Flora Purim - Open Your Eyes You Can Fly 1976 Milestone M-9065 1 Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly (Chick Corea-Neville Potter) 2 Time's Lie (Chick Corea-Neville Potter) 3 Sometime Ago (Chick Corea-NevillePotter) 4 San Francisco River (Airto Moreira-Purim Purim) 5 Andei "I Walked" (Hermeto Pascoal) 6 Ina's Song "Trip to Bahia" (Flora Purim) 7 Conversation (Hermeto Pascoal) 8 Medley: White Wing/Blank Wing (Hermeto Pascoal-Flora Purim) arranged by: Hermeto Pascoal (4,5,7,8) Egberto Gismonti (4) Flora Purim (6) All Group (1,2,3) 01 David Amaro - electric guitar George Duke - electric piano Alphonso Johnson - electric bass Ndugu (Leon Chancler) - drums Background vocals: Flora, david Amaro, George Duke, Hermeto Pascoal Instrumental solo: David Amaro (electric guitar) 02 Hermeto Pascoal - flute David Amaro - acoustic guitar George Duke - electric piano,ARP string,ensemble synthesizer Alphonso Johnson - electric and acoustic bass Ndugu - drums Airto Moreira - percussion Instrumental solo: Hermeto Pascoal (flute), Nudgu (drums) 03 Hermeto Pascoal - flute David Amaro - electric guitar George Duke - electric piano,ARP string,ensemble synthesizer Alphonso Johnson - electric bass Ndugu - drums Airto Moreira - percussion Laudir de Oliveira - conga drums Instrumental solo: Hermeto Pascoal(flute), David Amaro(electric guitar) 04 Hermeto Pascoal - flute, electric piano Egberto Gismonti - acoustic guitar David Amaro - electric guitar George Duke - moog synthesizer Alphonso Johnson - electric bass Ron Carter - acoustic bass Robertinho Silva - drums Instrumental duet: Hermeto Pascoal (flute) and George Duke (synthesizer) 05 Hermeto Pascoal - flute, electric piano David Amaro - electric guitar George Duke - moog synthesizer,clavinet Alphonso Johnson - electric bass Airto Moreira - percussion Robertinho Silva - drums, berimbau vocal duet : Flora Purim and Airto Moreira Instrumental duet: Hermeto Pascoal (flute),George Duke (synthesizer), David Amaro (electric guitar) 06 Hermeto Pascoal - electric piano David Amaro - electric guitar George Duke - moog,ARP Odyssey and ARP strings, ensemble synthesizer Alphonso Johnson - electric and acoustic bass Robertinho Silva - drums,percussion Laudir de Oliveira - conga drums Instrumental solo: Georrge Duke (ARP Odyssey synthesizer) 07 Hermeto Pascoal - electric piano David Amaro - electric guitar George Duke - ARP strings ensemble and moog synthesizer Alphonso Johnson - acoustic bass Airto Moreira - percussion 08 Hermeto Pascoal - electric piano,flue,harpsichord,whistling,percussion(seven-up bottles) Egberto Gismonti - acoustic guitar Ron Carter - acoustic bass Alphonso Johnson - electric bass Airto Moreira - percussion,drums,berimbau Robertinho Silva - percussion, berimbau vocal duet : Flora Purim and Airto Moreira Instrumental solo: Hermeto Pascoal (harpsichord and whistling) As an original member of Chick Corea's group Return to Forever, Purim subsequently drew praise as a solo act. Recording for the jazz label Milestone since 1973, Purim's sensual and strong voice was singular enough to withstand the pitfalls that hampered the work of many Latin jazz fusion artists. Open Your Eyes You Can Fly represents a commercial breakthrough, and has the artist again supplemented by adventurous players and top-notch songwriting. The best of the three Chick Corea tracks is the title song. With it's emotive and stinging guitar solo from David Amaro, it features Purim at her most accessible and charming. The remake of "Sometime Ago" has one of Corea's more accessible melodies, as Purim turns in one of her more sweet and fulfilling vocals. The melodic and soothing "San Francisco River" has the artist writing solely with frequent Corea collaborator Neville Potter on the evocative track. Despite the great work here, Open Your Eyes You Can Fly, lacks consistency. But with the great talents assembled and great voice, it's easy to overlook that fact. Hermeto Pascoal's "Andei (I Walked)" has a great synthesizer solo from George Duke and a flute solo from Pascoal. "Ina's Song (Trip to Bahia)" features Purim singing in Portuguese, starting off slow but then enlivened by her passion filled vocalizations. Produced by jazz producer Orrin Keepnews, this features the artist more lucid and joyful than some of her other work. For the reason it is recommended. www.allmusic.com 2000 CD Milestone/OJC 1042 LP Milestone M-9065 CS Milestone 5M-9065 2000 CD Original Jazz Classics 1042 2000 CD Ojc 10422
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