Miles Davis called him “the most impressive musician in the world”. He’s Hermeto Pascoal from Brasil, and this is how he does it:
Aside from Hermeto’s infectiously liberated attitude, this performance is unique as an exploration of the physical edge of two sound mediums. He makes entirely underwater concerts seem tame by comparison.
Full disclosure: when I was in high school I used to spend a couple of hours a day in the bathtub listening to what water did to different sounds – now I can see what a flute and an explosion of yellow butterflies would have added…