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UPC4988031178539

eBay Product ID (ePID)11050155221

Product Key Features

Release Year1972

FormatCD

GenreJazz

StyleFusion

ArtistStanley Clarke, Flora Purim, Joe Farrell, Chick Corea/Return to Forever, Airto Moreira

Release TitleLight As a Feather

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Number of Discs1

Additional informationThis 1998 reissue features the original 1972 LP on disc 1 and previously unreleased alternate takes on disc 2. Full performer name: Chick Corea & Return To Forever. Chick Corea & Return To Forever: Chick Corea (electric piano); Airto Moreira (vocals, drums, percussion); Flora Purim (vocals, percussion); Joe Farrell (soprano & tenor saxophone, flute); Stanley Clarke (acoustic & electric bass). Producer: Chick Corea. Reissue producer: Ben Young. Recorded at I.B.C. Sound Recording Studios, London, England on October 8 & 15, 1972. Includes liner notes by Ben Young and Paul DeBarros. Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Kevin Reeves. Full performer name: Chick Corea & Return To Forever. Chick Corea & Return To Forever: Chick Corea (electric piano); Airto Moreira (vocals, drums, percussion); Flora Purim (vocals, percussion); Joe Farrell (soprano & tenor saxophone, flute); Stanley Clarke (acoustic & electric bass). Recorded at I.B.C. Sound Recording Studios, London, England on October 8 & 15, 1972. Digitally remastered by Dennis Drake (Polygram Studios). Always tied to a confusing time line, the first released recording from the original configuration of Return to Forever was actually their second session. An initial studio date from the ECM label done in February of 1972 wasn't issued until after the band had changed in 1975. The Polydor/Verve recording from October of 1972 is indeed this 1973 release, featuring the same band with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Airto Moreira, Joe Farrell, and Flora Purim. There's no need splitting hairs, as both are five-star albums, showcasing many of the keyboardist's long enduring, immediately recognizable, and highly melodic compositions. Farrell's happy flute, Purim's in-the-clouds wordless vocals, the electrifying percussion of Airto, and Clarke's deft and loping electric bass guitar lines are all wrapped in a stew of Brazilian samba and Corea's Fender Rhodes electric piano, certainly setting a tone and the highest bar for the music of peer groups to follow. "Captain Marvel" -- the seed for the band sans Farrell and Purim that was expanded into a full concept album with Stan Getz -- is here as a steamy fusion samba with Corea dancing on the keys. By now the beautiful "500 Miles High" has become Purim's signature song with Neville Potter's lyrics and Corea's stabbing chords, and unfortunately became a hippie drug anthem. Perhaps Corea's definitive song of all time, and covered ad infinitum by professional and school bands, "Spain" retains the quirky melody, handclapped interlude, up-and-down dynamics, exciting jam section, and variation in time, tempo, and colorations that always command interest despite a running time of near ten minutes. "You're Everything" is a romantic classic that surely has been heard at many weddings, with another lyric by Potter sung in heaven by Purim, while the title track is Purim's lyric in a looser musical framework with Clarke's chart coalescing with Corea and Farrell's pung