Hermeto Pascoal: a tropical lunatic

A documentary directed by Yves Billon.

Synopsis

He plays the accor­dion, the tuba and the sax­o­phone. Any­thing which can pro­duce a noise is good enough for Her­meto Pas­coal to make music with. He has made music with sal­vage equip­ment such as old plas­tic tubes and all kinds of craps. He has even made a record with a flock of pigs! For Her­meto Pas­coal music is part of his every­day life. He lives together with his musi­cians. Each new day is for them an oppor­tu­nity to find new sound mix­ing which will be inte­grated to the master’s and his musi­cians’ com­pletely invented style which orig­i­nates in Nordeste roots.