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Perhaps it really is possible to keep building something new out of assimilated influences and experiences. This isn't a new or original comment to make about JM, but this record makes you see it afresh. I realise I have played it four times since I got my hands on it 24 hours ago, which is an extraordinary thing to do when you have around five thousand other records on your shelves to choose from...

There's some fierce stuff on this album - notably the angry battle between John and his rhythm section in the middle of 'Dear Dalai Lama' (at least, JM has admitted to being fired up about the musicmore… in recent interviews); also some tender and reflective material such as the final song (and for a change, it really is a song) 'Mother Nature'. Throughout, it is very possible to see elements of Mahavishnu, Heart of Things, One Truth Band and everything else, but here incorporating drum-loops, synthesizers, and other updated and uprated components we have not really met before.

JM has been quoted many times in recent months as saying that he was going to get panned by critics for his radical approach with this album - I'm not sure he has really taken things as far as he was leading people to expect (I was rather wondering whether we would be hearing pure drums n'bass or something), but even if this is not too many miles from his multifarious roots, I think it is a tremendously strong album, and very welcome.

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Music > Albums

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CD

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Retail

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Cover Info:

Title:

John McLaughlin - Industrial Zen (2006) Retail CD

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Front

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1418 x 1396 px

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