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Hermeto Pascoal's seminal 1970 debut album set for reissue

Hermeto Pascoal's seminal 1970 debut album set for reissue

Release date: 31st March 2023 (originally released: 22nd June 1970) | Format: Vinyl LP/ CD | Cat No: FORDIS07 Far Out Recordings proudly presents Hermeto Pascoal’s remarkable self-titled debut album. Recorded in 1970 at A&R studios in New York, the album features certified North American titans including Ron Carter, Hubert Laws, Joe Farrel and Googie Coppola, and Brazilian stars Airto Moreira and Flora Purim (who also produced the album). While it was Hermeto’s first album released under his own name, he had spent the decade or so prior making a name for himself in Brazil and internationally as a composer, arranger...

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Azymuth, Joyce, Marcos Valle & Hermeto Pascoal T-shirts | The Far Out Masters Series

Azymuth, Joyce, Marcos Valle & Hermeto Pascoal T-shirts | The Far Out Masters Series

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.Printed on 100% cotton T-shirtsFits true to size Begins shipping 25th June 2022 Also available on Bandcamp

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Hermeto Pascoal announces a previously unreleased live album recorded in a planetarium in 1981

Hermeto Pascoal announces a previously unreleased live album recorded in a planetarium in 1981

Release date: 4th February 2022 | Formats: Double Vinyl, Double CD & Digital On a balmy Brazilian night in February, 1981, a crowd gathered in Rio de Janeiro's Gávea neighbourhood under the iconic dome of the city's Planetário (Planetarium). Alongside musicians like Helio Delmiro and Milton Nascimento (who were in the audience that night), they were there to see the great "Bruxo" (sorcerer) Hermeto Pascoal live in concert, with his new band formation which would become known simply as "O Grupo" (The Group). © Thomaz Farkas Estate  Growing up on a farm in Brazil's northeastern state of Alagoas, Hermeto has always...

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Itiberê Orquestra Família - Pedra do Espia

Itiberê Orquestra Família - Pedra do Espia

Release date: 23rd November 2018 | Format: Vinyl LP / Double CD / Digital  Itiberê Zwarg is an award-winning Brazilian bassist and the longest-serving member of Hermeto Pascoal’s ground-breaking ensemble ‘O Grupo’. Since their first meeting in 1977, the two have been closely collaborating to create a unique musical language: a genre-defying polyharmonic, polyrhythmic music, now widely studied by musicians and musicologists alike, known as ‘Universal Music’. Back in 2001, Itiberê led a workshop at Villa Lobos School of Music, with twenty-nine of Rio de Janeiro’s most exceptionally talented young musicians. Employing the principles of Universal Music alongside his long-held...

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Sean Khan featuring Hermeto Pascoal | Palmares Fantasy

Sean Khan featuring Hermeto Pascoal | Palmares Fantasy

Release date: 11th May 2018 | Formats: Vinyl LP/ CD/ Digital For his third album for Far Out Recordings, London based multi-instrumentalist and one of Europe’s finest saxophonists Sean Khan ventures to Rio de Janeiro to collaborate with iconic Brazilian polymath Hermeto Pascoal. Taking its title from the escaped slave settlement ‘Palmares’ in the Northeast of Brazil during the 1600s, Palmares Fantasy is Khan’s utopian jazz message for the world, and features Azymuth drummer Ivan ‘Mamao’ Conti, bassist Paulo Russo, guitarist Jim Mullen, and guest vocals from Brazilian chanteuse Sabrina Malheiros, and Cinematic Orchestra frontwoman Heidi Vogel. Like Hermeto Pascoal,...

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