Mahavishnu is an album by the Mahavishnu Orchestra, released in 1984 by Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...

. In 1980's, McLaughlin reformed the Mahavishnu Orchestra for release of the two albums Mahavishnu and Adventures in Radioland

Adventures in Radioland

Adventures in Radioland is a 1987 album by the John McLaughlin-headed group Mahavishnu, released by the Relativity label which represents McLauglin's interest in electronic technology...

. This band's overall sound was radically different from the original Mahavishnu Orchestra, in particular because of McLaughlin's extensive use of the Synclavier

Synclavier

The Synclavier System was an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation, manufactured by New England Digital Corporation, Norwich, VT. The original design and development of the Synclavier prototype occurred at Dartmouth College with the collaboration of...

 synthesiser system.

Track listing

• All Songs Written By John McLaughlin, except where noted.

1. "Radio-Activity" – 6:52
2. "Nostalgia" – 5:56
3. "Nightriders" – 3:47
4. "East Side West Side" – 4:46
5. "Clarendon Hills" – 6:03 (Bill Evans)
6. "Jazz" – 1:43
7. "The Unbeliever" – 2:47
8. "Pacific Express" – 6:30
9. "When Blue Turns Gold" – 3:19

Mahavishnu Orchestra

• John McLaughlin
  John McLaughlin (musician)
  John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer...
  
   - synclavier II, digital guitar
• Mitchel Forman
  Mitchel Forman
  Mitchel Forman is a jazz and fusion keyboard player currently residing in Southern California.-Biography & Music Career:...
  
   - keyboards
• Jonas Hellborg
  Jonas Hellborg
  Jonas Hellborg is a Swedish bass guitarist. He has collaborated with John McLaughlin, Ustad Sultan Khan, Fazal Qureshi, Bill Laswell, Shawn Lane, Jens Johansson, Michael Shrieve, V. Selvaganesh, Mattias IA Eklundh and Buckethead....
  
   - bass guitars
• Bill Evans
  Bill Evans (saxophonist)
  Bill Evans is an American jazz saxophonist. His father was a classical piano prodigy and until junior high school Evans studied classical clarinet. Early in his studies he was able to hear such artists as Sonny Stitt and Stan Getz live at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago...
  
   - tenor & soprano saxophone, flute
• Billy Cobham
  Billy Cobham
  William C. Cobham is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, who has called Switzerland home since the late 1970s....
  
   - drums, percussion

Additional Personnel

• Danny Gottlieb: Percussion
• Hari Prasad Chaurasia: (Uncredited) Flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  
• Zakir Hussain: (Uncredited) Tabla
  Tabla
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• Katia Labeque: Additional Piano & Synthesizers

Production

• Executive Producer: Albert Koski
• Arranged & Produced By John McLaughlin
• Engineered By Jean Louis Rizet; assisted by Laurent Peyron
• Mixed By Brian Risner & Jean-Louis Riset