"Sweet Power Your Embrace" is on many releases, some 12" some cd. There was a re-re - repress last year on good quality 12" vinyl, at 45 too. Seek and ye shall find. (Maybe)
k >-----Original Message----- >From: Guilherme Menegon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 1:17 PM >To: [email protected] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: (313) Re: Intergalactic jazz > > >Hi list (so long!) > >Some jazz fusion + funk: > >James Mason: Rhythm of life [Chiaroscuro, but recently repressed by >Sould Brothers, UK] => Probably the best LP ever done IMHO. ``Sweat >power embrace'' has so much energy... Truly amazing stuff... >(Does anyone know if this was ever released as a 12"??) > >Cesar Camargo Mariano: Sao Paulo [Lup Som, recently repressed on CD] => >Ok, this might be a bit obscure, but we should give some props to our >home talents and it is also amazing. Very fast percussion and full of >electronic keyboards... > >Santana's ``Welcome'' and ``Butterfly'' are very nice as well. >If you liked G.Duke, I would recommend ``Faces in reflection'' (a D.May >fave) and ``Brazilian Love Affair'' (again nice percussion + bossa nova >influences). >Lonnie Liston Smith's ``Visions of a New World'' and ``Expansions'' >(recently re-recorded as a house verison by Scott Grooves from >Detroit (?)) are more on the funk side but equally electronic and >very nice. > > > > Chick Corea "Light As a Feather" -- redeems all the prog-wank >suckitude of > > everything else he recorded in >the 70s. > > >Agree on this... probably his best work IMHO (But Weather Report stuff >is cool, too... BTW, this reminds me of L.Garnier sitting in my car >here in Sao Paulo in 1999 listing to a WR tape and saying ``Wow! What's >this?'' ... ``err, Weather Report, mate'' ... ``Never heard of it. >Sounds amazing! Maybe I will do such a jazzy track when I get back >home''...) > > > > Airto "Fingers" -- his best work. Source for the sample > > in MAW "Bela Horizonte" > > >Can't disagree more!!! This is good, but check ``Natural Feelings'' >(w/ Flora, Hermeto Pascoal, Sivuca) and specially ``Identity'' (this >was a C.Craig fave, too). > > > > Miroslav Vitous "Mountains In The Clouds" -- abstract, amazing. > > >Don't know this! Any more details, pls?! > >Greetings, > >Guilherme > > > >
