Between Nothingness & Eternity

Between Nothingness & Eternity
Live album by
The Mahavishnu Orchestra
ReleasedNovember 1973 (1973-11)
RecordedAugust 18, 1973
VenueWollman Rink (Central Park, New York City)
GenreJazz fusion
Length42:24
43:17 (2011 remix)
LabelColumbia
Producer
  • Murray Krugman
  • John McLaughlin
The Mahavishnu Orchestra chronology
Birds of Fire
(1973) 		Between Nothingness & Eternity
(1973) 		Apocalypse
(1974)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideB+[2]
Sputnikmusic4/5[3]
All About Jazz(favorable)[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[6]

Between Nothingness & Eternity is the first live album by jazz fusion band Mahavishnu Orchestra, released in November 1973 by Columbia Records.[1] According to the Mahavishnu Orchestra Gigs listing by Walter Kolosky, it was recorded live at the Schaefer Music Festival, held in Central Park, New York, on August 17 and 18, 1973,[7] even though available recordings indicate that all of the material from the album was taken from the second night only.[8] Originally, Mahavishnu Orchestra's third album was to be a studio effort, recorded in June 1973 at Trident in London, but was scrapped during the final days of the project; the live album, containing versions of three of the original six tracks, was released instead as the last album during the period of the original line-up of the band. The original studio album was released in 1999 as The Lost Trident Sessions.

Between Nothingness & Eternity was included in 2011 as part of The Complete Columbia Albums Collection boxed set, along with the other albums by the first line-up of the band, including The Lost Trident Sessions. This new version was a new different mix with an additional minute of music on "Sister Andrea". The boxed set also contained an album called Unreleased Tracks from Between Nothingness & Eternity, which contains other selections from the two Central Park shows.

Track listing

Original vinyl

Side one
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Trilogy: Sunlit Path/La Mere de la Mer/Tomorrow's Story Not the Same"John McLaughlin12:16
2."Sister Andrea"Jan Hammer8:45
Side two
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Dream"McLaughlin21:24

"The Complete Columbia Albums Collection" version

No.TitleMusicLength
1."Trilogy: Sunlit Path/La Mere de la Mer/Tomorrow's Story Not the Same" 12:03
2."Sister Andrea" 9:53
3."Dream"McLaughlin21:22

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1974) Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[9] 42
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[10] 48
US Billboard 200[11] 41

References

  1. ^ a b Eder, Bruce. Between Nothingness & Eternity at AllMusic
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: M". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 2, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ Campbell, Hernan M. (October 12, 2012). "Review: Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness & Eternity | Sputnikmusic". sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved April 10, 2013.
  4. ^ Kolosky, Walter (November 16, 2002). "Mahavishnu Orchestra: Between Nothingness and Eternity". allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
  5. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 135. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  6. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 922. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  7. ^ Kolosky, Walter. "...Welcome Readers of 'Power, Passion and Beauty' - The Special Edition eBook 2013... - Walter Kolosky". walterkolosky.com. Retrieved January 1, 2014. Aug 17-18 Schaefer Music Festival – Central Park New York City, NY. The live album Between Nothingness & Eternity is recorded
  8. ^ "...Bathed in Lighting - John McLaughlin - Archive Releases". Retrieved November 13, 2014.
  9. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  10. ^ "Top RPM Albums: Issue 4959a". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved October June 15, 2024.
  11. ^ "Mahavishnu Orchestra John McLaughlin Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved October June 15, 2024.
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