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Birds of Fire

by Mahavishnu Orchestra

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Overall Rating: 2.7282 Birds of Fire is ranked overall as 2.7282 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 4.0000 Birds of Fire has an avg. critic score of 4.0000 out of 4 stars

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McLaughlin and company have been playing as a unit for a little more than a year as of this writing, but from the sound of their most recent performances and especially the newBirds Of Fireit seems they are as attuned to each other as a group of five musicians are ever going to get. ...more

PopMatters

After appearing on Miles Davis' landmark opus Bitches Brew , the 30-year-old British-born guitar wizard known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin birthed his own band and christened it The Mahavishnu Orchestra. ...more

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Emboldened by the popularity of Inner Mounting Flame among rock audiences, the first Mahavishnu Orchestra set out to further define and refine its blistering jazz-rock direction in its second -- and, no thanks to internal feuding, last -- studio album. ...more

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