The Inner Mounting Flame is Mahavishnu Orchestra's first studio album, released in 1971 and consisting solely of original compositions by John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin (musician)

John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer...

.

The track "You Know, You Know" was sampled in Massive Attack's

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 "One Love", Mos Def's

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 "Kalifornia", Black Sheep

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's single "Similak Child", David Sylvian

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's "I Surrender", Cecil Otter's "Rebel Yellow" and Blahzay Blahzay's

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 "Intro" from Blah Blah Blah

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album.

The intro for "Noonward Race" was written for the full band and not just as a guitar-and-drums duet as heard on the album. During the recording of the piece, a long-standing tension between Rick Laird and Jerry Goodman boiled over into a full brawl, with the two of them knocking Jan Hammer and his keyboards over during the struggle. McLaughlin and Cobham continued to play at full volume during the entire altercation, and McLaughlin liked the effect so much he instructed Laird, Goodman, and Hammer to sit out while he comped behind Cobham's solo later in the song.

A remaster

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ed version of the album, on CD, was released in 1998 by Sony Music Entertainment

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. It features a facsimile of the LP front cover, a new set of liner notes

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 by Bob Belden

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, as well as many photographs of the band.

Track listing

All tracks composed by John McLaughlin.

1. "Meeting of the Spirits" – 6:52
2. "Dawn" – 5:10
3. "The Noonward Race" – 6:28
4. "A Lotus On Irish Streams" – 5:39
5. "Vital Transformation" – 6:16
6. "The Dance of Maya" – 7:17
7. "You Know You Know" – 5:07
8. "Awakening" – 3:32

Personnel

• John McLaughlin
  John McLaughlin (musician)
  John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer...
  
  : guitar
  Guitar
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• Rick Laird
  Rick Laird
  Richard Quentin 'Rick' Laird is a jazz musician, born on 5 February 1941. He is a bass player best known for his place in The Mahavishnu Orchestra....
  
  : bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• 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
  Drum kit
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  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
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• Jan Hammer
  Jan Hammer
  Jan Hammer is a composer, pianist and keyboardist. He first gained his most visible audience while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 1970s, as well as his film scores for television and film including "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s...
  
  : keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , organ
  Organ (music)
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• Jerry Goodman
  Jerry Goodman
  Jerry Goodman is an American violinist best known for playing electric violin in the bands The Flock and the jazz fusion Mahavishnu Orchestra. Goodman actually began his musical career as The Flock's roadie before joining the band on violin. Trained in the conservatory, both of his parents were...
  
  : violin
  Violin
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• Don Puluse: engineer

Charts

Album

Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1972	Jazz Albums	11
1972	Pop Albums	89

External links

• Aspiration - by Sri Chinmoy