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From Brazil with love →

@ Ground Zero

 

Have you, dear friend, ever noticed how different places scattered across the face of the globe seem almost to exist in different universes? As if they were permeated throughout with something akin to 19th century luminiferous aether, unique, determined by that place's history? It's like a trick of the mind's light (I suppose), but standing on beach or escarpment in Salvador and looking out across the Baía de Todos os Santos to the great Recôncavo, and mindful of what happened there, one must be led to the inevitable conclusion that one is in a place unique to history, and to the present*.

 

 

"Chegou a hora dessa gente bronzeada mostrar seu valor / The time has come for these bronzed people to show their value..."Música: Assis Valente of Santo Amaro, Bahia. Vídeo: Betão Aguiar.

 

*More enslaved human beings entered the Bay of All Saints and the Recôncavo than any other final port-of-call throughout all of mankind's history.

 

These people and their descendants created some of the most uplifting music ever made, the foundation of Brazil's national art. We wanted their music to be accessible to the world (it's not even accessible here in Brazil) so we created a platform by which everybody's creativity is mutually accessible, including theirs.

 

El Aleph

 

The network was built in an obscure record shop (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar found it) in a shimmering Brazilian port city...

 

...inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' (short story) 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.

 

It "works" by virtue of the "small-world" phenomenon...the same responsible for the fact that most of us 7 billion or so beings are within 6 or fewer degrees of each other.

 

It was described (to some degree) and can be accessed via this article in British journal The Guardian (which named our radio of matrixed artists as one of ten best in the world):

 

www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/apr/17/10-best-music-radio-station-around-world

 

With David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio: www.npr.org/2013/07/16/202634814/roots-of-samba-exploring-historic-pelourinho-in-salvador-brazil

 

All is more connected than we know.

 

Per the "spirit" above, our logo is a cortador de cana, a 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 specialized in. The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum... it dances and sings.

 

If You Can't Stand the Heat

 

Image above is from the base of the cross in front of the church of São Francisco do Paraguaçu in the Bahian Recôncavo

 

Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes, stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word, limned in cadenced song, Brazil is a conundrum wrapped in a smile inside an irony...

 

This is not a European nation. It is not a North American nation. It is not an East Asian nation. It straddles — jungle and desert and dense urban centers — both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. Brazil absorbed over ten times the number of enslaved Africans taken to the United States of America, and is a repository of African deities (and their music) now largely forgotten in their lands of origin. It was a refuge (of sorts) for Sephardim fleeing an Inquisition which followed them across the Atlantic (that unofficial symbol of Brazil's national music — the pandeiro — was almost certainly brought to Brazil by these people). Across the parched savannas of the interior of Brazil's culturally fecund nordeste/northeast, where wizard Hermeto Pascoal was born in Lagoa da Canoa (Lagoon of the Canoe) and raised in Olho d'Águia (Eye of the Eagle), much of Brazil's aboriginal population was absorbed into a caboclo/quilombola culture punctuated by the Star of David. Three cultures — from three continents — running for their lives, their confluence forming an unprecedented fourth. Pandeirista on the roof. Nowhere else but here.

 

Oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption — elements of these are still strongly entrenched — have defined, delineated, and limited Brazil.

 

But strictured & bound as it has been and is, Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of — or perhaps because of — the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.

 

For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...

 

Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.

 

"Onde tem miséria, tem música!"* - Raymundo Sodré

 

And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.

 

Welcome to the kitchen!

 

* "Where there is misery, there is music!" Remarked during a conversation arcing from Bahia to Haiti and Cuba to New Orleans and the south side of Chicago and Harlem to the villages of Ireland and the gypsy camps and shtetls of Eastern Europe...

 

Harlem to Bahia to the Planet



Why a "Matrix"?

 

I was explaining the ideas behind this nascent network to (João) Teoria (trumpet player above) over cervejas at Xique Xique (a bar named for a town in Bahia) in the Salvador neighborhood of Barris...

