Credit for this featured CD : mnprogger
Based on a CD received from the collection bequeathed to Progressive Ears by the late Chris Buckley (Winkersnuff)
mnprogger's comments:
I am a Jean-Luc Ponty fan and I've seen him live I recall 4 times (2 Solo, 1 with Return to Forever, 1 with Jon Anderson). And I've heard some of his music, some on Vinyl, some from checking cds out from my public library. But I can't say I've heard "Cosmic Messenger" until hearing the cd copy I was given.
I enjoy a lot of this record. It's Jazz-Fusion or Jazz-Rock of course much like many other records from Jean-Luc Ponty. I hear a lot of Mahavishnu Orchestra, but with sort of a Spacey, Textured, Atmospheric side. This album was released in 1978. which Jazz-Fusion was still popular then, but not as much as it had been a few years earlier.
Some of my favorite moments are the keys, which have at times a bit of a cinematic quality to them.
The opening title track, "Ethereal Mood," "Fake Paradise," "The Art of Happiness," and the at-times funky closing piece "Egocentric Molecules" are among my favorites.
I wonder a bit if Cosmic Messenger has music that had they continued on, Mahavishnu Orchestra themself would have written and recorded (with or maybe not-with Ponty), per it really sounds at times, so much like Mavavishnu Orchestra, I could have mistaken it for them.
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