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Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo: Pra você, Ilza

by Katchie Cartwright
June 24, 2024

During her final year on the planet, Hermeto Pascoal filled a notebook with chorinhos and other musical offerings to Ilza da Silva Pascoal, his wife of 46 years (1954-2000). Twenty-four years after her death, the great Brazilian sorcerer of universal music presents us with 13 precious songs from his Ilza notebook in the form of a recording, the enchanting and poignant Pra Você, Ilza. In the album notes, he writes of her in the present tense: “Our love, our spirit, ...