Fusion

Biography
John McLaughlin, also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer. His music includes many genres of jazz which he coupled with elements of rock, Indian classical music, Western classical music, flamenco and blues to become one of the pioneering figures in fusion. After contributing to several key British groups of the early 1960s McLaughlin made Extrapolation, his first album as a bandleader, in 1969. He then moved to the U.S., where he played with Tony Williams’s group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his electric jazz-fusion albums In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, and On the Corner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McLaughlin_(musician)#Discography

Album & Cover
Music Spoken Here is an album by John McLaughlin, released in 1982 through Warner Music Group. The album reached number 24 in the Billboard Jazz Albums chart 1983

The cover design was a nod to the playing style of McLaughlin and its difficulty of fitting in with a musical scene, so a photograph of McLaughlin trying to put a square peg into a round hole summed up his playing style and his frustration at fitting in. To get the photograph Storm and Aubrey flew to Paris where at the time he was married to Katia Labeque, who played piano on the album .

Cover Location: Paris, France
Who Did What: Cover Design – APP(Aubrey Powell Partnership)/TCP, Assorted Images – Marc Church/Tony Mottram. Photography – Dominique Issermann.
Label: Warner Bros. 923723-1(US)
Source: Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art, The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue: Aubrey Powell

Tracklist

Credits
Bass – Jean-Paul Celea
Drums – Tommy Campbell
Engineer – Jean Luis Rizet, Laurent Peyron
Guitar – John McLaughlin
Keyboards – François Couturie
Piano – Katia Labèque
Producer – John McLaughlin