 

Like this (but in Portuguese): "It's kind of like Facebook if it didn't spy on you, but reversed... more about who you don't know than who you do know. And who doesn't know you but would be glad if they did. It's kind of like old Myspace Music but instead of having "friends" it has a list on your page of people you recommend. Not just musicians but writers, painters, filmmakers, dancers, chefs... anybody in the creative economy. It has a list of people who recommend you, or through whom you are recommended. It deals with arts which aren't recommendable by algorithm but need human intelligence behind recommendations. And the people who are recommended can recommend, creating a network of recommendations wherein by the small world phenomenon most people in the creative economy are within several steps of everybody else in the creative economy, no matter where they are in the world. Like a chessboard which could have millions of squares, but you can get from any given square to any other in no more than six steps..."

 

And João said (in Portuguese): "A matrix where you can move from one artist to another..."

 

A matrix! That was it! The ORIGINAL meaning of matrix is "source", from "mater", Latin for "mother". So the term would help congeal the concept in the minds of people the network was being introduced to, while giving us a motto: "We're a real mother for ya!" (you know, Johnny "Guitar" Watson?)

 

The original idea was that musicians would recommend musicians, the network thus formed being "small world" (commonly called "six degrees of separation"). In the real world, the number of degrees of separation in such a network can vary, but while a given network might have billions of nodes (people, for example), the average number of steps between any two nodes will usually be minuscule.

 

Thus somebody unaware of the magnificent music of Bahia, Brazil will be able to conceivably move from almost any musician in this matrix to Bahia in just a few steps...

 

By the same logic that might move one from Bahia or anywhere else to any musician anywhere.

 

And there's no reason to limit this system to musicians. To the contrary, while there are algorithms written to recommend music (which, although they are limited, can be useful), there are no algorithms capable of recommending journalism, novels & short stories, painting, dance, film, chefery...

 

...a vast chasm that this network — or as Teoria put it, "matrix" — is capable of filling.

 

  • Ariel Reich
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Criador acima/Creator above

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Ariel Reich
  • City/Place: New York City
  • Country: United States

Life & Work

  • Bio: Anna in 10 Tony-winning The Band's Visit

    NYC: The American Theatre Wing Centennial Gala Concert (Broadway HD), Best Friends (Lincoln Center Rose Theatre), Bread and Roses (ART NY).

    Regional: The Wolves, Hand to God, Marie Antoinette, All Girl Frankenstein, Peter and the Starcatcher, Sweeney Todd, Spring Awakening, King Lear, The House of Atreus, The Comedy of Errors, Hobson’s Choice.

    TV: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Deuce, Younger. Film: The Reunion, Love Online.

    In addition to her acting and directing work, Ariel is an Arts in Medicine researcher and practitioner. She currently serves on the Teaching Artist Faculty at the Mark Morris Dance Group with the Dance for PD® (Parkinson’s Disease) program.

Contact Information

  • Email: [email protected]

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Instagram: ariel_reich
  • ▶ Website: http://thebandsvisitmusical.com/company/
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9iAw0E_Ej8Zhhxjo7dKYIA

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Imagine the world's creative economy at your fingertips. Imagine 10 doors side-by-side. Beyond each, 10 more, each opening to a "creative" somewhere around the planet. After passing through 8 such doorways you will have followed 1 pathway out of 100 million possible (2 sets of doorways yield 10 x 10 = 100 pathways). This is a simplified version of the metamathematics that makes it possible to reach everybody in the global creative economy in just a few steps It doesn't mean that everybody will be reached by everybody. It does mean that everybody can  be reached by everybody.


Appear below by recommending Ariel Reich:

