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

by Hermeto Pascoal

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David Markfield
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David Markfield Amazing Brazilian jazz by the Master Favorite track: Casinha Pequenina.
Camilo Boudreaux
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Camilo Boudreaux the whole album is Fire 🔥
Cosmographer
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Cosmographer Hermeto is arguably Brazil's greatest musician ever. This session is beautifully recorded; the cat-and-mouse interplay of these master musicians is telepathic and achieve levels of pure eargasm in the long final track.

If you like music for music's sake, this album will give you a run for your money like few records will.

Genius. Favorite track: Casinha Pequenina.
ermonnezza74
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ermonnezza74 if you like 70's Egberto Gismonti, check this out
Robert Bloemkolk
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Robert Bloemkolk Great album by this Brazilian maverick. A magic session which deserves the tag: lost classic. Favorite track: Dança do Pajé.
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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Includes Extensive Digital Booklet, Original Sheet Music and Hermeto's Chordal Notation
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Contains a minor misprint. Catalogue number is FARO200LPX rather than FARO200LP. One for the misprint collectors! 120 units only.

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  • Vinyl LP
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    180g vinyl

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  • Limited Edition Green Vinyl LP
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    White label TP. Limited edition of 5. Housed in a generic test pressing sleeve.

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    Introducing the Far Out Masters series!

    Far Out Recordings launches an exclusive, limited-edition series of T-shirts featuring some of the label's most iconic music makers, in collaboration with São Paulo based artist Talita Hoffman

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    Sealed copy with minor corner dent/crease. Price has been reduced to reflect this.

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about

There have been few musicians to ever reach the stature of Hermeto Pascoal. A true maestro and a cultural icon, he represents the highest level of musical evolution; as a multi-instrumentalist, as a composer, and as an arranger. Once described by Miles Davis as “the most impressive musician in the world”, there is good reason (beyond his Gandalf-like appearance) why he is known as "O Bruxo" (the Wizard).

For the label’s  200th release, Far Out Recordings proudly presents a previously unreleased album by Hermeto Pascoal and his ‘Grupo Vice Versa’: Viajando Com O Som (the lost ’76 Vice Versa Studio Sessions).

Recorded in just two days in 1976, at Rogério Duprat's Vice Versa Studios, São Paulo, the sessions featured Hermeto’s go-to ‘Paulista’ rhythm section: Zé Eduardo Nazario (drums), Zeca Assumpção (bass) and Lelo Nazario (electric piano), as well as saxophonists Mauro Senise, Raul Mascarenhas and Nivaldo Ornerlas, guitarist Toninho Horta and vocalist Aleuda Chaves. Hermeto decided he would record with this particular group following a show at Teatro Bandeirantes, during which an almost spiritual musical connection amongst the group was realised. The performance lasted hours on end, without any breaks in playing, and Hermeto saw the potential for his compositions to reach a ‘higher level’ as the music organically moved from structured compositions to ‘freer’ improvisational works.

In the studio, the sound engineer Renato Viola understood that things needed to happen quickly. Almost everything recorded on the first take ended up staying in the final mix. After the mixdown, Lelo Nazario would ask Renato to make him a copy of all the material, from machine to machine. As far as we know, the master tape eventually got lost over time, but Lelo kept his copy in his studio’s archives, where it stayed for over forty years.

With the tape rescued and restored, this release fills a void in time. Recorded at an especially experimental period in Hermeto’s career, it’s a compelling insight into the incredible efforts of this group, who under Hermeto’s revolutionary vision, created a unique musical language which would have a profound influence on countless artists to come.

Nowadays, the 1970s is indeed considered a golden age of Brazilian music, but it’s often forgotten how desperately hard it was for artists to get their music past the military dictatorship’s censorship efforts throughout the decade. Yet in 1976, despite the often musically radical nature of Hermeto Pascoal’s compositions, he was in a typically productive phase of his career. The year before the release of his seminal album Slaves Mass, ‘76 saw Hermeto amass performance credits on Flora Purim’s ‘Open Your Eyes You Can Fly’, OPA’s ‘Goldenwings’ and Cal Tjader’s ‘Amazonas’ to name just a few.

The release of Viajando Com O Som re-writes the already remarkable story of one of the world’s most supernaturally talented musicians, whilst illuminating a truly magical, yet hitherto lost and forgotten moment of Brazilian musical history.

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released November 3, 2017

Hermeto Pascoal : Electric Piano, Flute, Voice
Lelo Nazario : Electric Piano
Nivaldo Ornelas : Tenor Sax, Flute
Mauro Senise : Saxophones, Flute
Raul Mascarenhas : Saxophones, Flute
Toninho Horta : Guitar
Zeca Assumpção : Bass
Zé Eduardo Nazario :
Drums, Percussion, Voice, Bamboo Harmonic Flute solo on "Natal"
Aleuda Chaves : Vocals

Produced by Hermeto Pascoal
Recorded at Vice-Versa Studio, São Paulo
Engineered by Renato Viola
Mixed by Hermeto Pascoal, Lelo Nazario, Zé Eduardo
Mastered by Pete Norman at Finyl Tweek

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