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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.

 

  • Arifan Junior
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Criador acima/Creator above

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Arifan Junior
  • City/Place: Rio de Janeiro
  • Country: Brazil

Life & Work

  • Bio: Arifan Junior is a singer/songwriter+ in Rio de Janeiro. He is a member of the Portela samba school in the neighborhood of Madureira, and one of the creators of group Awurê, dedicated to the reafricanization of samba and incorporating jongo, ijexá, coco, maracatu and the rhythms of candomblé, as well as genres from neighboring countries, like candombe and salsa.

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Instagram: arifan_jr
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgzpqTHhgxA_WUijtcXpx8A

Clips (more may be added)

  • 2:18:09
    Awurê na Bahia - A Rota do Samba de Roda
    By Arifan Junior
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  • 0:21:59
    Arifan Jr. Ao Vivo no Projeto Criolice
    By Arifan Junior
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YOU RECOMMEND

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 Arifan Junior:

  • 2 Brasil, Brazil
  • 2 Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • 2 Cavaquinho
  • 2 Diretor Musical, Music Director
  • 2 Percussão, Percussion
  • 2 Portela
  • 2 Produtor Cultural, Cultural Producer
  • 2 Rio de Janeiro
  • 2 Samba
  • César Camargo Mariano Brazilian Jazz
  • Ron Blake Composer
  • Varijashree Venugopal Jazz
  • Brian Stoltz Guitar
  • Avner Dorman Conductor
  • Vadinho França Salvador
  • Jeff Preiss Director
  • Cory Henry Singer-Songwriter
  • Joshua Abrams Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Kiko Horta Forró
  • Jack Talty Raelach Records
  • Barbara Paris Austin, Texas
  • Los Muñequitos de Matanzas Matanzas
  • Eduardo Kobra Muralista, Muralist
  • Aurino de Jesus Viola Machete
  • Edu Lobo Rio de Janeiro
  • Andrew Dickson Essayist
  • Nicholas Barber London
  • Papa Mali Louisiana
  • Marcelo Caldi Choro
  • Andy Romanoff Writer
  • Frank Olinsky Illustrator
  • Gretchen Parlato MPB
  • Ben Okri Novelist
  • Marcelinho Oliveira Keyboards
  • Michael Olatuja Composer
  • Julien Libeer Brussels
  • Hugo Rivas Guitar
  • Jeff Ballard Jazz
  • Taylor Eigsti Composer
  • Carlos Henriquez Bass
  • Papa Mali New Orleans
  • Stacy Dillard Jazz
  • Daniil Trifonov New York City
  • Scotty Barnhart Composer
  • Celso de Almeida São Paulo
  • Adriano Giffoni Rio de Janeiro
  • Walter Smith III Jazz
  • Hisham Mayet DJ
  • Danilo Caymmi MPB
  • Toninho Horta Singer
  • Christian Sands Jazz
  • The Weeknd Record Producer
  • Olivia Trummer Composer
  • Case Watkins Writer
  • Antônio Pereira Singer-Songwriter
  • Ayrson Heráclito Set Designer
  • Adriano Giffoni Composer
  • Jan Ramsey Zydeco
  • James Poyser Record Producer
  • Omer Avital Oud
  • Kalani Pe'a Singer-Songwriter
  • Musa Okwonga Rapper
  • Mark Stryker Detroit
  • Nelson Cerqueira Poeta, Poet
  • Cale Glendening Cinematographer
  • Vincent Valdez Printmaker
  • Trombone Shorty Jazz
  • Gord Sheard MPB
  • James Sullivan Journalist
  • Etan Thomas Poet
  • Trilok Gurtu Multi-Cultural
  • Mário Santana São Braz
  • Juçara Marçal Singer-Songwriter
  • Christopher Wilkinson Guitar
  • Molly Tuttle Americana
  • Dwandalyn Reece Singer
  • Taylor Eigsti Composer
  • Carlos Blanco Salvador
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Music Venue
  • Leo Nocentelli Funk
  • Terence Blanchard Educator
  • Ricardo Herz Rabeca
  • Stomu Takeishi New York City
  • Orlando Costa Salvador
  • Kronos Quartet String Quartet
  • Darren Barrett Flugelhorn
  • Duncan Chisholm Composer
  • Tutwiler Quilters Quilts
  • Brian Blade Louisiana
  • James Carter New York City
  • Arturo O'Farrill Latin Jazz
  • Chris McQueen App Developer
  • King Britt Computer Music
  • Alicia Svigals Violin
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Brazil
  • Marc Cary Piano
  • Carla Visi Singer
