Mahavishnu Orchestra
Birds Of Fire
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1. Birds of Fire - (5:41)
2. Miles Beyond (Miles Davis) - (4:39)
3. Celestial Terrestrial Commuters - (2:35)
4. Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love - (0:22)
5. Thousand Island Park - (3:19)
6. Hope - (1:55)
7. One Word - (9:54)
8. Sanctuary - (5:01)
9. Open Country Joy - (3:52)
10. Resolution - (2:08)
Total time: 39:44
Jerry Goodman - violin
Jan Hammer - piano, electric piano, Moog
John McLaughlin - electric guitar
Rick Laird - electric bass
Billy Cobham - drums
Recorded at London & New York City, September & October 1972.
Produced by John McLaughlin.
All compositions by John McLaughlin.
REVELATION
No more my heart shall sob or grieve.
My days and nights dissolve in God's own Light.
Above the toil of life my soul
Is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite.
I have known the One and His secret Play;
And passed beyond the sea of Ignorance-Dream,
In tune with Him, I sport and sing,
I own the golden Eye of the Supreme.
Drunk deep of Immortality,
I am the root and boughs of a teeming vast.
My form I have known, and realised,
The Supreme and I are one-all we outlast.
© 1972 SRI CHINMOY LIGHTHOUSE
------------------- All-Music Guide Album --------------------
Rating : Best-of-Genre (First Pick)
Charts : Billboard #015, entered Feb 10, 1973, on charts 037 weeks
Album review by Walter Kolosky.
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