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Dark Magus: Live At Carnegie Hall 1974

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Miles Davis Format: Vinyl
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Dark Magus Anticipates Developments in Jungle, Noise, and Drum 'n' Bass Music: Funky, Ferocious, Free-Form Miles Davis Double Album Is an Exhilarating Jazz-Rock TripOn Domestic Vinyl for the First Time: Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition 180g 33RPM 2LP Set Presents 1974 Performances with Absorbing Detail, Color, and EnergyIt's safe to assume no one in the audience at Carnegie Hall on March 30, 1974 anticipated what Miles Davis would play at the concert documented on Dark Magus. A rhythmic bonanza rooted in Afro-centrist techniques, avante-garde sensibilities, and exploratory moods, it's songs eschew set arrangements, solos, and, for that matter, melodic devices. Recorded near the tail end of his electric period, the double album remains the darkest, most ferocious statement of Davis' career - a visionary effort that foresaw developments in jungle, noise-rock, funk, and drum 'n' bass. Initially issued in Japan in 1977, Dark Magus waited two decades for U.S. release. Now, more than 50 years after Davis and his ensemble blew minds at the New York venue, it gets it's first-ever domestic issue on vinyl - on a definitive-sounding pressing.Mastered at Mobile Fidelity's private studio, housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in California, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition 180g 33RPM 2LP set of Dark Magus invites you to pull up a seat and wrap your head around an exhilarating performance that simultaneously functions as an audition, experiment, release, and magnificent explosion of jazz-rock fusion. It presents the improvisational magic that unfolded onstage - the skronking tonalities, wah-wah-pedal bluster, acid-washed effects, furious drumming, run-the-voodoo-down grooves, menacing riffs, crashing cymbals - with incredible detail, color, and pace. It also captures the band's unbelievable energy, rendering both instruments and on-the-fly changes with revealing depth, definition, and dynamics. At it's core, this audiophile set takes you deep into the boundless mystery, promise, and uncertainty of Davis and company's efforts like never before. We hope your turntable and speakers are up to the challenge.1/4' / 15 IPS analog copy to DSD 256 to analog console to latheNumbered 180g 33RPM Vinyl 2LPNUMBERED SPECIAL EDITIONTrack ListSide AMoja (Part I)Moja (Part II)Side BWili (Part I)Wili (Part II)Side CTatu (Part I)Tatu (Part II)Side DNne (Part I)Nne (Part II)

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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.25 x 12.73 x 12.54 inches; 1.48 Pounds
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Mobile Fidelity
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2025
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ November 5, 2024
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Mobile Fidelity
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DM2KZCMR
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
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  • Moggio's
    5.0 out of 5 stars Miles at his Darkest but Funkiest!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2010
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    I'm new to the music of Miles Davis. And his electric/experimental period is my favourite era. Many jazz purists complained that this wasn't jazz! Well, one only needs to listen to albums like "Dark Magus" to find out why there might be some division amongst the jazz purists. ALL great artists fight to be creative, to expand their musical horizons and do NOT want to remain in a box and dumb down their art for the masses, despite the criticism they're constantly thrown. And Miles Davis was no different in that respect. Miles jams his ASS off on this recording, so much so, that I could spin the first two tracks, "Moja (parts 1 & 2)" for hours and not get bored! Recorded at Carnegie Hall in NYC, on March 30, 1974, not too long before Davis went into seclusion and temporarily retired for 5-6 years, "Dark Magus" has THE heaviest, darkest & funkiest fusion jams you'll probably ever hear is probably one of THE 10 best live albums I've ever heard. Check it out!
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  • Dean Robb
    5.0 out of 5 stars Deep, Dark, Acid Voodoo Funk
    Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2017
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    The title of this review really captures it. This is some truly heavy “stuff.” Intense, intense, intense brew of rock, funk, free jazz and a certain quality of voodoo hanging over all of it. THREE electric guitarists (Pete Cosey and Dominique Gaumont on lead, plus Reggie Lucas on rhythm), plus TWO saxophone players (David Liebman and Azar Lawrence), all playing over-the-top, yet totally in-the-pocket. Miles plays and orchestrates the chaos from his electric organ. This music is sui generis. Nothing else like it, really, before or since. Miles creating entirely new sound-worlds – forms of music. If your love for Miles stops at Kind of Blue, stay far, far away. If you want your head opened, dive in.
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  • Best Of All
    5.0 out of 5 stars Funk It Up
    Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2006
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    The live CD is a "companion piece" to the brilliant studio recording On The Corner.

