The Inner Source

by George Duke

The Inner Source cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: MPS
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:28:10
  • Community rating: 3.6/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Operating as a transitional double-album, this release documents the keyboardist moving away from acoustic post-bop into the expansive, synthesizer-driven electric fusion that would define his later career. Recorded in Germany, the expansive sessions experiment heavily with Latin rhythms, Fender Rhodes textures, and moments of intense avant-garde dissonance. It is an incredibly diverse, deeply exploratory period piece showcasing his rapidly expanding compositional toolkit.

Genres

Descriptors: Fusion, improvisation, atmospheric, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Au-Right (3:27)
  2. Love Reborn (7:25)
  3. Peace (7:39)
  4. My Soul (4:37)
  5. Feels So Good (7:10)
  6. Manya (3:26)
  7. Sweet Bite (3:32)
  8. The Followers (5:15)
  9. The Inner Source (6:07)
  10. Life (5:39)
  11. Some Time Ago (5:00)
  12. So There You Go (5:18)
  13. Solus (9:05)
  14. Nigerian Numberuma (2:49)
  15. Twenty-Five (4:54)
  16. Always Constant (6:47)

Credits

  • George Duke - primary artist, keyboards, trombone, conductor, piano, electric piano [rhodes, wurlitzer], written-by, keyboard
  • John Heard - bass, electric bass, violin [amplified bass violin], written-by
  • Armando Peraza - congas
  • Dick Berk - drums, percussion, written-by
  • Luis Gasca - flugelhorn, trumpet
  • Jerome Richardson - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
  • James Leary - violin [bass], written-by
  • Sergio Mihanovich - written-by

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