Hermeto Pascoal is a prolific musician and composer who transcends category. Hermeto often uses unconventional instruments such as teapots, children's toys, found objects, and—sometimes, without harming them—live animals. He uses nature as a basis for his compositions, as in his Música da Lagoa, where the musicians burble water and play flutes while immersed in a lagoon. He is an energetic and virtuosic soloist who can play proficiently on almost any instrument: keyboards, button accordion, saxophone, guitar, flute, voice, various brass instruments, and various folkloric instruments. A Brazilian television broadcast from 1999 showed him soloing at one point by singing into a cup with his mouth partially submerged in water.
Hermeto's career began in 1964 with appearances on several Brazilian recordings with relatively small groups. These now-classic albums and the musicians involved (Edu Lobo, Airto Moreira, Elis Regina, César Camargo Mariano and others) established widely influential new directions in post-bossa Brazilian Jazz.
He initially came to the international public's attention through an appearance on Miles Davis' 1971 album Live/Evil, which featured Pascoal on several studio pieces (which he also composed). Davis has said that Pascoal was “the most impressive musician in the world”. Later collaborations involved fellow Brazilian musicians Airto Moreira and Flora Purim. From the late 1970s on he has mostly led his own groups, playing at many prestigious venues, such as the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1979. / allaboutjazz.com
Tracks
01. De Sábado irá Dominguinhos (Hermeto Pascoal)
02. Meu barco (Antonio Bruno Zwarg/Ernesto Zwarg)
03. Viagem (Hermeto Pascoal)
04. Zurich (Ernesto Pascal)
05. O Correio (Antonio Bruno Zwarg/Ernesto Zwarg)
06. Intocável (Hermeto Pascoal)
07. Flavia (Hermeto Pascoal)
08. Cadango (Hermeto Pascoal)
09. Suíte Mundo grande (Hermeto Pascoal)
10. Parnapuã (Antonio Bruno Zwarg/Ernesto Swarg)
11. Cancão da Tarde (Hermeto Pascoal)
12. Mente Clara (Hermeto Pascoal)
13. Ilha das Gaivotas (Hermeto Pascoal)
14. Republico (Hermeto Pascoal)
15. Conventó (Antonio Bruno Zwarg/Ernesto Swarg)
16. Quiabo (Hermeto Pascoal)
17. Menina Azul (Hermeto Pascoal)
18. Garrote (Hermeto Pascoal)
19. Rancho das Sogras (Hermeto Pascoal)
CARLOS MALTA saxophones, flutes
JOVINO SANTOS NETO keyboards, flutes
ITIBERÊ ZWARG bass
MARCIO BAHIA drums
PERNAMBUCO percussion
HERMETO PASCOAL piano, bandola, cp-80, keyboards, flugelhorn, tuba, percussion, harmonium,flute, craviola, sanfona, bombardino, clavinet
Guest musicians:
DOMINGHINHOS sanfona (1)
RAFAEL REBELLO acoustic guitar (6)
TECO CARDOSO flute (8)
MAURO RODRIGUEZ flute (8)
ARISMAR DO ESPIRITO SANTO bass solo (16)
SILVANA MALTA, ANA MARIA MALTA, ANTONIO BRUNO ZWARG vocals
Recorded March 1987 at Nossoestudio, São Paulo
Intuition Records INT 2019-2 Germany