Atmospheres Featuring Clive Stevens - Voyage To Uranus(1974 USA Jazz Rock/Fusion)Full Album

Atmospheres biography ATMOSPHERES is a project by Clive Stevens, who plays mostly pedal-effect-altered woodwind instruments, but his co-musicians make it one of the most impressive and prestigious line-ups ever in the world of JR/F, where he's probably the lesser-known individual. Indeed, not only is there OREGON's Ralph Towner (keyboards, acoustic guitar and devices) and MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA's Billy Cobham and Rick Laird (drums & bass respectively), but also the guitar pair of John Abercrombie and Steve Khan - can you imagine? The line-up is completed by percussionist Harry Wilkinson, and the first album was recorded in 73 and released in early 74 on Capitol with an uncommitting artwork sleeve. The result is a steaming JR/F that sometimes shifts from improvisation to dissonant free jazz, but this extreme is occasional. A second album "Voyage To Uranus" was released at the end of 74, but the awesome line-up couldn't be kept, so only Towner and Abercrombie remained in an otherwise fairly different ensemble. Musically however, this second album was equally comparable with the first album, still dishing the same red-hot fusion. Sadly that second album would signal the end of the group. Clive Stevens would not record another album as a leader until around the close of the century, when he would release two within a couple of years of each other. Sadly the two ATMOSPHERES albums have never (as of early 2010) not received a CD reissue, which is a complete shame given the all-star line-up of the first LP. Tracklist Side 1 A1 - Shifting Phases 00:00 A2 - Culture Release 06:45 A3 - Inner Spaces And Outer Places 13:35 A4 - Un Jour Dans Le Monde 18:47 Side 2 B1 - Voyage To Uranus 23:29 B2 - Electric Impulse From The Heart 29:19 B3 - Water Rhythms 32:44 B4 - Return To The Earth 40:29 Congas, Timbales, Percussion – David Earl Johnson Drums – Michael Thabo Carvin Electric Bass – Stu Woods Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – John Abercrombie Electric Piano, Clavinet, Twelve-String Guitar [Acoustic 12 String] – Ralph Towner Tenor Saxophone [Electric], Soprano Saxophone, Flute [Alto], Effects [Echoplex, Wah Wah Pedal] – Clive Stevens