Light as a Feather
Azymuth
Brazilian Jazz FunkThe three members of Azymuth built a Brazilian funk-jazz hybrid that owed debts to Miles Davis's fusion period and to Rio's own Carnival rhythm traditions simultaneously. Light as a Feather is the record where that synthesis locked in — the electric piano and percussion work together in a way that feels inevitable even though nobody else was making this exact sound. UK rare groove DJs found it first; the rest of the world caught up eventually.
