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Hermeto Pascoal Revisited

ermeto Pascoal is a genius. After working together, Miles Davis called him “one of the most important musicians on the planet.” As a child in northeastern Brazil with very poor eyesight, needing to stay out of the sun due to his albino complexion, he spent a lot of time alone, listening. The sounds of his grandfather’s blacksmith shop, of his family’s farm animals, of leaves in the

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