The Inner Source
by George Duke
- 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
- Au-Right (3:27)
- Love Reborn (7:25)
- Peace (7:39)
- My Soul (4:37)
- Feels So Good (7:10)
- Manya (3:26)
- Sweet Bite (3:32)
- The Followers (5:15)
- The Inner Source (6:07)
- Life (5:39)
- Some Time Ago (5:00)
- So There You Go (5:18)
- Solus (9:05)
- Nigerian Numberuma (2:49)
- Twenty-Five (4:54)
- 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