A tribute to Hermeto Pascoal

In honor of the great avant-garde musician, multi-instrumentalist and composer Hermeto Pascoal, the Berlin Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Glatzel, is teaming up with his long-time band 'Hermetos Mothership' for a joint tribute concert.

'Hermetos Mothership', known as Nave Mae in Brazil, was founded by Itibere Zwarg, Fabio Pascoal, Andre Marques, Ajurina Zwarg and Jota P. and consists of the musicians who accompanied Hermeto Pascoal on concert tours around the globe for decades until his death in 2025. They will be reinforced this evening by flutist Mariana Zwarg G, Hermeto's goddaughter and daughter of Itibere Zwarg, who carries on the musical heritage from the family.

Since its inception, the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra has brought together a wide variety of musical styles, schools and cultures in an original way. It currently performs with up to twelve musicians from eight different nations. This year, the ensemble is celebrating its twentieth anniversary with several concerts in Berlin.

In summer 2015, there was a unique collaboration between Hermeto Pascoal and the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra. He traveled to Berlin with some of his fellow musicians for joint performances with the ensemble. His music was specially rearranged for these concerts by composer, arranger and saxophonist Daniel Glatzel. According to Hermeto Pascoal, it was the first and only time that he played his own music outside Brazil with arrangements made by someone else.

This extraordinary musical collaboration once again honors one of Brazil's most important musicians and a work that continues to surprise, touch and liberate today. As Hermeto Pascoal always said: The Mothership was built to fly on.