CURATION
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by Matrix
Network Node
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Name:
Aiace
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City/Place:
Salvador, Bahia
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Country:
Brazil
Life & Work
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Bio:
Aiace emerge como uma voz distintiva na nova geração de cantautoras baianas. Graduada em Canto Popular pela Universidade Federal da Bahia, ela é membro do grupo Sertanília. Seu álbum solo de estreia, "Dentro Ali", lançado em 2017, marcou o início de uma jornada musical impressionante. No ano seguinte, Aiace foi escolhida para se apresentar em dois importantes eventos: a Feira Internacional de Música do Sul, em Curitiba, e o Música Mundo, em Minas Gerais, destacando-se como a única representante da Bahia em ambos os line-ups.
Além disso, Aiace participou de diversos eventos notáveis, como o Festival Suíça Bahiana 2018, o Festival Hype em Salvador e o Projeto Sons da África em Recife, onde dividiu o palco com a cantora Mariama, da Serra Leoa. Suas apresentações abrangem desde eventos locais até internacionais, como a Noite Medusa: Aiace & Mutum em São Paulo, parte da SIM São Paulo, o Festival Atlantikaldia no País Basco/Espanha e o Sofar Sounds Madrid, na Espanha.
Em 2019, Aiace expandiu sua presença musical, participando do Festival Psicodália em Santa Catarina e realizando uma turnê pelo sul e sudeste do Brasil. Ela também marcou presença em eventos internacionais, como a Feira Circulart na Colômbia. Seu single "Pra Curar" foi lançado no mesmo ano, consolidando ainda mais sua posição na cena musical.
A música de Aiace é uma fusão envolvente de ritmos brasileiros, jazz e elementos pop e rock, enraizada nas tradições afro-baianas. Ela compartilha temas atemporais em suas letras, levando os ouvintes a uma jornada rica em nuances e texturas. Reconhecida tanto pelo seu trabalho solo quanto pelo seu papel no Sertanília, Aiace tem sido aclamada pela crítica e pelo público, recebendo indicações e prêmios em diversos eventos e premiações musicais. Com sua voz doce e expressiva, ela continua a encantar e inspirar com sua música única.
English:
Aiace emerges as a distinctive voice in the new generation of Bahian singer-songwriters. A graduate in Popular Singing from the Federal University of Bahia, she is a member of the group Sertanília. Her debut solo album, "Dentro Ali," released in 2017, marked the beginning of an impressive musical journey. The following year, Aiace was chosen to perform at two important events: the Feira Internacional de Música do Sul in Curitiba, and the Música Mundo in Minas Gerais, standing out as the sole representative of Bahia in both line-ups.
Furthermore, Aiace has participated in several notable events such as the 2018 Festival Suíça Bahiana, the Festival Hype in Salvador, and the Projeto Sons da África in Recife, where she shared the stage with the singer Mariama from Sierra Leone. Her performances range from local to international events, including the Night Medusa: Aiace & Mutum in São Paulo, part of the SIM São Paulo, the Atlantikaldia Festival in the Basque Country/Spain, and Sofar Sounds Madrid in Spain.
In 2019, Aiace expanded her musical presence by participating in the Psicodália Festival in Santa Catarina and touring the south and southeast of Brazil. She also made appearances at international events such as the Circulart Fair in Colombia. Her single "Pra Curar" was released in the same year, further solidifying her position in the music scene.
Aiace's music is an engaging fusion of Brazilian rhythms, jazz, and elements of pop and rock, rooted in Afro-Bahian traditions. She explores timeless themes in her lyrics, taking listeners on a journey rich in nuances and textures. Recognized for both her solo work and her role in Sertanília, Aiace has been acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, receiving nominations and awards at various music events and awards ceremonies. With her sweet and expressive voice, she continues to captivate and inspire with her unique music.
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This Integrated Global Creative Economy uncoils from a sprawling Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian cultural matrix...