  • Nei Lopes Brazil
  • Gustavo Caribé Santo Amaro
  • Nelson Latif Choro
  • Hilton Schilder Cape Town
  • Munir Hossn Brazil
  • Chelsea Kwakye Writer
  • Nelson Ayres Music Producer
  • Ofer Mizrahi Israel
  • Mark Lettieri Composer
  • Carla Visi Bahia
  • Marcel Camargo Brazil
  • Stan Douglas Installation Artist
  • Di Freitas Violin
  • Patty Kiss Bahia
  • André Becker Música Clássica, Classical Music
  • Nilze Carvalho Mandolin
  • Oscar Bolão MPB
  • Nêgah Santos Pandeiro
  • Jean Rondeau Paris
  • Corey Henry Trombone
  • Mestre Barachinha Pernambuco
  • Horácio Reis Salvador
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Actor
  • Tatiana Campêlo Salvador
  • Otto Brazil
  • Dudu Reis Samba
  • David Bragger Mandolin Instruction
  • Ajeum da Diáspora Restaurant
  • Casa Preta Salvador
  • Hendrik Meurkens Samba
  • Willy Schwarz Singer
  • Phakama Mbonambi South Africa
  • Colm Tóibín Novelist
  • Courtney Pine Flute
  • John Donohue Writer
  • Evgeny Kissin Classical Music
  • Mário Santana Percussion
  • Rolando Herts Delta Blues
  • Carwyn Ellis Brazil
  • Ballaké Sissoko Bamako
  • Steve Bailey Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Lazzo Matumbi Samba
  • Geovanna Costa Violão, Guitar
  • Caroline Shaw Singer
  • Ben Hazleton Indian Classical Music
  • Alê Siqueira Bahia
  • Frank Olinsky Artist
  • Tobias Meinhart Jazz
  • Gustavo Di Dalva New York City
  • Yamandu Costa Choro
  • Chucho Valdés Havana
  • Jonathan Scales Multi-Cultural
  • 小野リサ Lisa Ono Brazil
  • Dan Trueman Software Designer
  • Rob Garland Jazz, Funk
  • Luíz Paixão Côco
  • Demond Melancon Young Seminole Hunters
  • João Bosco Brazil
  • Brian Q. Torff Writer
  • Yasushi Nakamura Tokyo
  • Jon Batiste New Orleans
  • Jon Batiste Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Endea Owens Double Bass
  • Marcus J. Moore Editor
  • Benny Benack III Singer-Songwriter
  • Paulão 7 Cordas Brazil
  • Logan Richardson Classical Music
  • Darol Anger Folk & Traditional
  • Ben Williams Jazz
  • Paul Mahern Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Faculty
  • André Becker Flauta, Flute
  • Hendrik Meurkens Jazz
  • Hugues Mbenda Congo
  • Olga Mieleszczuk Warsaw
  • Amaro Freitas Pernambuco
  • William Skeen USC Thornton School of Music Faculty
  • Demond Melancon Mardi Gras Indian
  • Pierre Onassis Salvador
  • Andrés Prado Jazz
  • Catherine Bent Cello
  • Ayrson Heráclito Bahia
  • Alegre Corrêa Brazilian Jazz
  • Jimmy Cliff Rocksteady
  • Nubya Garcia Flute
  • Duane Benjamin Arranger
  • Flying Lotus Rapper
  • Célestin Monga Harvard University Faculty
  • Béla Fleck Banjo
  • Joe Lovano Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Mahsa Vahdat Iran
  • Danilo Pérez Boston
  • Soweto Kinch Composer
  • Ronald Bruner Jr. Record Producer
  • Mart'nália Singer-Songwriter
  • Brian Lynch University of Miami Frost School of Music Faculty
  • Jeffrey Boakye England
  • Darren Barrett Composer
  • Nettrice R. Gaskins STEAM Advocate
  • Jovino Santos Neto Brazilian Jazz
  • Sharay Reed Chicago
  • Obed Calvaire New York City
  • Bill Frisell Brooklyn, NY
  • Riley Baugus North Carolina
  • Barney McAll Australia
  • Carlos Malta Rio de Janeiro
  • Mark Lettieri Record Producer
  • Paulo Martelli Brazilian Classical Guitar
  • Art Rosenbaum Banjo
  • Jamie Dupuis Harp Guitar
  • Mulatu Astatke Percussion
  • Philip Sherburne Music & Culture Writer
  • Gel Barbosa Luthier
  • Etan Thomas Writer
  • André Becker Saxophone
  • Yunior Terry Havana
  • Philip Sherburne Menorca
  • Anissa Senoussi VFX Artist
  • Orquestra Afrosinfônica Brasil, Brazil
  • Jimmy Dludlu Guitar
  • Robertinho Silva Brazil
  • Negrizu Brasil, Brazil
  • Steve Cropper Guitar
  • Echezonachukwu Nduka Musicologist
  • Joe Chambers Drums
  • Warren Wolf Percussion
  • Luis Paez-Pumar New York City
  • Abel Selaocoe Composer
  • Kiko Loureiro Guitar Instruction
  • Marisa Monte Singer-Songwriter
  • Ivan Sacerdote Brazilian Jazz
  • Arifan Junior Produtor Cultural, Cultural Producer
  • Banning Eyre Guitar
