Showing posts with label Hermeto Pascoal. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Hermeto Pascoal!

Yo! if you haven't ever checked out Hermeto Pascoal's ridiculously amazing Brazilian samba/folk/jazz/avant-garde/rock fusion you should check this video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfvHfPxkUbk&feature=related
 

"O bruxo" has perfect pitch beyond what I can comprehend, and writes truly beautiful, complex, sometimes scary, always grooving music and plays it on whatever is around him (including water):





This one's pretty heart wrenching(in large part due to the beautifully sad music) for us tree-climbers:

Cave percussion!?!?:

There's a really sick one of him playing percussion on plates and silverware, but I can't seem to find it. If you do let me know!