    Though many fans may point to the sonic sound pieced together by three guitarists, the music is dominated by the rhythms set down by Al Foster, Michael Henderson and Mtume.

    Miles had truly put together a legendary rock band and these final concerts were a fitting culmination of a major creative era by an artist not afraid to redefine the boundaries of jazz.

    The only frustrating part of the CD is on the second disc, where a solo by Miles is faded out as if it was a studio recording. I would hope that in the future a listener will be able to hear the complete piece.
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  • Sir Lag Oleo
    5.0 out of 5 stars FunkierSpacier/Less Wankiness
    Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2004
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    I just got this album last week, and it's what I'd been hoping for when I got Agharta and Pangea. Those are two great shows indeed, but this one, Dark Magus, has meatier funk interspersed with spacier interludes. In particular, I think Pete Cosey's guitar playing is less wanky, more restrained on this album than it is on the other two. The result is a tighter all around sound. As for Miles, he picks his spots well, vacillating between blues wah-wahs and piercing blasts. Always right on!
    If you're into 70s Miles and are looking for the best live show from that period, then this is the ONE!
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  • Wilbur
    5.0 out of 5 stars Miles Davis Dark Magus: Live At Carnegie Hall can ...
    Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2014
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    Miles Davis
    Dark Magus: Live At Carnegie Hall can only be described as a funky rock concert. Michael Henderson's Bass riffs along with Rock Guitar and Miles ..makes this one extraordinary recording! 8 stars!
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  • moutaz mattar
    5.0 out of 5 stars love it long live miles
    Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2017
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    miles at his extremist fusion albums. love it long live miles..........
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  • Dr Head
    4.0 out of 5 stars One of Miles Davis’s best live albums of the ‘70s!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2024
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    Players are top shape and inspired on this. Energetic! Try to imagine the audience in Carnegie Hall including hippies, men in suits and their ladies expecting standards!…
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  • WASHIGTON GUSTAVO DANATRO GANDULFO
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very good
    Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2014
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    I really liked this disk and I already knew the artist. I would like to thank you for your attention.
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  • sks
    5.0 out of 5 stars 新品？
    Reviewed in Japan on August 4, 2020
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    ほぼ新品でした。
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  • D J F
    5.0 out of 5 stars Heavy, heavy monster sound
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 31, 2015
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    This is a complex album in terms of musical content, track titling and release, so let's get those issues out of the way first. Recorded in late March 1974 at New York's Carnegie Hall it was initially only released in Japan in 1977, after Agharta and Pangaea but stylistically before. This was well into Davis' retirement, finally seeing full release in 1997. The titles given are nominal, being Swahili for the numbers 1-4, each piece divided in two segments - Moja, Wili, Tatu and Nne. What they actually contain is as follows:

    First set - disc 1

    1 Moja part 1 = Turnaroundphrase (12:28)
    2 Moja part 2 = Tune in 5 (12:39)
    3 Wili part 1 = Funk [aka Agharta Prelude, part 1] (14:21)
    4 Wili part 2 = For Dave [aka Mr. Foster] (10:41)

    Second set -disc 2

    5 Tatu part 1 = Funk [aka Agharta Prelude, part 1] (18:50)
    6 Tatu part 2 = Calypso Frelimo (6:23)
    7 Nne part 1 = Ife (16:07)
    8 Nne part 2 = Turnaroundphrase (6:14) and Tune in 5 (3:07)

    Davis by this time was playing all the keyboards himself, preferring a three guitar line up instead with Pete Cosey, Reggie Lucas and Dominique Gaumont playing in a style that got this album voted one of the heaviest of all time. The sound throughout is superb, with Miles punctuating sparsely with trumpet runs twisted by wah wah pedal. Mtume is very apparent on percussion, and even at one point introduces an early drum machine to the soup, predating drum and bass by at least 15 years.

