Hermeto Pascoal

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Hermeto Pascoal
Brazilian music, avant-garde jazz, forró
Occupation(s)Musician, composer
Instrument(s)
  • Keyboards
  • accordion
  • flute
  • saxophone
  • guitar
Years active1964s–present
LabelsBand/musisi
WebsiteOfficial website

Hermeto Pascoal (born June 22, 1936) is a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in

Lagoa da Canoa, Alagoas, Brazil.[1] 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.[2]

Biography

Early life and career

Pascoal live in Buenos Aires 1978.

Pascoal comes from Northeastern Brazil, in an area that lacked electricity at the time he was born. He learned the accordion from his father and practiced for hours indoors, as, being albino, he was incapable of working in the countryside with the rest of his family.[2]

Hermeto's career began in 1964 with appearances on several Brazilian recordings alongside relatively unknown groups. These albums and the musicians involved (

Cesar Camargo Mariano) established widely influential new directions in post-bossa nova
Brazilian jazz.

In 1966, he played in the

Theo de Barros) and in 1967 the group, renamed Quarteto Novo, released an album that launched the careers of Pascoal and Moreira.[3]
Pascoal would then go on to join the multi-faceted group Brazilian Octopus.

International fame

Hermeto Pascoal and group, 2009

Pascoal initially caught the international public's attention with an appearance on

Jovino Santos-Neto and percussionists Nene, Pernambuco, and Zabelê
.

Known as o Bruxo (the Sorcerer), Pascoal often makes music with unconventional objects such as teapots, children's toys, and animals, as well as keyboards, button accordions, melodica, saxophones, guitars, flutes, voices, various brass and folkloric instruments.[2] 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.[2]

Between 1996 and 1997, Pascoal worked on a book project called Calendário do Som, which contains a song for every day of the year, including February 29, so that everyone would have a song for their birthday.[2]

He was married to Ilza da Silva, to whom he dedicated many compositions, from 1954 until her death in 2000. They had six children, Jorge, Fábio, Flávia, Fátima, Fabiula, and Flávio, and many grandchildren. Hermeto was later married to Aline Morena from 2003 until 2016, while living in

Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.[5][6][7]

He has since returned to the Jabour neighborhood in Bangu, Rio de Janeiro, where he spends much of his time composing, rehearsing and hosting musicians from all over the world.[7]

In 2019, his album Hermeto Pascoal e Sua Visão Original do Forró won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Portuguese Language Roots Album.[8]

Discography

As leader or member

  • 1961: Conjunto Som 4 (with Conjunto Som 4)
  • 1966: Em Som Maior (with Sambrasa Trio)
  • 1967: Quarteto Novo (with Quarteto Novo)
  • 1969: Brazilian Octopus (with Brazilian Octopus)
  • 1970: Hermeto Pascoal (solo debut, reissued on CD as Brazilian Adventure)(featuring Googie Coppola)
  • 1973: A música livre de Hermeto Pascoal
  • 1977: Slaves Mass
  • 1977: Trindade
  • 1979: Zabumbê-bum-á
  • 1979: Ao vivo Montreux Jazz Festival
  • 1979: Nova história da Música Popular Brasileira (compilation)
  • 1980: Cérebro magnético
  • 1981: Planetário da Gávea
  • 1982: Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo (reissued by Westwind Germany on CD as The Legendary Improviser. The reissue appears to be a copy from vinyl.)
  • 1984: Lagoa da Canoa, Município de Arapiraca
  • 1986: Brasil Universo
  • 1987: Só não toca quem não quer
  • 1988: Hermeto solo: por diferentes caminhos
  • 1992: Festa dos deuses
  • 1993: Instrumental no CCBB (with Renato Borghetti)
  • 1998: Música!: o melhor da música de Hermeto Pascoal (compilation)
  • 1999: Eu e eles
  • 2002: Mundo verde esperança
  • 2006: Chimarrão com rapadura (with Aline Morena)
  • 2010: Bodas de Latão (with Aline Morena)
  • 2013: Hermeto Pascoal: The Monash Sessions
  • 2017: No Mundo dos Sons
  • 2017: Viajando com o som (recorded in 1976)
  • 2017: Natureza Universal
  • 2018: Made of Music
  • 2018: E sua visão original do forró

As contributor

References

  1. ^ "Hermeto Pascoal Discography - Slipcue.com Brazilian Music Guide".
  2. ^ a b c d e f Neder, Alvaro. "Hermeto Pascoal". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-10-22.
  3. ^ "N. Scott Robinson-World Music and Percussion, Frame Drums, Riq, Tambourines". Nscottrobinson.com. Retrieved 2011-10-22.
  4. ^ Tamarkin, Jeff (2018). "Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo Vice Versa: Viajando Com O Som (The Lost '76 Vice-Versa Studio Session) (Far Out)". JazzTimes. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Aos 77 anos, músico cult Hermeto Pascoal agora quer ser pop - 23/02/2014 - Serafina - Folha de S.Paulo". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2016-01-10.
  6. ^ "Aline e Hermeto - namoro musical em Santa Felicidade". Gazeta do Povo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  7. ^ a b "Aos 80, multi-instrumentista Hermeto Pascoal ainda se sente uma criança". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  8. ^ Cabo, Leila (14 November 2019). "Latin Grammys 2019 Winners: Complete List". Billboard. MRC. Retrieved 9 September 2020.

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