Track Listing

1. For Jaco
2. New Blues Old Bruise
3. Wayne's Way
4. Just So Only More So
5. To Bop Or Not To Bop
6. Dear Dalai Lama
7. Senor CS
8. Mother Nature

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98154 in Music
• Released on: 2006-06-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 61 minutes

Customer Reviews

well impressed - the fire has not gone out....
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 music 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.

Return to form
Industrial Zen is the best thing McLaughlin's recorded in ages. It combines the fire of Mahavishnu with the Eastern intrigue of Shakti and more. A great album!

A Welcome Return To Fusion
A Welcome Return To Fusion... was he far away anyway?

A brilliant CD going from Mahavishnu intensity to beautiful and passionate. There's even a great chilled out song which I could imagine appearing on a Cafe Del Mar compilation CD. Nice one John... A true artist.

Some very very intense improvisation going on at times and a guest appearance by Eric Johnson but no duelling guitar solos.

Fantastic stuff.