    It is a monster, rock orientated sound, with the band working extremely hard throughout and following Miles' direction like a well oiled machine. It's hard to believe that Gaumont and saxophonist Azar Lawrence were being auditioned during the second set (in response to a pay rise request from Lucas), so well does the whole fit together. But then this album is all about the groove, and it gives you that in bucketloads.

    A quick word about that second set - this is actually edited between Tatu and Nne so isn't the complete performance. Nonetheless this is a superb addition to the electric period Canon.
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  • Musikhörer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Jazz-Rock at His Best
    Reviewed in Germany on November 8, 2014
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    MIles Davis hatte sich 1974 vom reinen Jazzmusiker in den vierziger und fünfziger Jahren zu einem Künstler gewandelt, der
    für damals neue Techniken (wie den Einzug der Elektronik in die Musik) und anderen Musikrichtungen offen war und immer
    junge Musiker ermuntert hat, ihre Kreavitität auszuleben.

    Das auf der Doppel CD Dark Margus enthaltene Konzert aus der Carnegie Hall in New York ist ein Beweis seiner musikalischen
    Genialität. Hier wird angetrieben von einer tollen Rhytmusgruppe von MIles und seinen Jungs ein tolles Jazz-Rock Konzert dargeboten, dass damals die Zuschauer aus ihre Socken warf. Ich bin überzeugt, dass bei jeder noch so müden Party das
    Abspielen dieser CD die Stimmung massiv erhöhen wird.

    Klar ist die CD teuer, aber wenn man bedenkt, dass eine derartige Qualität von den heutigen Musikschaffenden nicht mehr
    erzeugt wird, ist der Preis angemessen. Eine klare Kaufempfehlung für dieses Stück Musikgeschichte.
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  • Dr Tim
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dark Magus: Live at Carnegie Hall- Miles Davis
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 29, 2013
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    This is probably the most experimental music Davis recorded. It is an aural stew of churning, gurgling, sometimes atonal, harmolodic , jazzy, funky musics of varying volume and intensity. Davis draws on a wide range of influences here ranging from Stockhausen to Hendrix to Sly Stone. The music is uncategorisable now, never mind then, and it is easy to see why so many unadventurous critics couldn't get to grips with it. However, that is their stupid fault for being unable or unwilling to drop their preconceptions and allow this complex music that is about texture, rhythm and timbre rather than conventional song structure and harmony to just 'be' [in the Heideggerian sense, my friends..]. Don't expect anything...just listen. You will hear the most wonderful sounds any ensemble could make. This music was years and years ahead of its time, and it makes some of the so-called 'experimental' music of the 70s and 80s look limp and amateurish in comparison. The wonderful thing about Davis, and this is also the case with artists like Brian Eno and Robert Wyatt, is that he knew perfectly well that there are no limits and boundaries in music but he chose to pull back a little from the most extreme position, retaining an audience.

    I would recommend 'Dark Magus' to anyone with intelligence and imagination. My only gripe is the unutterably pathetic quality of the double cd packaging. The cd case, made of thinner than usual plastic, literally broke into pieces when I attempted to dislodge the cd. Never mind, the music is wonderful.
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  • princess tina
    5.0 out of 5 stars Throbbing Gristle!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 27, 2016
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    If you are coming at Miles Davis from a rock direction and are found of anything which might loosely be described as "noise rock", then this CD will blow your socks off. If you like Faust, Hookworms, Can, God Speed You Black Emperor, Mogwai, The Fall, Fat White Family, Girl Band, Vert X, Pharaoh Overlord, The Oh Sees, The Hospitals, LAMPS, Grey Hairs, The Parquet Floors, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Velvet Underground, anything described as "stoner rock" or "dark ambient" or have ever owned a wah-wah pedal, you will absolutely love this. Tatu is worth the cost of a cd or download on its own and it's not even the best track. (That's Wili) It's well noisy!
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