Open Your Eyes You Can Fly

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Open Your Eyes You Can Fly
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Studio album by
Flora Purim
ReleasedMarch 1976 (1976) [1]
StudioParamount Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre
Length37:16
Label Milestone
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Flora Purim chronology
Stories to Tell
(1974)		Open Your Eyes You Can Fly
(1976)		 Encounter
(1977)
Singles from Open Your Eyes You Can Fly
  1. "Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly"
    Released: 1976
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Christgau's Record Guide C [3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Open Your Eyes You Can Fly is the fifth solo studio album by Brazilian jazz singer Flora Purim. It was released in 1976 via Milestone Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at Paramount Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California. The album features contributions from Airto Moreira on percussion and vocals, David Amaro and Egberto Gismonti on guitars, George Duke on keyboards, Hermeto Pascoal on electric piano and flute, Alphonso Johnson and Ron Carter on bass, Robertinho Silva and Leon "Ndugu" Chancler on drums, and Laudir de Oliveira on congas. One of the songs featured here, Sometime Ago, was composed by Chick Corea with lyrics by Neville Potter and was featured on the eponymous album by Return to Forever produced in 1972, Flora Purim and her husband Airto Guimorvan Moreira also played on that album.

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The album peaked at number 59 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and at number 38 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in the United States. Its title track, a cover version of the Chick Corea/Neville Potter song "Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly", was released as the only album's single.

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly"Neville Potter Chick Corea 4:29
2."Time's Lie"Neville Potter Chick Corea 5:09
3."Sometime Ago"Neville Potter Chick Corea 4:44
4."San Francisco River"Neville Potter Flora Purim 4:06
5."Andei (I Walked)" (featuring Airto Moreira)  Hermeto Pascoal 6:11
6."Ina's Song (Trip to Bahia)" Flora Purim
3:40
7."Conversation"  Hermeto Pascoal 2:34
8."White Wing/Blank Wing" (featuring Airto Moreira) Flora Purim Hermeto Pascoal 5:50
Total length:37:16
Notes [5]

Personnel

Chart history

Chart (1976)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [7] 59
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) [8] 38

References

  1. ↑ "This Week at The Coop". Boston Phoenix, the. 5 (12): 29. 23 March 1976. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  2. ↑ Elias, Jason. "Open Your Eyes You Can Fly – Flora Purim". AllMusic . Retrieved August 31, 2018.
  3. ↑ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: P". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields. ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved March 10, 2019– via robertchristgau.com.
  4. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . US: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  164. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  5. ↑ "Covers by Flora Purim". WhoSampled . Retrieved August 31, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Bug Powder Dust by Bomb the Bass feat. Justin Warfield on WhoSampled". WhoSampled .
  7. ↑ "Flora Purim Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Flora Purim Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
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