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Floating Point

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Recorded
  
April 2007

Label
  
Abstract Logix

Floating Point (2008)
  
To the One (2010)

Genre
  
Jazz

Producer
  
John McLaughlin

Released
  
May 20, 2008 (2008-05-20)

Floating Point is an album by John McLaughlin, released in 2008 through the record label Abstract Logix. The album reached number fourteen on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Abbaji (For Alla Rakha)" (McLaughlin) – 9:01
  2. "Raju" (McLaughlin) – 8:21
  3. "Maharina" (McLaughlin) – 6:09
  4. "Off the One" (McLaughlin) – 6:55
  5. "The Voice" (McLaughlin) – 9:19
  6. "Inside Out" (McLaughlin) – 8:30
  7. "1 4 U" (McLaughlin) – 7:07
  8. "Five Peace Band" (McLaughlin) – 7:06

Personnel

  • John McLaughlin: guitar synthesizer, guitar (2, 4, 6, 8)
  • Hadrien Feraud: bass guitar
  • Louis Banks: keyboards
  • Ranjit Barot: drums
  • Sivamani: percussion, konokol (6)
  • George Brooks: soprano saxophone (1)
  • Debashish Bhattacharya: Hindustani slide guitar (2)
  • Shashank: bamboo flute (4)
  • Shankar Mahadevan: voice (5)
  • U Rajesh: electric mandolin (6)
  • Naveen Kumar: bamboo flute (7)
  • Niladri Kumar: sitar (8)

    • Reception

    Michael G. Nastos of AllMusic calls the album "a surprisingly fine effort, ebbing and flowing from track to track, with McLaughlin's high-level musicianship shining through, same as it ever was." John Kelman in All About Jazz wrote "One of the most fluent, evocative and powerful albums in a career filled with high points" and concludes "McLaughlin's Indian friends may not have jazz in their blood the way it is in the guitarist's, but by approaching unmistakably western-informed music with an eastern mindset, they make Floating Point an album that, in McLaughlin's lengthy discography, is one of his most successful fusion records".

    References

    Floating Point Wikipedia
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