  • Rodrigo Amarante Singer-Songwriter
  • Keita Ogawa Percussion Samples
  • John Patrick Murphy Forró
  • Orlando Costa Percussion
  • Jim Lauderdale Nashville, Tennessee
  • Asali Solomon Writer
  • Ron McCurdy Composer
  • Julie Fowlis Singer
  • Anna Webber Composer
  • Donny McCaslin Saxophone
  • Helen Shaw Writer
  • Luques Curtis Bass
  • Emmet Cohen New York City
  • John Edward Hasse Piano
  • Rissi Palmer Americana
  • Omari Jazz Electronic Futurism
  • Snigdha Poonam Journalist
  • Omar Sosa Multi-Cultural
  • Sam Dagher The Middle East
  • Makaya McCraven Record Producer
  • Sarah Jarosz Texas
  • Yoron Israel Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Leo Nocentelli Songwriter
  • Jon Faddis Trumpet
  • Gabrielzinho do Irajá Versador
  • Swami Jr. Choro
  • Ronell Johnson Singer
  • Di Freitas Cello
  • Siba Veloso Brazil
  • Ben Wendel Brooklyn, NY
  • Mahsa Vahdat Composer
  • Stephanie Foden Montreal
  • Justin Brown Jazz
  • Matt Garrison Jazz
  • Tambay Obenson Writer
  • Samuel Organ Composer
  • Kiya Tabassian كيا طبسيان Film Scores
  • Jonathon Grasse Writer
  • Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah Jazz
  • Daniil Trifonov Classical Music
  • Kiko Souza MPB
  • Alain Pérez Cuba
  • Chano Domínguez Flamenco
  • Kurt Andersen Essayist
  • Cristovão Bastos Piano
  • Terrace Martin Ropeadope
  • David Bragger Guitar
  • Bodek Janke Contemporary Classical Music
  • Igor Osypov Guitar
  • Arto Lindsay New York City
  • Guga Stroeter Brazil
  • André Vasconcellos Baixo, Bass
  • Ann Hallenberg Opera Singer
  • Igor Levit Berlin
  • Menelaw Sete Salvador
  • James Grime YouTuber
  • Sérgio Pererê Percussion
  • Ana Moura Portugal
  • Gabriel Policarpo Rio de Janeiro
  • Adam Neely Bass
  • Aubrey Johnson Brazilian Music
  • Susana Baca Afro-Peruvian Music
  • Awadagin Pratt Classical Music
  • Lenine Pernambuco
  • Jonga Cunha Record Producer
  • Cláudio Jorge Samba
  • Jennifer Koh Violin
  • Elizabeth LaPrelle Folk & Traditional
  • Arthur Verocai Arranger
  • Steve McKeever Entertainment Lawyer
  • Conrad Herwig Rutgers University Faculty
  • Emicida Singer-Songwriter
  • Adonis Rose New Orleans
  • Juliana Ribeiro Musicologist
  • Robb Royer R&B
  • Osvaldo Golijov College of the Holy Cross Faculty
  • Joatan Nascimento Brazil
  • MonoNeon Bass
  • Alex Cuadros Author
  • Keith Jarrett Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Atlantic Brass Quintet Brass Ensemble
  • Hercules Gomes Samba
  • Bebê Kramer Choro
  • Luques Curtis Jazz
  • Ceumar Coelho Singer-Songwriter
  • Nublu Istanbul
  • Michael Olatuja Bass
  • Frank Negrão Jazz
  • Riley Baugus Fiddle
  • Joe Chambers Composer
  • Ari Rosenschein Indie Pop
  • Lívia Mattos Accordion
  • Riley Baugus Old-Time Music
  • Nahre Sol Classical Music
  • Wouter Kellerman Alto Flute
  • Alex Conde Jazz
  • Hugues Mbenda Congolese Cuisine
  • Jerry Douglas Americana
  • Darryl Hall Composer
  • Tito Jackson Pop
  • Kurt Andersen New York City
  • Menelaw Sete Cubismo Afro-Brasileiro, Afro-Brazilian Cubism
  • Avishai Cohen Composer
  • Albin Zak Author
  • Giveton Gelin New York City
  • Richie Barshay Afro-Latin Percussion
  • Brian Blade Composer
  • Chico Buarque Samba
  • Mingo Araújo Rio de Janeiro
  • Isaac Julien Installation Artist
  • Mou Brasil Bahia
  • Andrew Huang Guitar
  • Rema Namakula African Music
  • Giovanni Russonello Journalist
  • Missy Mazolli Classical Music
  • Arifan Junior Rio de Janeiro
  • Ravi Coltrane Record Producer
  • John Edward Hasse Music Historian
  • Muri Assunção Rio de Janeiro
  • Ricardo Herz Brazil
  • Gord Sheard Humber College Music Faculty
  • Mateus Aleluia Filho Trompete, Trumpet
  • Orquestra Afrosinfônica Música Afro-Brasileira, Afro-Brazilian Music
  • Ambrose Akinmusire New York City
  • Giba Gonçalves Brazil
  • Steve Earle Writer
  • Avishai Cohen אבישי כה Tel Aviv
  • Henrique Cazes Brazil
  • Nicolas Krassik Jazz
  • Paul Cebar Milwaukee

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

 

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