On a balmy Brazilian night in February, 1981, a crowd gathered in Rio de Janeiro’s Gávea district, under the iconic dome of the city’s planetarium. 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).

Growing up on a farm in Brazil’s northeastern state of Alagoas, Hermeto has always been deeply in tune with, and inspired by nature. In his youth he would make his own flutes to play call and response with the birds, frogs and cicadas. He built scrap-metal instruments in his blacksmith grandfather's forge, and would sit for hours by the lake listening to the sounds of the water. But on the Planetário Da Gávea recordings, Hermeto is the sorcerer: the cosmic emissary - as the great Brazilian guitarist Guinga once named him - exhibiting his intuitive sense of harmony with a nature beyond that of our own worlds’.

“Tudo e Som” (All is Sound). It’s a phrase Hermeto regularly returns to, and it points to the fact that music can be made from anything. A virtuoso of practically every instrument he has ever touched, Hermeto has also been known to solo on a pint of beer, a body of water, his own beard, and pigs (both toy and live). But “Tudo e Som” alludes to something much more profound. It’s an understanding of the universe as being in a state of constant movement, forever vibrating at the quantum level, like the string of a guitar, or a saxophone’s reed. “Tudo e Som” is a declaration of the mystical and spiritual power of sound, as a fundamentally vibrational force. 

Dubbed by Miles Davis as “one of the most important musicians on the planet”, a Hermeto Pascoal live show was (and still is) an experience like no other. Across the recording of the planetarium concert, wild improvisation meets groovy, virtuosic vamping on progressive, extended psychedelic jams. The tracks are usually built around a beautiful, transcendent melody; instantly recognisable as being Hermetos’. There’s a plethora of powerfully delivered rhythms from Brazil and beyond, and the performance is punctuated by Hermeto’s unpredictable, at times comical sonic antics, offering a true expression of a creatively liberated mind overflowing with musical ideas. 

The series of concerts at the planetarium marked the birth of O Grupo: the formation of Hermeto’s band which would last for eleven years. Every member of O Grupo are phenomenal musicians in their own right. It was saxophonist and flautist Carlos Malta's first gig with the group, and the concert unusually featured two drummers, Zé Eduardo Nazário and Marcio Bahia. Zé from Sao Paulo had played with Hermeto during the mid-70s (as well as Milton Nascimento, Egberto Gismonti and Toninho Horta, to name a few). Marcio had joined the group more recently, and his CV included playing with Maria Bethania, Marcos Valle and Roberto Menescal. Acclaimed keyboard player Jovino Santos Neto provides the exalted keyboards, piano and organ and the great Itibere Zwarg, who remains in Hermeto’s band to this day, plays bass. During this period the group were rehearsing for hours on end, seven days a week, with a total dedication to music and Hermeto’s musical vision.

Over forty years since this historic happening, Far Out Recordings is overjoyed to release this magical recording of Hermeto Pascoal e Grupo Live at Planetário Da Gávea, on double vinyl LP, CD and digitally for a January 4th 2022 release.

Hermeto Pascaol - Jegue

Vinheta - Marcos Valle (sample)
Sarah Vaughan ‎– The boy from Ipanema 1964 (sample)
Latin Snowfall- Henry Mancini (sample)
Champagne and Quail - Henry Mancini ( C67 Re-edit)

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Here, for volume six, we present recent finds and treasured classics from Brazil, Sweden, the USA, South Africa, Portugal, Japan, Trinidad and Tobago, and Canada. We have included selections by the Brazilian rising star Dora Morelenbaum as well as from heritage-Brazilian musicians and vocalists Haréton Salvanini, Copa 7, and Mirna. There’s also the wonderful Brazilian-not-Brazilian take of 'Ye Me Le' by Hazel Scott And The Braza Brasil, plus sublime gospel from the New York Community Choir. We’ve picked disco and soul rarities by General Lee and Ash Soul, Inc., and for the first time on vinyl, an incredible psych-pop song by the illustrious Matthew Tavares. There are cuts from some of our favourite contemporary Swedish musicians, Sven Wunder and Dina Ögon too. This compilation is packed full of gems that are plucked from differing times and spaces, but somehow all gel together beautifully. We hope you love them too. 

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