ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Mahavishnu Orchestra, "Dream"

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Mahavishnu Orchestra, "Dream"

This is what I listened to almost every day when I was 14+. Billy Cobham's finest hour I think is the duet he has with McLaughlin in the mid section. He is a horrifyingly good drummer.

But the truly wonderful part is when the band falls back into a loping funk based on the second section of the tune, as if a fever had broken (towards the end of the following):

2 comments:

Henry Warwick said...: Never understood why they had that bass player. He wasn't in the same league as the rest of the band, Keeping up with Cobham is nearly impossible, and Jan Hammer could play his parts with his left hand. If Hammer wasn't so gung-ho on the Fender Rhodes and played something like the RMI, this would have been even more obvious. I sometimes wonder what Mahavishnu would have sounded like with say, Hugh Hopper...; October 11, 2012 at 8:55 PM
Unknown said...: Yes,that portion around 7:40 still evokes the same emotional release after 47 years; March 2, 2019 at 5:32 PM

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Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. They have collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Justin Guariglia, Olafur Eliasson, and Pharrell Williams. Morton co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future’s Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. They are the author of the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by Jennifer Walshe. Morton has written All Art Is Ecological (Penguin, 2021), Spacecraft (Bloomsbury, 2021), Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), 8 other books and 250 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Morton’s work has been translated into 10 languages. In 2014 they gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory.

“Outstanding.”
—Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes

“Dark ecology has the potential to be the punk rock or experimental pop of ecological thinking.”
—Kasino A4

“It isn’t [nature] itself that needs trashing — we’re doing a fine job of that already; it’s our way of thinking about it that needs to be structurally realigned ... it's an important book that, in a scant 205 pages of main text ... frames a debate that no doubt will be carried on for years to come.”
—Vince Carducci, Pop Matters

“He practices what he theorizes: nothing is wasted in his argumentation.”
—Emmanouil Aretoulakis, Synthesis

“Picking up where his most obvious predecessors, Gregory Bateson and Felix Guattari, left off, Morton understands mental ecology as the ground zero of ecological thinking, as that which must be redressed before anything else and above all. Morton goes beyond both his forebears, however, in repairing the rift between science and the humanities, which the Enlightenment opened up and against which Romanticism reacted. Perhaps most pleasantly surprising, given its erudition, is that in its stylistic elegance The Ecological Thought is as satisfying to read as it is necessary to ponder.”
—Vince Carducci

ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Mahavishnu Orchestra, "Dream"

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