John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension: To the One | CD review

(Abstract Logix)This McLaughlin quartet is due for three May dates in the UK, and the repertoire here emerged from what the guitarist is describing as an imaginative renaissance for him in 2009. Doubters might initially hear on this set much the same mix of cascading runs, percussion pyrotechnics and grandiloquent climaxes as has usually featured in McLaughlin's fusion work – but there's more to it here, in both the playing and the composing. His powerfully supportive Anglo-French partners (Ga...

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