This is a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes (people) inside it are — mirroring human society — within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable steps away from everybody else in the arts world, and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:
THIS MATRIX, THOUGH BRAZIL-BORN, IS UNIVERSAL
This Alain Pérez matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Alain Pérez.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Alain Pérez (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Alain Pérez's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
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Who & Where
- Name: Alain Pérez
- City/Place: Madrid
- Country: Spain
- Hometown: Trinidad, Cuba
Life & Work
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Bio:
Alain Perez was born on April 20th, 1977 in Trinidad, Cuba.
He began as a vocalist in the Cielito Lindo group at 8 years old.
In 1988 he began his studies at the Manuel Saumel conservatory: classic guitar lessons, piano lessons and other subjects related to music.
1995 saw his first international presentation as vocalist in the Latin Jazz group Irakere, with Chucho Valdez.
He's gone on to also master the bass and now performs widely with his big band.
Contact Information
- Email: alain@alainperez.net
Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: alainperez
- ▶ Instagram: _alainperez_
- ▶ Website: http://www.alainperez.net
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AlainPerezTV
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCyU8vQ_a9O7ErFoaEiuM4Cg
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/2rAOxvogVBYoZPA3rN7bQb
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/2btVcSfbVf7KvGUoZBR1ob
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/4HBhnjVxwhcQEAJHxDzFpf
- ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/4JEwiSKGPFOdArDHPIZAQX
- ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/4mALhXrX3MfcjU53B6kbZf
- ▶ Spotify 6: http://open.spotify.com/album/4JHpGti8ifYLzVyuwt2xew
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
My Influences:
Mi Padre mi Madre la familia, los músicos de mi pueblo mí barrio, Cuba y toda su gente, Cielito Lindo, Chucho Valdez y el Irakere, Isaac Delgado, Arsenio Rodríguez, Chapotín, Benny More, Miguelito Cuni, Miguelito Valdez, Machito, Mario Bauza,Graciela, Celeste Mendoza, Celia Cruz, La Lupe, Maria Teresa Vera, Elena Burke, Omara Portuondo, Orquesta Aragón, Juan Formel y los Van Van, Oscar de León, José Alberto el Canario, Rolando Laserie, NG la Banda, Opus 13,Pablo Milanes, Silvio Rodríguez, Trío Matamoros, Sindo Garay, Ñico Saquito, Ignacio Piñeiro, Compay Segundo, Conjunto Casino, Roberto Faz, Barbarito Diez,Tito Gómez, Camaron,Caracol, Enrique Morente, Diego el Cigala,Guadiana, Los Muñequitos de Matanza, Yoruba Andabo, Afrocuba de Matanza, Clave y Guaguancó, Carlos Embale, Tata Guines, Changuito, Giovanni Hidalgo, Jerry González , Chano Pozo,Israel López Cachao, Jaco Pastorius, Feliciano Arango,Carlos del Puerto, Tito Puente, Eddy Palmieri, Fania All Star, Rubén Blades, Juan Luis Guerra, Cheo Feliciano, Héctor Lavoe,Santos Colon, Chico O’farrill,Antonio Carlos Jobim,Ivan Lins,Gal Costa, Elis Regina,Rosa Passos,Caetano Veloso,Ana Belen,Joan Manuel Serrat,Victor Manuel,Fito Páez, Ignacio Cervantes, Ernesto Lecuona, Leo Brouwer, Carlos Fariñas, Joaquín Rodrigo,Paco de Lucia, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Astor Piazzola, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Chopin, Joseph Haydn, Isaac Albéniz, Manuel de Falla,.Granados, Bola de Nieve, Gonzalo Rubalca, Peruchin Pedro Justiz, Frank Emilio,Bebo Valdez,Oscar Peterson,Art Tatum,Glenn Miller, Thelonious Monk,Duke Ellington,George Gershwin,Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis,Jhon Coltrane,Clifford Brown,Freddie Hubbard, Joe Pass,Pat Mehteny, Jimmi Hendrix, BB King, Jhon Scofield,Herbie Hancock,Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea,Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong,Frank Sinatra,Los Beatles Steve Wonder, Ray Charles,Herat Wind & Fire,Kool & The Gang, Sting, Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Queen,Metallica,Phil Collins, En fín, música Oriental, Asiática y Africana, la naturaleza el mundo!
Clips (more may be added)
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ADN - Video Oficial - Alain Pérez
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Shorcito - Video Oficial - Alain Pérez
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Alain Pérez- Pa' eso estamos (Video Oficial)
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Rumbatimba with Alain Pérez - Palo Quimbombó
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THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone... The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum...it sings!
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.
MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):
