The Airto Moreira/Flora Purim thread.

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Seems like there isn't a thread for them yet. So, classic or dud, your favourite tunes, other thoughts?

I've been a big fan of theirs for years, but their older albums are pretty hard to find (espcially Airto's), so I own mostly compilations and such. My favourite is probably this (though my CD version has some extra tracks compared to the LP version linked), which seems to collect Airto's work with Hermeto Pascoal (another Brazilian artist who's records are pretty hard to come by). It's kinda different from his fusion era recordings, more acoustic and "traditional", though there's still lots of experimenting on these tunes. But I love his fusion stuff too, "Tombo in 7/4" and "Samba de Flora" never cease to delight me. Then there's his work as sideman, which is a whole new issue.

As for Flora, my favourite record is probably this, though it's more of a band recording than a solo effort. Anyway, the version of "Cravo e canela" here (with Milton Nascimento as a guest) sounds better than previous versions by Milton himself.

Has anyone seen Airto live lately? They're playing this summer at a local jazz festival, and I wonder if they're worth seeing...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 8 June 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Bigtime concurrence on that live "500 Miles High" LP. I've played that one a LOT.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Airto's "Touching You, Touching Me" has been kicking my ass lately in a late 70's slick LA-production fusiony way, not entirely dissimilar to Gil's "Nightingale." Picked up "I'm Fine, How Are You," hoping for more white linen suit-type jams, but not nearly as good, if good at all. Also got Flora's "Encounter," which was a little bit too laid-back and airy for me, had Ron Carter, Airto, George Duke(?) on it, will try it again.

― bangelo (bangelo), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

last year's "Flora's Song" was pretty good overall, some cute compositions by their daughter [cannot remember name]

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

I find it kinda cute that Airto and Flora always seem to appear on each other's albums, and have done so for 35 years or so. Must be true love!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

has anyone heard this album?

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc000/c000/c00029hu82h.jpg

i saw it in the store the other day, but wasn't really ready to drop 20$ on an album i'd never heard.

i'm also not really the biggest fan of Hermeto Pascoal. i've bought three of his albums and they've always left me flat. dunno why. sorta wanky fusion w/soft melodies.

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Pascoal better as a guest, or as the nominal subject of an album (Itibirê Familia Orquestra), than as solo, yeah I could see that.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

i've also listened to Flora's "Butterfly Dreams" many times in the store only to put it down and go home and wonder why i didn't buy it.

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

hey jaxon:

http://loronix.blogspot.com/

re: seeds on the ground

― bangelo (bangelo), Thursday, 8 June 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Looks like the compilation I have is actually just "Seeds on the Ground" and "Natural Feelings" on one CD. In which case both are highly recommendable, though the "Seeds on the Ground" is probably bether.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 8 June 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

thanks bangelo! those banda black rio (and w/caetano) and bola sete albums look good.

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 8 June 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Seeds on the Ground just keeps getting more and more beautiful as i listen. hardly the fusion wank i was expecting.

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.musicobsession.com/Pictures/a/i/airto157649.jpg

this one is pretty great. also: check out george benson's 'white rabbit' album for some prime airto.

― gear (gear), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Wow.....this is a trip. All through my kiddyhood, my dad had Flora Purim's album Everyday, Everynight (which is beautiful, btw) on constant rotation. I've never heard of her anywhere else until now.

― It's Rodney, pimp! (R. J. Greene), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

The only Purim I've heard is on Chick Corea's Light as a Feather, which is pretty great.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

Oh man, I a little drunk and re-living my teenage year listening to Butterfly Dreams. This and Seeds On The Ground make me feel 15 to 16 again.

― mmmm, Saturday, 1 May 2010 23:50 (fifteen years ago)

eight years pass...

so the Open Your Eyes You Can Fly flora lp is an absolute beast - where to go next?

also the start of that albums title track is totally fugazi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxlAi2BlDqg

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, 18 February 2019 16:31 (six years ago)

THe 2 previous lps are pretty great.
I picked up the 1st of thsoe, Butterfly Dreams from an HMV sale about 25 years ago then grabbed the 2nd Stories tO tell off a torrent site a couple of years back. They get pretty other at times, in a psychedelicish way. Quite good.

― Stevolende, Monday, 18 February 2019 17:18 (six years ago)

Butterfly Dreams & 500 Miles High are peak Flora imo. I love her at her most unhinged.

― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 18 February 2019 17:46 (six years ago)

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