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Carlos Santana John McLaughlin Love Devotion Surrender LP 180g Vinyl Mobile Fidelity MoFi MFSL USA

Carlos Santana John McLaughlin Love Devotion Surrender LP 180g Vinyl Mobile Fidelity MoFi MFSL USA Maximize
Artist: Santana
Title: Love Devotion Surrender
Catalog Number: MFSL1-536
Label: Columbia
Reissued by: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Barcode: 196588859014
Original release year: 1973
Reissue year: 2024
Number of discs: 1
Revolutions per minute: 33⅓ rpm
Disc size: 12"
Vinyl Weight Grade: 180gr
Limited Edition: Yes
Numbered Edition: Yes
Total Item Weight: 478gr
Pressing country: USA
For Market Release in: USA
Added to catalog on: September 29, 2024
Collection: MFSL Original Master Recording
Note: Never eligible for any further discounts
Vinyl Gourmet Club: No


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Unit Price: 48,20 €

Reference: MF331536GF

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Love Devotion Surrender is an album where Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin, along with exceptional musicians like Jan Hammer, Larry Young and Billy Cobham, pay homage to John Coltrane and higher levels of spirituality. A 'project band' made up of members of Santana's ensemble and the Mahavishnu Orchestra explore different visions and interpretations about Coltrane and meditation.

 

 

  • Limited Edition
  • Numbered Edition
  • 180 Gram High Definition Vinyl 
  • Pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing, USA
  • Mastering on MFSL Gain 2 Ultra Analog System
  • Mastered by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
  • Mastered from the Original Analog Master Tapes
  • Cut by Krieg Wunderlich & Rob LoVerde
  • Special Static Free & Dust Free Inner Sleeves
  • Deluxe Gatefold Cover

 

 

1973 Meeting of Santana and John McLaughlin Yields Spiritual Transcendence: Love Devotion Surrender Is Inspired by John Coltrane and a Quest for Enlightenment


Sourced from the Original Master Tapes and Pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing: Tones, Textures, and Notes Float Amid a Large, Open Soundstage on Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition 180g 33RPM LP


1/4" / 15 IPS analog master to DSD 64 to analog console to lathe


Two guitar giants. A band comprised of virtuosic instrumentalists. One shared goal. And one tremendous album. The only meeting of Santana and John McLaughlin on record, Love Devotion Surrender more than lives up to the promise offered by its principal creators. Based in divine faith, religious toleration, meditative intent, and the forward-thinking philosophy that music can take us closer to the truth, it is a spiritual journey. These enlightening concepts are reflected in the inspired playing of Santana and McLaughlin, who repeatedly hit a higher plane on this 1973 set.


Sourced from the original analog master tapes, housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in California, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition 180g LP of Love Devotion Surrender benefits from the reissue label’s painstaking engineering efforts. The windows on the record’s give-and-take passages, sustained notes, and varied textures are thrown open with palpable transparency and detail. Laden with delicate acoustic touches and gentle piano touches, as well as powerful staccato bursts and fast-paced percussion, Love Devotion Surrender contains a dynamic mix of tempos, tones, and contrasts crucial to its optimal enjoyment. This collectible edition brings those aspects to the fore with extraordinary realism.


In addition, the pinpoint imaging — Santana primarily on the left, McLaughlin on the right — invites you to picture the musicians in the act. You’ll sense a newfound freedom and naturalism to the playback, as well as black backgrounds and an openness that allow the widespread array of textures, atmospherics, echoes, and neo-psychedelic shapes to float in the air. Call it jamming guided by a higher power or surreal art brought together by time, circumstance, and purpose; there really is no other album completely like it.


Having each become a follower of Indian guru Sri Chinmoy, who wrote the album’s extensive liner-note essay and is seen in several jacket photos, Santana and McLaughlin began playing together in 1972. Both legends found themselves in the midst of personal and creative transition. Santana was moving away from rock-based songs in favor of exploratory jazz-rock. A contemporary of Miles Davis, McLaughlin had already achieved fame with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, then on the brink of collapse due to internal disagreements.


On Love Devotion Surrender, the duo pools its interests in discovery and transcendence into gorgeous music steeped in improvisational lines, ecstatic chords, and sensitive organ accompaniment courtesy of the record’s best-kept secret, Larry Young. The former Blue Note recording artist had already connected with McLaughlin in the Tony Williams Lifeline, which began as a power trio and turned jazz on its head with its groundbreaking 1969 debut. Young’s ear for melody and fearless penchant for chasing down adventurous fusion leads — not to mention keeping pace with the headliners, no small feat — make him an ideal foil for the proto post-rock happening throughout.


Credited under his Muslim name, Khalid Yasin, Young isn’t the only standout. Several Santana contemporaries — bassist Doug Rauch, drummers Mike Shrieve and Billy Cobham, percussionists Mingo Lewis and Armando Peraza — play alongside Mahavishnu Orchestra member Jan Hammer and Tony Williams Lifeline drummer Don Alias, who already had credits on Davis’ seminal Bitches Brew and On the Corner. Complemented by Santana and McLaughlin, the ensemble sounds and feels unstoppable.


In addition to the band’s search for sacred soulfulness, the common denominator throughout is John Coltrane, who engaged in similar pursuits during the 1960s. Two of the five compositions — “A Love Supreme,” “Naima” — are interpretations of Coltrane standards while the lynchpin, a nearly 16-minute investigation into the traditional “Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord,” integrates free-form structure, jazz phrasing, gospel mysticism, cross-cut dynamics, and tonal shaping into one of the most uplifting pieces of music you’ll ever hear. The same can be said for the entirety of Love Devotion Surrender. Bow down.

 

 

Musicians:


Carlos Santana - guitar
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - guitar, piano
Khalid Yasin (Larry Young) - organ
Armando Peraza - congas
Billy Cobham - drums
Don Alias - drums
Jan Hammer - drums
Doug Rauch - bass
Mike Shrieve - drums


Track Listing:


Side A
01. A Love Supreme
02. Naima
03. The Life Divine


Side B
04. Let Us Go into the House of the Lord
05. Meditation

 

Click here to listen to samples on YouTube.com

 

 

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