Itiberê Orquestra Família

Itibere Orquestra Familia is a 29-piece Brazilian group founded and led by bassist and composer Itiberê Zwarg -- the longest-serving member of Hermeto Pascoal's groundbreaking ensemble Su Grupo. Their groove-laden sound is dubbed, like Pascoal's own art, "universal music," that weds jazz fusion, funk, Brazilian polyharmonic, polyrhythmic folk sounds, and the angular, progressive rock sophistication of Frank Zappa. Different from a traditional orchestra, the group doesn't use scores, they make sound in real time guided by Zwarg -- the music is charted on paper to serve as a rec...