Passport - Iguacu (1977)

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Artist: Passport
Title: Iguacu
Year Of Release: 1977
Label: Wounder Bird Records[WOU 149]
Genre: Jazz,Jazz Fusion
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 41:04
Total Size: 264 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

1. Bahia do sol (5:53)
2. Aguamarinha (4:10)
3. Bird of paradise (5:36)
4. Sambukada (4:30)
5. Iguacu (8:42)
6. Praia lame (2:58)
7. Heavy weight (4:30)
8. Guna Guna (4:28)

personnel:

Curt Cress - drums, berimbau
Klaus Doldinger - soprano & tenor saxes, organ, Moog, flute
Elmer Louis - percussion
Roy Louis - electric guitar
Wolfgang Schmid - bass

Guest musicians:

Mats Bjorklund - guitar (8)
Wilson Das Neves - atapaques, pandeiro (4)
Roberto Bastos Pinheiro - surdo (4)
Noel Manuel Pinto - cuica (3-4)
Clelio Ribeiro - berimbau (4)
Marcello Salazar - percussion (4)
Pedro Santos - percussion, whistles (3-4)

Something strange happened when Passport went to Rio de Janeiro to cut the Iguacu album -- they seemed to forget the entire basis for their previous success. The trademark Klaus Doldinger sax sound is muted and diluted by the attempt to fit the band into a Brazilian jazz mold, and the result sounds eerily like a pretty good lounge jazz band trying to sound like Passport. The long, liquid melody lines are gone, replaced by up-tempo but unmemorable frameworks for full-band jams. Guitarist Roy Louis plays an unusually large part, Doldinger an unusually small one, and the tracks with the local Brazilian musicians are energetic but unfocused. This is one of the least compelling Passport albums, one without a single tune that stays in your head long after you hear it.