birds of fire

Birds of Fire (1973) is the Mahavishnu Orchestra's second studio album and the last one performed by the original Mahavishnu Orchestra line-up, before Jean-Luc Ponty replaced Jerry Goodman on violin and Narada Michael Walden replaced Billy Cobham on drums. (See 1973 in music.)

align="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"\|Birds of Fire
lign="center" colspan="3"\|Birds of Fire
lign="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"\|LP by the Mahavishnu Orchestra
lign="left" valign="top"\|Released	colspan="2" valign="top"\|March 1973
lign="left" valign="top"\|Recorded	colspan="2" valign="top"\|August 1972
lign="left" valign="top"\|Genre	colspan="2" valign="top"\|Jazz-rock fusion
lign="left" valign="top"\|Length	colspan="2" valign="top"\|39 min 53 s
lign="left" valign="top"\|Record label	colspan="2" valign="top"\|Columbia Records
lign="left" valign="top"\|Producer	colspan="2" valign="top"\|Mahavishnu Orchestra
gcolor="orange" colspan="3"\|Professional reviews
lign="left" valign="top"\|RollingStone	valign="top" align=center\|Favorable	valign="top"\|link
lign="left" valign="top"\|AMG	valign="top" align=center\|5/5	valign="top"\|link
gcolor="orange" colspan="3"\|Mahavishnu Orchestra Chronology
align="top"\|The Inner Mounting Flame (1971)	valign="top"\|Birds Of Fire (1973)	valign="top"\|Apocalypse (1974)

The back cover of the LP features a poem entitled "Revelation" by Sri Chinmoy. A remastered version of the album, on CD, was released in 2000 by Sony Music Entertainment. It features a facsimile of the LP cover, a new set of liner notes by Bill Milkowski, as well as photographs of the band. John McLaughlin decided to cover the Miles Davis song "Miles Beyond" in Birds of Fire. The Mahavishnu Orchestra's previous album, The Inner Mounting Flame, consisted solely of original compositions.

Trivia

The rock band They Might Be Giants borrowed the song title "Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love" for a song on their album Flood. The songs are only related by title. The Mahavishnu Orchestra song is simply a very short instrumental jam interlude between "Celestial Terrestrial Commuters" and "Thousand Island Park", while the They Might Be Giants song is a literal interpretation of the lyrics, describing sapphire bullets fired from a revolver.

Personnel

Track listing

Birds Of Fire (McLaughlin) – 5:50
Miles Beyond (Miles Davis) – 4:47
Celestial Terrestrial Commuters (McLaughlin) – 2:54
Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love (McLaughlin) – 0:24
Thousand Island Park (McLaughlin) – 3:23
Hope (McLaughlin) – 1:59
One Word (McLaughlin) – 9:57
Sanctuary (McLaughlin) – 5:05
Open Country Joy (McLaughlin) – 3:56
Resolution (McLaughlin) – 2:09

External links

Sri Chinmoy Poetry: Revelation

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