Natural Elements

by Shakti With John McLaughlin

Natural Elements cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1977
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 39:24
  • Community rating: 4.13/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Concluding their phenomenal trilogy of studio recordings, John McLaughlin's acoustic ensemble reaches dizzying new heights of cross-cultural musical interplay. 'Natural Elements' masterfully bridges highly complex jazz fusion with incredibly fast, deeply spiritual Indian classical music, yielding profoundly energetic, amazingly technical acoustic improvisations full of playful warmth.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, technical, instrumental, acoustic, fusion, virtuosic, percussive, improvisational

Tracklist

  1. Mind Ecology (with John McLaughlin) (5:47)
  2. Face To Face (with John McLaughlin) (5:57)
  3. Come On Baby Dance With Me (with John McLaughlin) (1:56)
  4. The Daffodill And The Eagle (with John McLaughlin) (7:00)
  5. Happiness Is Being Together (with John McLaughlin) (4:27)
  6. Bridge Of Sighs (with John McLaughlin) (3:52)
  7. Get Down And Sruti (with John McLaughlin) (7:00)
  8. Peace Of Mind (with John McLaughlin) (3:22)

Credits

  • Shakti - primary artist
  • John McLaughlin - primary artist, acoustic guitar, vocals, producer, composed by
  • Paula Scher - design
  • Jean Ristori - engineer
  • Vikku Vinayakram - ghatam, percussion [nal], kanjira [kanjeera], jew's harp [moorsing (juice harp)], vocals
  • John Alcorn - illustration [cover]
  • Joseph D'Anna - management
  • Nathan Weiss - management
  • Zakir Hussain - tabla, timbales, bongos, dholak, percussion [nal], triangle, vocals
  • Shankar - violin, viola, vocals, composed by

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