So Nao Toca Quem Nao Quer: Only If You Don't Want It (CD - 1987)

Album Description: Personnel includes: Hermeto Pascoal (various instruments).
Recorded at Nossoestudio, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
A musical maverick even by the liberal standards of tropicalia, Pascoal is a vis.... Read More

Album Description: Personnel includes: Hermeto Pascoal (various instruments).
Recorded at Nossoestudio, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
A musical maverick even by the liberal standards of tropicalia, Pascoal is a visionary composer/multi-instrumentalist who fuses so many disparate strands of music together that his style is a paradigm unto itself. Over the course of this album, he touches on jazz, avant-garde experimentalism, Brazilian folk, chamber music, and pop. One moment the listener is suckered in by a romantic accordion/piano duet, the next moment the scenery changes, as male and female voices scream out over urgent, angular rhythms and discordant keyboards. Sunny woodwinds vie for space with what sounds like the Art Ensemble of Chicago meeting a crazed triangle player in the Lounge Lizards' living room. No matter how far out Pascoal gets, though, his romantic streak ensures that there's plenty of pastoral contrast. That combination of invention and romanticism is uniquely Brazilian, and distinctly Pascoal. Minimize