Jez Smadja: What’s interesting is that tropicália, before it was called tropicália, was known as «universal sound.»
Hermeto Pascoal: «Universal music» isn’t mine per se. Universal is the name that people give to any number of different things – there’s even the Universal Church (a huge Pentecostal church in Brazil). But tropicália was much more theatrical than what I do. It was more to see than to hear. They stopped making tropicália in the 1970s and Caetano and Gil and Gal are all doing other music now. What I’ve done is the same thing I’ve done throughout my life, from the age of eight until now, but with different touches, different rhythms, a mixture, which we call «universal music.»
Hermeto Pascoal In Memoriam
Cita tomada de la entrevista a Hermeto Pascoal publicada en agosto de 2013 en Red Bull Music Academy, y realizada por Jez Smadja. Fotografía tomada el 25 de julio de 2025, durante la actuación de Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo en el 60 Festival de Jazz de San Sebastián 2025 en el Auditorio Kursaal, por José Luis Luna Rocafort.
Cita: Hermeto Pascoal on Making “Universal Music” and Boxing Miles Davis https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2013/08/hermeto-pascoal-interview (Fecha de consulta 14/09/2025) © Jez Smadja – Red Bull Music Academy, 2013
Fotografía: © José Luis Luna Rocafort, 2025
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