Mahavishnu Orchestra-Between Nothingness & Eternity (1973)

 


Artist:  Mahavishnu Orchestra

Title: Between Nothingness & Eternity

Label: Columbia

Format: LP

Catalog Number: KC 32766

Year of Release: 1973 Pitman Pressing

Country and Year of Edition: US 1973

Sell Price: $5.69

Sell Date: 4/22/26

Condition: VG+/VG

Discogs Last Sold: 4/18/26 VG+/VG $11.49

Low: $4.00

Median: $9.09

Average: $11.50

High: $39.99

Current low price: $3.99 VG/VG

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 134

Have/Want: 5208/526

Where Sold: Findlay, OH

Time It Took To Sell:  2 years 

Where and When Bought: Whatnot lot

Gwiz-gau Grade:  A-

Sad To See It Go: No

Between Nothingness & Eternity was the first Mahavishnu Orchestra album I ever had.  I forgot how I first got initially but I have a couple copies right now that I got more recently.  One is a little beat up and this one was nicer.  Somehow I priced it seemingly low as it went well below the $9.09 median for a good shape copy.  Sometime that happens, but this is a fairly common album to find used.

As a kid I thought it was dull Jazz but I appreciate proto-fusion and Jazz Rock much more nowadays to the point I was looking forward to listening to it a few times when it sold.  I never really got my head full around the music of this musically dense artist beyond single plays.  This didn't have the chart run of the #15 Billboard Birds of Fire, but it peaked at #41 on a 14 week chart run, so that explains why so many copies are all over the place.  Several years out of Miles Davis Bitches Brew and being on the Rock circuit still gave access to a commercial audience in the 70's  that would be genre niche or critic ghetto today.

Side one is a 12 minute suite and a "short" 8 minute track  Side two's "Dream" is a one-sider over 21 minutes.  The record is live but you forget about it until the cheers conclude the record louder than they opened it as the quiet gong resonates over the surface noise and the full band gets to loud McLauglin guitar, Billy Cobham drums and Jerry Goodman violin.  Then you hear Jan Hammer on organ and all is well in the world.

A world made for speedy nat notes.


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