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  • David Chesky New York City
  • Ryan Keberle Piano
  • Terell Stafford Temple University Boyer College of Music & Dance Faculty
  • Guinha Ramires Brazil
  • Maia Sharp Americana
  • Oscar Bolão Choro
  • Cláudio Badega Percussão, Percussion
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  • Mahsa Vahdat Tehran
  • Roy Ayers Composer
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  • Tiganá Santana Poeta, Poet
  • Tim Hittle Animator
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  • Paulo Paulelli Brazil
  • Wayne Escoffery New York City
  • Carwyn Ellis Wales
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  • Quincy Jones Record Producer
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  • João Teoria Brasil, Brazil
  • Nora Fischer Singer
  • Neymar Dias São Paulo
  • Willie Jones III Drumming Instruction
  • André Becker Jazz
  • Nahre Sol YouTuber
  • Thomas Àdes Opera
  • Camille Thurman New York City
  • Brandee Younger Composer
  • Loli Molina Singer-Songwriter
  • Chris Thile Jazz
  • Lucinda Williams Country
  • João Rabello Guitar
  • Philip Watson Writer
  • Katuka Africanidades Livraria, Bookshop
  • Rogê Brazil
  • Astrig Akseralian Cambridge, England
  • Paulo Paulelli Bass
  • Ron Carter Composer
  • Dave Eggers Publisher
  • Tiganá Santana Bahia
  • Nabihah Iqbal London
  • Paulo Costa Lima Salvador
  • Sarah Jarosz New York City
  • Arismar do Espírito Santo São Paulo
  • Caterina Lichtenberg Soprano Lute
  • Vadinho França Samba
  • Nelson Latif Viola Caipira
  • Christian McBride Bass
  • Aubrey Johnson Singer
  • Atlantic Brass Quintet Baroque
  • Luizinho Assis Produtor Musical, Music Producer
  • Nubya Garcia Saxophone
  • João Callado Music Producer
  • Mariana Zwarg Rio de Janeiro
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Cocktail Bar
  • Nilze Carvalho Cavaquinho
  • Sam Wasson Cultural Historian
  • Dezron Douglas Record Producer
  • Dwandalyn Reece Ethnomusicologist
  • Sérgio Mendes MPB
  • Gilberto Gil Salvador
  • Scott Yanow Writer
  • MonoNeon Microtonal
  • Walter Pinheiro Choro
  • Del McCoury Country
  • Fred Hersch Composer
  • Linda May Han Oh Composer
  • Donny McCaslin Brooklyn, NY
  • Nelson Cerqueira Bahia
  • Reggie Ugwu Writer
  • Laura Marling London
  • Bebê Kramer Choro
  • Alexandre Vieira Salvador
  • María Grand R&B
  • Gerson Silva Guitar
  • Maia Sharp Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Vijay Gupta Social Justice Advocate
  • Marcus Printup Arranger
  • Nate Smith Television Scores
  • Nubya Garcia Flute
  • Jamael Dean Composer
  • Lilli Lewis New Orleans
  • Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh Violin
  • Linda May Han Oh Jazz
  • Samuca do Acordeon Samba
  • Joan Chamorro Spain
  • Kathy Chiavola Country
  • Marcus J. Moore Brooklyn, NY
  • Mulatu Astatke Addis Ababa
  • Arismar do Espírito Santo Samba
  • Lazzo Matumbi Singer-Songwriter
  • Burhan Öçal Tanbur
  • Ayrson Heráclito Cachoeira
  • Luis Paez-Pumar Editor
  • Felipe Guedes Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Patricia Janečková Soprano
  • Siobhán Peoples Fiddle
  • Zigaboo Modeliste New Orleans
  • Yuja Wang Piano
  • Michael League Bass
  • Andrew Finn Magill Jazz
  • Cristovão Bastos Samba
  • Bongo Joe Records Record Shop
  • Parker Ighile Singer-Songwriter
  • Marília Sodré MPB
  • Moreno Veloso MPB
  • Toumani Diabaté Multi-Cultural
  • Pretinho da Serrinha Rio de Janeiro
  • Vincent Valdez Printmaker
  • Terence Blanchard Educator
  • Atlantic Brass Quintet Balkan Music
  • Mauro Refosco Brasil, Brazil
