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Carlos Santana / Mahavishnu John McLaughlin – Love Devotion Surrender (Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing
Sony / CBS Records (1973)

4.00 out of 5 based on 1 customer rating
(1 customer review )

$35.00

Hard To Find Actual 1973 Japan First Pressing In Beautiful Condition! Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover Includes 4-Page Insert. Featuring Carlos Santana, John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Jan Hammer & Others Performing Spiritual Jazz / Rock Fusion Music.

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SKU: SOPL-200 Categories: Japanese Pressings, Jazz, Rock Tags: John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Santana
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Hard To Find Actual 1973 Japan First Pressing In Beautiful Condition! Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover Includes 4-Page Insert. Featuring Carlos Santana, John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Jan Hammer & Others Performing Spiritual Jazz / Rock Fusion Music In The Presence Of Their Guru, Sri Chinmoy.

Condition – Vinyl: EXCELLENT! Appears to have hardly ever been played!

Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT!

Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.

Side 1:
A Love Supreme
Naima
The Life Divine

Side 2:
Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord
Meditation

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Japan

Condition

NM / EX

Format

LP

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1 review for Carlos Santana / Mahavishnu John McLaughlin – Love Devotion Surrender (Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing
Sony / CBS Records (1973)

  1. geoffofdunnlirium@hotmail.com
    4 out of 5

    AMG – June 19, 2019

    After four decades, Love Devotion Surrender still sounds completely radical and stunningly, movingly beautiful. 4 ½ Stars 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. 4 ½ Stars

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