HERMETO PASCOAL – Hermeto (1970)

Hermeto Pascoal (born 1936) is a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. Pascoal is best known in Brazilian music for his orchestration and improvisation, as well as for being a record producer and contributor to many Brazilian and international albums. Wikipedia

Hermeto is an outstanding figure in the history of Brazilian (and world) music, recognized for his skills in orchestration and improvisation, as well as being a music producer and collaborator on several national and international albums. Known as “The Wizard”, Pascoal often makes music with unconventional objects such as teapots, children’s toys, his beard, even animals. Perhaps because having grown up in the countryside, he uses nature as a basis for his compositions, as in his Música da Lagoa, in which the musicians bubble water and play flutes immersed in a lagoon: a Brazilian television station in 1999 showed him soloing at one point, singing in a glass with the mouth partially submerged in water.