Flora Purim And Airto - The Magicians (1986) CD Rip

Tracklist
1. Sweet Baby Blues
2. Garimpo
3. Esquinas
4. Bird Of Paradise
5. The Magicians
6. Jennifer
7. Jump
8. Two Minutes Of Peace
9. Love Reborn

personnel :
Airto Moreira: Drums, Producer, Percussion, Vocals
Gary Brown: Bass
Flora Purim: Guitar, Percussion, Vocals
George Duke: Keyboards
Kei Akagi: Keyboards
Kenny Loggins: Vocals
Celso Alberti: Drums
Dominic Camardella: Percussion Programming, Special Effects
Jeff Elliot: Horn
Keith Jones: Bass
Marcos Silva: Keyboards
Mary Fettig: Horn
Randy Tico: Bass
Ricardo Peixoto: Guitar
Dave Zeiher: Guitar
Doug Scott: Drum Machine
Bob Harrison: Bass
One of mainstream-minded Concord's few so-called crossover projects -- hence the separate label -- this isn't a very successful venture, a hodgepodge of this and that, recorded with a flat commercial sheen. Misleadingly, the CD opens with Flora singing the blues on the Cheathams' "Sweet Baby Blues," upon which Airto plays straight traps. But while "Garimpo" gets the album back on the Latin track, the energy and quirky inventiveness of the Moreiras is mostly out to lunch, buried under the in-your-face sound and dissipated among a variety of instrumental lineups. "Jump" does get some sharp Brazilian funk going, and the title track has some of the old Airto craziness, but the rest is not going to light too many fires.~Richard S. Ginell
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