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✿ John McLaughlin -- Music Spoken Here ✿ Though this fitfully inspired yet always intelligently musical record is an electric album, John McLaughlin is more often heard on acoustic guitar in something resembling his electric manner, along with more pronounced classical and flamenco influence. This quintet, along with bass and drum, contained two keyboard player, Francois Couturier and the noted classical pianist Katia Labèque (who was McLaughlin's companion). Labeque, seated at a Synclavier and a grand piano, has acres of technique and almost no feeling for jazz, though she is adept at providing moody backdrop, and her rapid-fire synth runs and Jarrett-like etudes on the Steinway aren't too far away stylistically from McLaughlin's helter-skelter flurrie. In a continued homage to McLaughlin's once and future employer Miles Davi, Blues for L.W. brazenly quotes Blues for Pablo, and sometimes the music texturally resembles the heavily synthesized things that Miles would soon be putting out. Track Listing 01 Aspan (McLaughlin) -- 5:42 02 Blues for L.W. (McLaughlin) -- 6:21 03 The Translators (McLaughlin) -- 2:38 04 Honky-tonk Haven (Arede) -- 4:08 05 Viene Clareando (McLaughlin) -- 0:32 06 David (McLaughlin) -- 7:47 07 Negative Ions (McLaughlin) -- 3:52 08 Brise de Coeur (McLaughlin) -- 5:20 09 Loro (Egberto Gismonti) -- 2:11 Credits Tommy Campbell -- Drums Jean Paul Celea -- Bass (Acoustic) François Couturier -- Piano, Fender Rhode, Prophet 5 Katia Labèque -- Piano, Synclavier John McLaughlin -- Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Producer Laurent Peyron -- Assistant Engineer Jean Louis Rizet -- Engineer .

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