Great culture is great power.
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers (BOSTON): Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory ... Former personal recording engineer for Prince; "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd Webber (LONDON): Premier cellist in UK; brother of Andrew (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad (RIO DE JANEIRO/CHICAGO): Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze (LOS ANGELES): manager, Kamasi Washington
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
Our Matrix was conceived under a Spiritus Mundi ranging from the quilombos and senzalas of Cachoeira and Santo Amaro to Havana and the provinces of Cuba to the wards of New Orleans to the South Side of Chicago to the sidewalks of Harlem to the townships of South Africa to the villages of Ireland to the Roma camps of France and Belgium to the Vienna of Beethoven to the shtetls of Eastern Europe...*
Sodré
*...in conversation with Raymundo Sodré, who summed up the irony in this sequence by opining for the ages: "Where there's misery, there's music!" Hence A Massa, anthem for the trod-upon folk of Brazil, which blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south until...
And hence a platform whereupon all creators tend to accessible proximity to all other creators, irrespective of degree of fame, location, or the censor.
Matrix Ground Zero is the Recôncavo, bewitching and bewitched, contouring the resplendent Bay of All Saints (end of clip below, before credits), absolute center of terrestrial gravity for the disembarkation of enslaved human beings (and for the sublimity these people created), the bay presided over by Brazil's ineffable Black Rome (where Bule Bule is seated below, around the corner from where we built this matrix as an extension of our record shop).
Assis Valente's (of Santo Amaro, Bahia) "Brasil Pandeiro" filmed by Betão Aguiar
Betão Aguiar
("Black Rome" is an appellation per Caetano, via Mãe Aninha of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá.)
Replete with Brazilian greatness, but we listened to Miles Davis and Jimmy Cliff in there too; visitors are David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR/WXPN
I opened the shop in Salvador, Bahia in 2005 in order to create an outlet to the wider world for magnificent Brazilian musicians.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar found us (he's a huge jazz fan), David Byrne, Oscar Castro-Neves... Spike Lee walked past the place while I was sitting on the stoop across the street drinking beer and listening to samba from the speaker in the window...
But we weren't exactly easy for the world-at-large to get to. So in order to extend the place's ethos I transformed the site associated with it into a network wherein Brazilian musicians I knew would recommend other Brazilian musicians, who would recommend others...
And as I anticipated, the chalky hand of God-as-mathematician intervened: In human society — per the small-world phenomenon — most of the billions of us on earth are within some 6 or fewer degrees of each other. Likewise, within a network of interlinked artists as I've described above, most of these artists will in the same manner be at most a handful of steps away from each other.
So then, all that's necessary to put the Brazilians within possible purview of the wide wide world is to include them among a wide wide range of artists around that world.
If, for example, Quincy Jones is inside the matrix, then anybody on his page — whether they be accessing from a campus in L.A., a pub in Dublin, a shebeen in Cape Town, a tent in Mongolia — will be close, transitable steps away from Raymundo Sodré, even if they know nothing of Brazil and are unaware that Sodré sings/dances upon this planet. Sodré, having been knocked from the perch of fame and ground into anonymity by Brazil's dictatorship, has now the alternative of access to the world-at-large via recourse to the vast potential of network theory.
...to the degree that other artists et al — writers, researchers, filmmakers, painters, choreographers...everywhere — do also. Artificial intelligence not required. Real intelligence, yes.
The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
Salvador is our base. If you plan to visit Bahia, there are some things you should probably know and you should first visit:
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Wolfram MathWorld
Ex Terra Brasilis
Alicia Svigals
Susan Rogers
Julian Lloyd Webber
Clarice Assad
Kamasi Washington
Randy Brecker
Roberto Mendes
Luciano Calazans
Gustavo Caribé
J Velloso
Lázaro Ramos
Fernando Guerreiro
Maria Marighella
Russell Okung
Bule Bule
Caetano Veloso
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