Viajando Com o Som (The Lost '76 Vice-Versa Studio Session)

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Miles Davis, when asked how he would like to be reincarnated, answered: “In a musician like that crazy albino.” He was talking about Hermeto Pascoal, the virtuoso multi-instrumentalist and unpredictable tinkerer, just as able to make a teapot resonate as to make a pig sing. 100% Brazilian and rather jazz-oriented, this irrepressible improviser, now an octogenarian, has a long career behind him. But his archives still have some hidden treasures. In 1976 in Sao Paulo, shortly after a concert during which the interactions between the musicians were exceptional, Hermeto Pascoal gathered them together in the Vice Versa studio, which belonged to Rogério Duprat, a historic arranger of the Tropicalist movement. Around Pascal, the keyboard player Lelo Nazario, guitarist Toninho, saxophonists Mauro Senise, Raul Mascarenhas and Nivalfo Ornelas, singer Aleuda Chaves Horta, bass player Zeca Assumpção and percussionist Zé Eduardo Nazario find again this magical spirit that drove them a few days earlier. They improvise four tracks (one of them even lasts 26 minutes!) that bring joy to the one nicknamed as the Sorcerer (O Bruxo). But the tapes were forgotten and lost, until recent days, when Lelo Nazario rediscovered his copy of the mix. An exceptional document, Viajando com o Som (Travelling with the sound) is a surprising journey through time and into one of the most fertile imaginations in the musical world. © BM/Qobuz