The Inner Mounting Flame

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The Inner Mounting Flame
The Inner Mounting Flame cover
Studio album by Mahavishnu Orchestra
Released August, 1971
Recorded 1971
Genre Jazz-rock fusion
Progressive Rock
Length 45:30
Label Records
Producer Mahavishnu Orchestra
Professional reviews
Mahavishnu Orchestra chronology
The Inner Mounting Flame
(1971)		 Birds of Fire
(1972)

The Inner Mounting Flame (1971) is the Mahavishnu Orchestra's first studio album. (See 1971 in music.)

The back cover of the LP features a poem entitled "Aspiration" by Sri Chinmoy.

A remastered version of the album, on CD, was released in 1998 by Sony Music Entertainment. It features a facsimile of the LP front cover, a new set of liner notes by Bob Belden, as well as many photographs of the band.

The Inner Mounting Flame consists solely of original compositions by John McLaughlin.

The track "You Know You Know" was sampled in Massive Attack's "One Love".

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All tracks composed by John McLaughlin.

  1. "Meeting Of The Spirits" – 6:52
  2. "Dawn" – 5:10
  3. "Noonward Race" – 6:28
  4. "A Lotus On Irish Streams" – 5:39
  5. "Vital Transformation" – 6:16
  6. "The Dance Of Maya" – 7:17
  7. "You Know You Know" – 5:07
  8. "Awakening" – 3:32

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