I Sing the Body Electric
by Weather Report
- Type: Album
- Released: 26 May 1972
- Label: Columbia
- Country: United States
- Length: 46:58
- Community rating: 3.86/5 from 3 ratings
Artists on this release: Andrew White, Hubert Laws, Eric Gravatt, Ralph Towner, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, Miroslav Vitous, Dom Um Rom茫o
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Borrowing its title from both Walt Whitman and Ray Bradbury, Weather Report's sophomore effort is a startlingly experimental, highly atmospheric jazz-rock achievement. Featuring a massive, wildly chaotic live suite on its B-side, 'I Sing the Body Electric' balances intensely anxious, fiercely complex avant-garde improvisations with wonderfully surreal, deeply technical space-fusion.
Genres
Descriptors: Fusion, complex, space, technical, avant-garde
Tracklist
- Unknown Soldiers (7:57)
- The Moors (4:40)
- Crystal (7:16)
- Second Sunday In August (4:09)
- Vertical Invader / T. H. / Dr. Honoris Causa - Live (10:39)
- Surucucu - Live (7:41)
- Directions (4:34)
Credits
- Weather Report - primary artist
- Fred Swanson - artwork [cover]
- Jack Trompetter - artwork [cover]
- Miroslav Vitous - bass, written-by
- Roger Powell - consultant
- Ed Lee - design [cover]
- Eric Gravatt - drums, membranophone
- Susumu Satoh - engineer
- Wayne Tarnowski - engineer [recording], mixed by
- Andrew White - english horn
- Robert Devere - executive-producer
- Hubert Laws - flute
- Joe Zawinul - keyboards [electric, acoustic], written-by, keyboard
- Robert Hurwitz - liner notes
- Don Meehan - mixed by
- Dom Um Romao - percussion
- Shoviza Productions Inc. - producer
- Jolf - recorded by
- Wayne Shorter - reeds, written-by
- Wilmer Wise - trumpet [d trumpet], piccolo trumpet
- Ralph Towner - twelve-string guitar
- Chapman Roberts - vocals [singers]
- Joshie Armstrong - vocals [singers]
- Yolande Bavan - vocals [singers]