Light My Fire

Eliane Elias is known for her distinctive and immediately recognizable musical style. Her new album, Along with four compositions written or co-written by Elias herself, Light My Fire also includes covers of familiar works by songwriters as diverse as Jim Morrison and the Doors, Pop Icon Stevie Wonder and Jazz saxophonist Paul Desmond. Elias weaves it all together into a cohesive whole by injecting each of the twelve songs with distinctly Brazilian grooves that alternate effortlessly between the fiery and passionate to the cool and sophisticated. Backing Elias on Light My Fire is a crew of twelve high-caliber players, including special guests guitarist/vocalist Gilberto Gil and trumpeter Randy Brecker. The rhythm section - which has accompanied Elias on several of her most recent recordings - includes guitarist Oscar Castro-Neve's, bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Paulo Braga. Also on hand to sing with Elias and Gil on "Toda Menina Baiana" is Elias? daughter, singer/songwriter Amanda Brecker. New to the Elias team, is percussionist Marivaldo dos Santos, drummer Rafael Barata, guitarists Romero Lubambo and Ross Traut, and flutist Lawrence Feldman.