Flora and some of her associates...
Flora Purim - Open Your Eyes You Can Fly
A prime slice of mid-70's Brazilian-fusion, featuring all the usual suspects, or, as it says under the personnel photo on the inside of the gatefold, 'Flora and some of her associates...'
This album has Flora covering the Chick Corea/Neville Potter Scientology-singalong, Sometime Ago from the Return To Forever album of a couple of years prior.
The sticker on the cover shows I paid $8 for this. I reckon it was from Porthole Records in Port Adelaide in about 2010.
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What shall we see, for the first time altogether?
Chick Corea - Return To Forever
This is the album that gave birth to the band Return To Forever. Corea's next album would be Light As A Featherfriendica.world/display/84b6ef… You can see why they might've thought this particular vein might've been worth chiseling away at a bit more.
I picked it up yesterday. Japanese pressing, no obi strip - which the record nerd in me mourns, but the pragmatist in me doesn't mind, because they are a bit of a ball-ache to keep undamaged. Japanese pressings, though, are always beautiful.
I think jazz-fusion must've been quite big in Australia in the 1970s, because second hand record shops often have a good selection. Also, there's always a disproportionate (to my mind) amount of Herbie Mann and Chuck Mangione albums.
Addit. After a few spins, this album is just getting better and better. An amazing piece of work.
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