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Light As a Feather |
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| Name: | Light As a Feather | |
| Artist: | Chick Corea & Return To Forever |
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| Styles: |
Jazz - Fusion - Groups - Labels - Verve - Post - bop - Piano |
| Media: |
Audio CD |
| Features: |
Original recording remastered |
| Release Date: |
12 October 1998 |
| Label: |
Verve |
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| UPC Catalogue No: |
731455711523 |
| Amazon Sales Ranking: |
22619 |
| Number of Discs: |
2 |
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Description |
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Featuring the same band as on the first Return to Forever album--vocalist Flora Purim, saxophonist-flutist Joe Farrell, bassist Stanley Clarke, and drummer Airto--1973's Light As a Feather was the result of a conscious effort on Chick Corea's part to communicate with a broader audience. Although Corea's electric piano and Purim's spacey-samba vocals might sound dated, the album includes a couple of Corea's most beloved compositions, "500 Miles High" and "Spain". Subsequent Return to Forever albums turned to conceptual bombast and silly fantasies. Here Corea strikes an appealing balance between art and accessibility. --Rick Mitchell |
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Tracks |
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| 1 |
You're Everything |
| 2 |
Light as a Feather |
| 3 |
Captain Marvel |
| 4 |
500 Miles High |
| 5 |
Children's Song |
| 6 |
Spain |
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Matrix |
| 2 |
Light as a Feather |
| 3 |
500 Miles High |
| 4 |
Children's Song |
| 5 |
Spain |
| 6 |
Spain |
| 7 |
What Games Shall We Play Today? |
| 8 |
What Games Shall We Play Today? |
| 9 |
What Games Shall We Play Today? |
| 10 |
What Games Shall We Play Today? |
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Customer Reviews |
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Amazing!Chicks Greatest by Far!! |
Rating: 5.0 |
The sounds of this album are amazing, the second disc, previously unrealsed has two tracks never heard before, one has a sixties pop feel, with brazilian vocals on top and the other is classic chick. Its amazing, the first cd is even better, spain an old classic is performed magically. Captain Marvel is amazing and definately my favourite!Some of the grooves the drummer and bass player get together are amazing, this is shown well on 500 hundred miles high, when the groove starts its amazing. A truly great album, well worth the money! |
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For lovers of 'Musicmagic' |
Rating: 3.0 |
Whether you love this album probably depends on how early you joined the Corea fan-wagon. I joined in 1976, and found all of 'Romantic Warrior', 'No Mystery' and 'Where Have I Known You Before' to be superb ***** recordings. Working my way back, I wasn't so convinced by 'Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy'. Working forward, I felt totally let down by 'Musicmagic'. Maybe it was the loss of DiMeola's guitar or the disappearance of the hard, gutsy style that I believed was at the core of RTF. Unfortunately the re-branding of RTF as a latin sax-and-female-vocalist seemed a betrayal of the somewhat masculine values of the previous RTF. But hearing 'Light as a Feather', it's now clear to me that the Musicmagic style wasn't totally new for Corea and RTF. Substitute Flora Purim for Gayle Moran and you have pretty much the 'LaaF line-up of five years earlier. The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide gives this four stars out of five, saying 'Essential for its joyousness, flawed for its lengthy noodling'. I'm not so convinced about its indispensability. Stanley Clarke's bass, mostly low down in the re-mastered mix, seems undistinguished when you compare it with it subsequently became. The second disc is no worse than the first, although the idea of giving us no fewer than four versions of a track that wasn't even released on the original LP seems excessive. It's revealing to hear Corea giving instructions at the start of each recording -- he clearly worked his band hard, but they were demonstrably capable of responding to his requirements. For me, 'No Mystery' is one of the best albums ever recorded, although I'll grant that it's an acquired taste. (Whenever I move to a new music format -- such as minidisc or MP3 -- I'll always try out 'Flight of the Newborn' first.) This album falls somewhat short of that, and I can only describe it as 'pleasant enough'. |
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