The Inner Mounting Flame
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| Studio album by Mahavishnu Orchestra | ||||
| Released | August 14, 1971 | |||
| Recorded | 1971 | |||
| Genre | Jazz fusion, progressive rock | |||
| Length | 45:30 | |||
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C.B.S. Columbia |
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| Producer | Mahavishnu Orchestra | |||
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| Allmusic |  |
| Robert Christgau | (A) |
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| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | |
The Inner Mounting Flame is the first studio album by multinational jazz-rock fusion band Mahavishnu Orchestra, released in August 1971 on Columbia Records. After their formation, the group performed several debut gigs before they entered the studio to record their first album featuring all original material written by guitarist John McLaughlin.
The track "You Know, You Know" was sampled in Massive Attack's "One Love", Mos Def's "Kalifornia", Black Sheep's single "Similak Child", David Sylvian's "I Surrender", Cecil Otter's "Rebel Yellow" and Blahzay Blahzay's "Intro" from Blah Blah Blah album. The band Gumball covered the song "Awakening" on their 1992 Wisconsin Hayride EP.
A remastered version of the album, on CD, was released in 1998 by Sony Music Entertainment. It features a facsimile of the LP front cover, a new set of liner notes by Bob Belden, as well as many photographs of the band. "The Inner Mounting Flame" was included in 2011 as part of "The Complete Columbia Albums Collection" boxset, along with the other albums by the first line-up of the band, including "The Lost Trident Sessions". This version includes a version of "The Noonward Race" recorded live at the Mar Y Sol Pop Festival 3 April 1972. That version was previously available on the compilation album Mar Y Sol: The First International Puerto Rico Pop Festival, but the version included in the boxset is two minutes longer.
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