What an album. Found it a bit dense the first time that I listened to it. He uses lots of patterns in an even meter which can mean that it sounds mechanical. You could say appropriate for an album of this title. It is one of those albums that benefits from lots of listening. Most of the tracks are dedicated to significant people. e.g. Michael Brecker, Wayne Shorter, mostly musicians but even the Dalai Lama gets a look in. If you want to develop your ear for altered scales then To Bop or Not to Be (great title), which is the tune dedicated to Brecker, is superb. This may become one of my favourite all time albums.
There is a mailing list dedicated to discussion of John McLaughlin's music.
http://mailman.cs.cf.ac.uk/localpages/one-word/about.html
This link is a Jazzwise review http://www.jazzwise.com/news/item/1624
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