This double LP appears to be a greatest hits compilation, but the total lack of liner notes, the 1976 release date, and the more album-sounding tracklist/flow made me skeptical. On the back I found "originally released as BDS 5085 and BDS 21-SK". Thanks to the internet I was able to find (after wasting more time than should be necessary) that these are Airto's first two albums, "Natural Feelings" and "Seed on the Ground", from 1970 and 1971 respectively. For some reason they are packaged backwards in the double LP with the second album as disc 1. Well that's all irrelevant I guess, because they play like one long album. This is back when an album was 30 minutes, and a double LP was an hour. The music is fantastic. It is light and jazzy, Brazilian, funky, and does not blast off into fusion madness, instead going for listenability, unlike some other albums from this period with these artists, like Return to Forever or Flora's solo stuff (or the Miles Davis stuff Airto was guesting on a couple years later). I don't know from Portuguese but I inexplicably find myself singing along. My mom would get down to this. Sometimes Flora's singing goes crazy: as always she is a singer who clearly inhabits a body, screeching and cooing, becoming one with the echoes of her voice through the landscape. I highly recommend anything by Airto, especially if Flora's on it.
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