mc Laughlin

Essential: a masterpiece of fusion music.
« Natural Elements » is Shakti ultimate masterpiece. John Mc Laughlin shows once again his determination to bring jazz rock guitar on new territories.

This is a searing art rock monsterpiece dominated by a relentlessly coruscating lead guitar sonic attack as if played by a demonically possessed john mc laughlin, Flux is ex Babe Ruth, ex Motiffe, with lead guitar by john grimaldi before he joined Argent and worked on their prog masterpiece Circus. This LP is taken from a mono mastertape recorded on a BBC Mobile Unit at a live gig in 1973, a shocked Record Mirror journalist witnessed the concert and described it in a published Record Mirror review as ‘a new form of music’. Sound quality is great and this is a band in top form playing exactly what they want, in a zone a bit like King Crimsons Red, but with insane guitar leads that bludgeon the listener to death. The vocalist later joined italian prog rockers Flea On The Honey.

Christian Escoudé is part of this small family of jazz guitarists from the gypsy milieu, his talent has allowed him to play with the greatest as Mc Laughlin, Martial Solal, John Lewis. Some unpublished notes of the music of Django Reinhardt found in the family attic are at the origin of the idea of ​​this album. We discover tracks composed by Django, which have never been recorded or never played associated with compositions by Christian Escoudé and lyrics written by the singer Stephy Haik. Here is a new original album dedicated to the work of the great Django Reinhardt.