CARLOS SANTANA / MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN Love Devotion Surrender UNPLAYED
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CARLOS SANTANA / MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN Love Devotion Surrender UNPLAYED
CARLOS SANTANA / MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLINLove Devotion Surrender
UK CBS (S 69037) FIRST PRESSING (July 1973)
BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL COPY - POSSIBLY NEVER BEEN PLAYED
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE SOLID ORANGE CBS LABELS
MATRIX: S69037 A1 / 69037 B1
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT GATEFOLD SLEEVE PRINTED BY “Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., England”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL DIE-CUT INNER SLEEVE WITH UK PATENT NUMBER AND “MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN” PRINTED IN BLACK
A hopelessly misunderstood record in its time by Santana fans -- they were still reeling from the radical direction shift toward jazz on Caravanserai and praying it was an aberration -- it was greeted by Santana devotees with hostility, contrasted with kindness from major-league critics like Robert Palmer.
To hear this recording in the context of not only Carlos Santana's development as a guitarist, but as the logical extension of the music of John Coltrane and Miles Davis influencing rock musicians -- McLaughlin, of course, was a former Davis sideman -- this extension makes perfect sense in the post-Sonic Youth, post-rock era.
With the exception of Coltrane's "Naima" and McLaughlin's "Meditation," this album consists of merely three extended guitar jams played on the spiritual ecstasy tip -- both men were devotees of guru Shri Chinmoy at the time.
The assembled band included members of Santana's band and the Mahavishnu Orchestra in Michael Shrieve, Billy Cobham, Doug Rauch, Armando Peraza, Jan Hammer (playing drums!), and Don Alias.
But it is the presence of the revolutionary jazz organist Larry Young -- a colleague of McLaughlin's in Tony Williams' Lifetime band -- that makes the entire project gel. He stands as the great communicator harmonically between the two very different guitarists whose ideas contrasted enough to complement one another in the context of Young's aggressive approach to keep the entire proceeding in the air.
In the acknowledgement section of Coltrane's "A Love Supreme," which opens the album, Young creates a channel between Santana's riotous, transcendent, melodic runs and McLaughlin's rapid-fire machine-gun riffing.
Young' double-handed striated chord voicings offered enough for both men to chew on, leaving free-ranging territory for percussive effects to drive the tracks from underneath. Check "Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord," which was musically inspired by Bobby Womack's "Breezing" and dynamically foreshadowed by Pharoah Sanders' read of it, or the insanely knotty yet intervallically transcendent "The Life Divine," for the manner in which Young's organ actually speaks both languages simultaneously.
Young is the person who makes the room for the deep spirituality inherent in these sessions to be grasped for what it is: the interplay of two men who were not merely paying tribute to Coltrane, but trying to take his ideas about going beyond the realm of Western music to communicate with the language of the heart as it united with the cosmos.
After four decades, Love Devotion Surrender still sounds completely radical and stunningly, movingly beautiful
Side 1:
A Love Supreme (7:48)
Naima (3:09)
The Life Divine (9:30)
Side 2:
Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord (15:45)
Meditation (2:45)
LABELS: MINT
A pristine set of labels - no spindle traces or any signs of use
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both surfaces are unmarked and shine like-new
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
This previously unplayed copy delivers practically flawless sound throughout and sounds stunning - one or two light ticks were noted - nothing really - but I did not clean this copy as it looks so immaculate so these will no doubt disappear after a clean/few spins - the cleanest copy I have heard and a fantastic piece of work which is very highly recommended indeed
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Apart from some storage fading to the spine the gatefold is crisp, sharp and fresh
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