Do any of you own more albums from this 6-octave (presumably) singer?

Oh well that one... of course many RTF aficionados might know her for their first two albums... and I thought her first solo albums were even wicker than any RTF album period

 

 

 

Open Your Eyes also has some great session bass playing from Alphonso Johnson. Don't Flora and Airto largely play and record latin jazz dance nowadays - seemed to be booked for the whole of  the month of January  through the early 00's at Ronnie Scott's Club in London. Also the main act on B&W Records through the 90's -and that was latin jazz dance.

 

Also a reunion with Chick Corea, I think it was about 2 years ago (or so I heard).

 

 I've yet to hear those albums, are they as wicked as Encounter?, don't have much against it, just that the occasional moaning was quite a turn-off (which rarely happens in given circumstances)

I have the stuff that she did with The return to Forever, Which I love I also got this:

great stuff if you don't have it highly recommended.

 

 Which reminds me I did see a cassette by Airto De Moreira called The Sun Is Out which by handwritting (presumably my old man) only was credited Airto... I now found out it was really a Flora Purim album with Airto. Gotta give it a good listen once I search again through the dust

 

The Other Side Of This http://www.rykodisc.com/Catalog/CatalogArtist_01.asp?Action=Get&Artist_ID=4 - Airto

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When you step into THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS, leave your preconceptions behind -- about Airto as jazz giant, about music as solely entertainment. This is a work like no other in a long and remarkable career, a testimony to Airto's lifelong fascination with the confluence of music and spirit. Airto explains, "This is a recording of sounds as well as songs, healing sounds that can lift your spirits and transport you to another plane. It is not a creation of my intellect, but of my spirit and soul. Since my childhood in Brazil I have been exposed on many occasions to spiritual phenomena. I have learned from my friends and elders that human beings are formed of three basic elements: physical, mental, and spiritual. We also have two bodies, the physical body and the spiritual body, or aura. The spirit body can travel to places that the material body cannot. It is these places I speak of when I say 'the other side of this.'" Airto's belief in the power of music as a medium for physical and spiritual healing began during his earliest formative years. He was born -- in 1941 in Santa Catarina, Brazil -- into a family of itinerant healers. His grandmother was a nomadic spiritual healer who traveled from village to village, treating the sick with herbs and ancient wisdoms. She gave him his first tambourine when he was two years old. His father also treated the afflicted, practicing Kardecism to channel healing techniques from the spirit world. Airto says his father taught him "how to interact with the spirit world, and I learned that I, too, shared my family's history of healing -- the difference was that I healed with sound." THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS was recorded at the home studio of producer and Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart in 1991. It was the latest of their many collaborative projects over the years, since meeting when Miles Davis opened for the Dead at the Fillmore West in 1970. Airto's percussive genius is featured in a diverse array of musical settings, performing solo, or in combination with the stellar cast of featured musicians assembled at Hart's home. The album's 13 selections, rooted in the Afro-Brazilian traditions of Airto's heritage, take the listener on an aural tour of imaginary landscapes; its liner notes provide guided visualizations to transport the listener step by step through a sweeping array of feelings, from reflection to celebration.

 

 As a sidenote, I heard once again the entire Encounter and it has grown on me a lot. In fact I might want to listen to it again soon enough.

 

Also found this version by OOIOO  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma08IvICqAM - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma08IvICqAM  a bit more avant but a bit too butchered

 

And I'm afraid I only heard Marisela by name (as far as I know I haven't heard her music). In fact I don't know many female singers in my country aside from some pop singers, as well as Maria Rivas and Biela Da Costa