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{{Infobox album
| name         = Floating Point
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[John McLaughlin (musician)|John McLaughlin]]
| cover        = John_McLaughlin_Floating_Point.jpg
| alt          = Outer space-themed black/blue image: has John McLaughlin then Floating Point on it in a white sci-fi font
| released     = {{Start date|2008|05|20}}
| recorded     = April 2007
| venue        =
| studio       = AM Studios, Chennai, India
| genre        = Jazz
| length       = {{Duration|h=1|m=2|s=28}}
| label        = Abstract Logix
| producer     = John McLaughlin
| prev_title   = [[Industrial Zen]]
| prev_year    = 2006
| next_title   = [[Five Peace Band Live]]
| next_year    = 2009
}}
'''''Floating Point''''' is an album by [[John McLaughlin (musician)|John McLaughlin]], released in 2008 through the record label [[Abstract Logix]].<ref name=Allmusic>{{cite web|url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/floating-point-mw0000785195 |title=Floating Point – John McLaughlin : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards : AllMusic|first=Michael G.|last=Nastos|access-date=May 13, 2011|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref> The album reached number fourteen on ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'''s Top Jazz Albums chart.<ref name=Chart>{{cite web|url=http://allmusic.com/album/floating-point-r1382256/charts-awards|title=Floating Point: Charts & Awards|access-date=May 13, 2011|website=Allmusic}}</ref>
Regarding the recording, McLaughlin commented: "while this CD features predominantly Indian musicians, we are in quite another form compared to the group Shakti... The music is for the most part 'Jazz-Fusion' if a label has to be put on it. But with the musicians involved in this project, it has also a 'world' kind of atmosphere."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abstractlogix.com/releases/john-mclaughlin-floating-point |title=John McLaughlin: Floating Point |website=Abstract Logix |access-date=February 23, 2022}}</ref> Concerning the album title, McLaughlin remarked: "Every now and then a group of musicians will gel together in such an incredible way, and at that point it's like you lose normal gravity... you've got your own gravity happening and you're kind of like floating with the other guys."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.johnmclaughlin.com/2008/04/bill-milkowski-talks-about-floating-point |title=Bill Milkowski Talks About Floating Point |date=April 3, 2008 |last=Milkowski |first=Bill |website=JohnMcLaughlin.com |access-date=February 23, 2022}}</ref>
==Reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=Allmusic/>
| rev2      = ''[[DownBeat]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="downbeat">{{cite magazine |last=Micallef |first=Ken |date=September 2008 |title=John McLaughlin: Floating Point |magazine=DownBeat |pages=80}}</ref>
| rev3      = ''[[All About Jazz]]''
| rev3Score ={{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name=AllAboutJazz>{{cite web |url= http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=29357 |title=John McLaughlin: Floating Point |first=John |last=Kelman |work=allaboutjazz.com |date=May 26, 2008 |access-date=October 27, 2013}}</ref>
| rev4      = ''[[The Guardian]]''
| rev4Score ={{Rating|5|5}}<ref name=guardian>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/jun/27/filmandmusic1.filmandmusic35 |title=John McLaughlin: Floating Point |first=John |last=Fordham|work=The Guardian |date=June 26, 2008 |access-date=February 22, 2022}}</ref>
|rev5 = [[Tom Hull (critic)|Tom Hull]]
|rev5score = B+<ref>{{cite web |title=Tom Hull: Grade List: John McLaughlin |url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/get_gl.php?n=John+McLaughlin | publisher=[[Tom Hull (critic)|Tom Hull]] |accessdate=7 September 2022}}</ref>
}}
Michael G. Nastos of [[AllMusic]] called 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."<ref name=Allmusic/>
In a 5-star review for [[DownBeat]], Ken Micallef commented: "this brilliant collective plays as a
single unit, not a band of hired studio guns... This is a case of Indian musicians using their extraordinary skills to explore U.S. fusion, giving the now 70-year-old guitarist an amazing platform for compositional/improvisational development. This is a landmark recording, marked by detail, subtlety and extraordinarily moving performances."<ref name="downbeat" />
John Kelman in [[All About Jazz]] wrote "One of the most fluent, evocative and powerful albums in a career filled with high points," and concluded: "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".<ref name=AllAboutJazz/>
Writing for [[The Guardian]], [[John Fordham (jazz critic)|John Fordham]] awarded the album 5 stars, and stated: "this boiling new set sounds as if it's driven at least as much by cutting-edge Indian crossover musicians as by McLaughlin himself... this is 99% an absolute cracker, and not just for guitar nuts either."<ref name=guardian />
==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| all_writing = John McLaughlin
| title1 = AbbaJi (For Alla Rakha)
| length1 = 9:01
| title2 = Raju
| length2 = 8:21
| title3 = Maharina
| length3 = 6:09
| title4 = Off the One
| length4 = 6:55
| title5 = The Voice
| length5 = 9:19
| title6 = Inside Out
| length6 = 8:30
| title7 = 14U
| length7 = 7:07
| title8 = Five Peace Band
| length8 = 7:06
| total_length = 1:02:28
}}
==Personnel==
* [[John McLaughlin (musician)|John McLaughlin]] – [[guitar synthesizer]], guitar (2, 4, 6, 8)
* [[Hadrien Feraud]] – bass guitar
* [[Louis Banks]] – keyboards
* [[Ranjit Barot]] – drums
* [[Sivamani (percussionist)|Sivamani]] – percussion, [[konokol]] (6)
* [[George Brooks (musician)|George Brooks]] – [[soprano saxophone]] (1)
* [[Debashish Bhattacharya]] – [[Lap slide guitar|Hindustani slide guitar]] (2)
* [[Shashank Subramanyam]] – [[Venu|bamboo flute]] (4)
* [[Shankar Mahadevan]] – voice (5)
* [[U. Rajesh]] – electric mandolin (6)
* [[Naveen Kumar (Flautist)|Naveen Kumar]] – bamboo flute (7)
* [[Niladri Kumar]] – [[sitar]] (8)
==References==
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