  • Tom Moon MPB
  • Liron Meyuhas Percussion
  • Capitão Corisco Flute
  • Burkard Polster Mathematics
  • Dwandalyn Reece Washington, D.C.
  • Philip Sherburne Menorca
  • Gabriel Policarpo Rio de Janeiro
  • Custódio Castelo Portugal
  • The Assad Brothers San Francisco
  • Munyungo Jackson Percussion
  • Turíbio Santos Rio de Janeiro
  • Joel Best 3D Artist
  • Susheela Raman Indian Classical Music
  • Mokhtar Samba Percussion
  • Jack Talty Record Producer
  • Samuca do Acordeon Choro
  • Etienne Charles Michigan State University Faculty
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto Japan
  • Shankar Mahadevan Mumbai
  • Sarah Jarosz Mandolin
  • Leandro Afonso Brazil
  • Taylor Eigsti Composer
  • Raymundo Sodré Samba de Roda
  • Terence Blanchard Trumpet
  • Alex de Mora Documentary Filmmaker
  • Swami Jr. Choro
  • Alexa Tarantino Woodwinds
  • Sierra Hull Singer-Songwriter
  • Eddie Palmieri Latin Jazz
  • Pedro Abib Bahia
  • Deesha Philyaw Short Stories
  • Beeple Concert Visuals
  • Richard Bona Africa
  • Natan Drubi Samba
  • Jeff Preiss Director
  • Sunna Gunnlaugs Piano
  • Liberty Ellman Composer
  • Duane Benjamin Bass
  • Avner Dorman Composer
  • Flor Jorge Rio de Janeiro
  • Tony Trischka Country
  • Yelaine Rodriguez Fashion Design
  • Luiz Santos Drums
  • Samba de Lata Samba de Roda
  • Betão Aguiar Brazil
  • Jon Batiste Bandleader
  • Ofer Mizrahi Tel Aviv
  • Casa Preta Local de Música ao Vivo, Live Music Venue
  • MonoNeon Bass
  • Orlando Costa Brazil
  • G. Thomas Allen Countertenor
  • Thundercat Singer
  • Jeremy Pelt Jazz
  • Alexa Tarantino New York City
  • Stephan Crump Jazz
  • Arturo Sandoval Film Scores
  • Júlio Caldas Brasil, Brazil
  • Flying Lotus Electronic Music
  • Derek Sivers Writer
  • Leigh Alexander Writer
  • James Carter Contemporary Classical Music
  • Zé Luíz Nascimento Salvador
  • Amit Chatterjee Guitar
  • Christian McBride Composer
  • Lavinia Meijer Harp
  • Gord Sheard Jazz
  • Olivia Trummer Classical Guitar
  • Corey Harris Blues
  • Nettrice R. Gaskins Cultural Critic
  • Thomas Àdes Conductor
  • Chris Boardman Arranger
  • Cláudio Jorge Rio de Janeiro
  • Saileog Ní Cheannabháin Theater Composer
  • Dave Weckl Drums
  • Mike Compton Mandolin
  • Igor Osypov Germany
  • Miroslav Tadić Multi-Cultural
  • Imani Winds Chamber Music
  • Márcia Short Brazil
  • TaRon Lockett Drums
  • Robby Krieger Singer-Songwriter
  • Frank Olinsky Parson's School of Design Faculty
  • Ben Wolfe Jazz
  • Gabriel Policarpo Samba
  • Emicida Brazil
  • César Camargo Mariano MPB
  • Aneesa Strings Singer
  • Yunior Terry NYU Faculty
  • Brian Jackson Composer
  • Jason Moran New England Conservatory of Music Faculty
  • Jeremy Danneman Jazz
  • Dhafer Youssef ظافر يوسف Multi-Cultural
  • Nubya Garcia Composer
  • Marc Johnson Bossa Nova
  • Tom Green Contemporary Classical Music
  • Lô Borges Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Luciano Calazans Brazilian Jazz
  • Adanya Dunn Toronto
  • Lucinda Williams Country
  • Jeff Coffin Record Label Owner
  • Bob Bernotas Jazz
  • Stephen Kurczy Journalist
  • Aruán Ortiz New York City
  • Hugo Linns Recife
  • Marcelinho Oliveira Songwriter
  • Mariene de Castro Samba de Roda
  • Rodrigo Caçapa São Paulo
  • Lô Borges Guitarra, Violão, Guitar
  • Jason Moran Piano
  • Dan Weiss New York City
  • Mark Bingham Singer-Songwriter
  • Brentano String Quartet String Quartet
  • Esperanza Spalding Composer
  • Sombrinha Rio de Janeiro
  • Logan Richardson Jazz
  • Nilze Carvalho Bandolim
  • Dale Farmer Screenwriter
  • Safy-Hallan Farah Magazine Publisher
