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Light As A Feather

by Azymuth

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Light As A Feather via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      £12 GBP

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      £8 GBP  or more

     

  • Vinyl LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Light As A Feather via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Limited Edition Blue Vinyl LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Light As A Feather via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Azymuth Illustration T-Shirt
    T-Shirt/Shirt

    Introducing the Far Out Masters series!

    Far Out Recordings launches an exclusive, limited-edition series of T-shirts featuring some of the label's most iconic music makers, in collaboration with São Paulo based artist Talita Hoffman

    Printed on 100% cotton T-shirts

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Amazonia 00:48
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Dona Olimpia 02:46
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about

Azymuth's career-defining LP Light As A Feather returns. Home to their worldwide disco/fusion hit single ‘Jazz Carnival’, the samba-doido staple 'Partido Alto', and the proto-deep house masterpiece ‘Avenida Das Mangueiras’, this album typifies the trio’s tireless innovation in the fields of jazz, funk, samba and cosmic music perhaps more so than any of their other ground-breaking records from its era.

Their first release on Milestone Records in 1979, it quickly became one of the best-selling LPs of the year, staying in the UK Top 20 for eight straight weeks with more than half a million copies sold. An incredibly well thought out album both in pace, song selection and musicality, ‘Light As A Feather’ marked a maturing of the band as they began to rightfully utilise the studio as an instrument itself, embracing numerous mixing and recording techniques not yet common for the time as well as pioneering the use of the Big Muff and Dolby System to great effect. The result is an album that endures to this day as a samba/jazz-funk masterpiece.

First reissued in 2012, the Far Out edition of this seminal recording was remixed and re-mastered from the original 16-track tapes, which were given to Joe Davis by Azymuth. This latest version is the first ever issue to be complete with a download card that that gives access to previously unreleased tracks, including the incredible full length version of 'Jazz Carnival', as well as remixes from house stalwarts Theo Parrish, Ashley Beedle, and Mark E.

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released November 19, 2012

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