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After collecting rock albums, books and rock magazines for over forty years it's about time to open up the archives and put some of my favorite music on the big net. The music here is intended for review purposes only and is not a substitute for the original record company product. Please contact us directly regarding the removal of any potentially infringing material. READERS: Please use us as a buyer's guide and support the artists.

Misa Spiritual

Music Posted on 5 December 2023 21:19

It’s december again. Time flies when you love listening to music…. December has provided some beautiful music through the years. Here’s an example. Musicians from various countries get together to perform Airto’s Missa Spiritual.

Here’s is an excerpt of that Missa. No Flora Purim this time but other musicians are none the less then Gil Evans on synthesizer, from Belgium: Philip Catherine on guitar, all the way from India: Tiruk Gurtu on percussion, and Fredy Santiago & Airto from Brasil.

The live concert took place in the old grand Saint Martin church in Cologna. German WDR orchestra and Vocal Ensemble. The german broadcast company did a fine job of recording this Misa. Here’s an excerpt of that concert…

Here’s some other great music of Airto from an earlier post >>>>



Airto & Special Friends

Music Posted on 14 March 2010 17:13

Long time ago, in an era that every town had it’s own recordstore and none of them were alike, i’ve found a double album of Airto in the sales bins of the recordstore “Elpee” in Arnhem. I’ve bought it because it was really cheap and I had some other albums in “The Essential…” series, not knowing what beautiful music this was. Since then this music finds itself regularly on my turntable.

Airto does the percussion, famous Ron Carter on the bass, Flora Purim off-course on vocals, but the magical notes are coming this time especially from Hermeto en Sivuca. Impressive!