Floating Point

Floating Point
Studio album by John McLaughlin
Released	May 20, 2008 (2008-05-20)
Recorded	April 2007
Genre	Jazz
Label	Abstract Logix
Producer	John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin chronology
Industrial Zen (2006) Floating Point (2008) Five Peace Band Live (2009)

Floating Point is an album by John McLaughlin, released in 2008 through the record label Abstract Logix.^[1] The album reached number fourteen on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart.^[2]

Track listing[]

All tracks composed by John McLaughlin

1. "Abbaji (For Alla Rakha)" – 9:01
2. "Raju" – 8:21
3. "Maharina" – 6:09
4. "Off the One" – 6:55
5. "The Voice" – 9:19
6. "Inside Out" – 8:30
7. "1 4 U" – 7:07
8. "Five Peace Band" – 7:06

Personnel[]

• John McLaughlin – guitar synthesizer, guitar (2, 4, 6, 8)
• Hadrien Feraud – bass guitar
• Louis Banks – keyboards
• Ranjit Barot – drums
• Sivamani – percussion, konokol (6)
• George Brooks – soprano saxophone (1)
• Debashish Bhattacharya – Hindustani slide guitar (2)
• Shashank Subramanyam – bamboo flute (4)
• Shankar Mahadevan – voice (5)
• U. Rajesh – electric mandolin (6)
• Naveen Kumar – bamboo flute (7)
• Niladri Kumar – sitar (8)

Reception[]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
All About Jazz	[3]

Michael G. Nastos of AllMusic calls the album "a surprisingly fine effort, ebbing and flowing from track to track, with McLaughlin's high-level musicianship shining through, same as it ever was."^[1] John Kelman in All About Jazz wrote "One of the most fluent, evocative and powerful albums in a career filled with high points" and concludes "McLaughlin's Indian friends may not have jazz in their blood the way it is in the guitarist's, but by approaching unmistakably western-informed music with an eastern mindset, they make Floating Point an album that, in McLaughlin's lengthy discography, is one of his most successful fusion records".^[3]

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