Madman or Genius? Hermeto Pascoal

Hermeto Pascoal (born June 22, 1936) is a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in Lagoa da Canoa, Alagoas, Brazil. Pascoal is a greatly beloved musical figure in the history of Brazilian music, known for his abilities at orchestration and improvisation, as well as being a record producer and contributor to many other Brazilian and international albums.

Known as o Bruxo (the Sorcerer), Hermeto often makes music with unconventional objects such as teapots, children's toys, and animals, as well as keyboards, button accordion, melodica, saxophone, guitar, flute, voice, various brass and folkloric instruments.[2] Perhaps because he grew up in the countryside, he uses nature as a basis for his compositions, as in his Música da Lagoa, in which the musicians burble water and play flutes while immersed in a lagoon: a Brazilian television broadcast from 1999 showed him soloing at one point by singing into a cup with his mouth partially submerged in water. Folk music from rural Brazil is another important influence in his work.

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[wrdeer]

Where's the mad? This is just pure genius.

[JazzVideoGuy]

@wrdeer yes!

[Nathant888]

He's a Madman Genius.

[Alexanderrayman]

As JazzVideoGuy said, Pascoal is pure genius. He's one of my favorite composers, his music is so perfect it almost makes me cry.

[matheus229]

BRAZILIAN MUSIC!!!!!!!

[INTraveler1990]

a bit of the two lol

[Toracube]

He's Bonkers But I love him.

[zskjvbkjsdk]

he is ORANGUTAN !

[maisqpoesia9999lcg]

Brilliant!!!!!! I love it!!!

[khasslen]

I guess I should have specified it is hard to find Hermeto content at record stores these days. There are tons of you tube videos!!

[khasslen]

Thanks so much for posting. It's so tough to find Hermeto content anywhere these days. His album Slaves Mass from 1977 is pure genius. His band for that release consisted of Ron Carter, Airto, Chester Thompson, Flora Purim, Alphonso Johnson and Raul Souza...