  • Henrique Araújo Escola de Choro de São Paulo Faculty
  • Jimmy Duck Holmes Blues
  • Anna Webber Flute
  • Horacio Hernández Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Mary Stallings San Francisco
  • Nick Douglas Journalist
  • Ricardo Herz Violin
  • Alex Clark Journalist
  • Jau Bahia
  • Juliana Ribeiro Samba
  • Roque Ferreira Author
  • Mahsa Vahdat Persian Classical Music
  • Ricky (Dirty Red) Gordon Washboard
  • Sergio Krakowski Jazz
  • Loli Molina Piano
  • Tank and the Bangas Funk
  • Aperio Houston
  • Gary Clark Jr. Blues
  • Azi Schwartz החזן עזי שוורץ Cantor
  • Carlos Blanco Bahia
  • Mike Moreno Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Casa PretaHub Cachoeira Estúdio de Fotografía, Photography Studio
  • Henry Cole Multi-Cultural
  • Wolfgang Muthspiel Guitar
  • Alicia Svigals New York City
  • Saileog Ní Cheannabháin Piano
  • Rayendra Sunito Record Producer
  • Siphiwe Mhlambi Photographer
  • Sameer Gupta Drums
  • Igor Levit Berlin
  • Roy Nathanson Film Scores
  • Áurea Martins MPB
  • King Britt Composer
  • Will Holshouser Folk & Traditional
  • Aloísio Menezes Salvador
  • Ricky (Dirty Red) Gordon Percussion
  • Scott Yanow Liner Notes
  • Warren Wolf Bass
  • John Morrison DJ
  • Ryan Keberle Piano
  • Manassés de Souza Brazil
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  • Tomo Fujita Guitar
  • Jim Farber Journalist
  • Ivan Lins Rio de Janeiro
  • Morten Lauridsen USC Thornton School of Music Faculty
  • Glória Bomfim Brazil
  • Pedro Aznar Argentina
  • Darol Anger Fiddle
  • Casa da Mãe Bahia
  • Alex Clark Columbia Journalism School Faculty
  • Wouter Kellerman World Music
  • Brandon Wilner DJ
  • Intisar Abioto Photographer
  • Avishai Cohen אבישי כה Jazz
  • Ricardo Herz MPB
  • Danilo Pérez Jazz
  • Chris Cheek Brooklyn, NY
  • Ned Sublette New Orleans
  • Arto Tunçboyacıyan Duduk
  • H.L. Thompson Festival Producer
  • Miles Mosley Los Angeles
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  • Ron Blake Flute
  • Herlin Riley Northwestern University Bienen School of Music Faculty
  • Andrés Prado Afro-Peruvian Music
  • Ronald Bruner Jr. Composer
  • Tshepiso Ledwaba University of South Africa Staff
  • Robertinho Silva Rio de Janeiro
  • Aaron Goldberg Jazz
  • Antonio García Film Scores
  • Ayrson Heráclito Set Designer
  • Aurino de Jesus Brazil
  • Stacy Dillard Saxophone
  • Nate Smith Drums
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  • Nilze Carvalho Rio de Janeiro
  • Luis Paez-Pumar Journalist
  • Steve Earle Americana
  • Anders Osborne Blues
  • Carlinhos Brown Percussion
  • Jeremy Pelt Trumpet
  • Welson Tremura Guitar
  • Antonio García Piano
  • Charles Munka Collage
  • Angel Deradoorian Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Horace Bray Singer-Songwriter
  • Joe Chambers Vibraphone
  • Dónal Lunny Irish Traditional Music
  • Jon Faddis Composer
  • Arturo O'Farrill Piano
  • Carla Visi Bahia
  • Caridad De La Luz Actor
  • Ênio Bernardes Pandeiro
  • J. Period Brooklyn, NY
  • Bob Reynolds Saxophone
  • Lilli Lewis Piano
  • Burhan Öçal Divan-Saz
  • Bai Kamara Jr. Brussels, Belgium
  • Robert Randolph Funk
  • Sam Wasson Los Angeles
  • Yotam Silberstein New York City
  • Billy Strings Songwriter
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto Record Producer
  • Itamar Vieira Júnior Short Stories
  • Negra Jhô AFROBIZ Salvador
  • Paulo Aragão Choro
  • Kenyon Dixon Soul
  • Stephen Kurczy Writer
  • Molly Tuttle Bluegrass

 'mātriks / "source" / from "mater", Latin for "mother"
We're a real mother for ya!

 

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