CURATION
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from this page:
by Augmented Matrix
Network Node
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Name:
Béco Dranoff
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City/Place:
New York City
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Country:
United States
Life & Work
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Bio:
Music and Cultural Producer & International Creative Consultant
Based in New York since 1988, São Paulo born Roberto ‘Béco’ Dranoff has been active in the international creation, production and promotion of music, cultural and entertainment projects for over 30 years. Dranoff’s Brazilian, European and American backgrounds position him as a relevant cultural bridge for international creative entertainment projects and brands. His multi-faceted career includes credits in Grammy™ and Oscar™ nominated projects, label Founder and Artistic Director, record producer and compiler, music supervisor, documentary and TV series producer, festival curator, radio host and DJ.
Having entered the industry in 1984 as Music Programmer at São Paulo's Top 40 radio station Jovem Pan 2 FM, Dranoff obtained his Bachelors degree in 1988 in Media & Mass Communications with a focus on Radio & TV from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado / FAAP University. Upon graduating, Dranoff relocated to New York and founded Artmosphere, Inc. an agency to represent and tour manage international Brazilian stars Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Margareth Menezes. Throughout the 1990’s, Dranoff co-produced and A&R’d the acclaimed HIV/AIDS awareness compilations Red Hot + Rio (Verve Records, 1996), Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon (Movieplay, 1998) and Red Hot + Rio 2 (E1, 2011). In 1999, he co-founded the Ziriguiboom Discos in association with Belgium’s Crammed Discs, signing and launching the international careers of acclaimed Brazilian artists Bebel Gilberto, Suba, Celso Fonseca, Zuco 103, Bossacucanova, DJ Dolores, Trio Mocotó, Apollo Nove and Cibelle. Dranoff was the A&R and co-producer of Gilberto’s three initial Grammy™ nominated albums: Tanto Tempo (Ziriguiboom, 2000), Bebel Gilberto (Ziriguiboom, 2004) and Momento (Ziriguiboom, 2007). The innovative Ziriguiboom label became synonymous with the modern sound of Brazil of the 2000’s.
Notable music supervision and compilation projects include Oscar™ nominated documentary How To Survive a Plague (dir. David France, Sundance Selects, 2012), Next Stop Wonderland (dir. Brad Anderson, Miramax, 1998), Novabossa (Verve Records), Capiríssima: Batucada Eletrônica (Caipirinha), The Best Of Os Mutantes: Everything is Possible with David Byrne (Luaka Bop), Chico Science & Nação Zumbí CSNZ Remixes (Sony Music Brasil), The Now Sound Of Brazil, SambaSoul 70, Brasil2Mil: The Soul Of Bass-O-Nova (Ziriguiboom) and more. Branded curatorial music projects and compilations include clients: Clinton Foundation, Brazil Foundation, Sagatiba, Sambazon, Leblon, Smoking, Natura, Espasso, UMA, Max Mara, Swarovski, Estar and Arezzo.
In 2009 Dranoff and director Guto Barra launched the award-winning independent feature documentary Beyond Ipanema: Brazilian Waves in Global Music focused on the international influence of Brazilian music from Carmen Miranda to today. Beyond Ipanema premiered at MoMA’s Premiere Brazil Film Festival, being screened in over 50 international festivals including SXSW, HotDocs, Chicago Film Festival and Rio Film Festival, receiving critical praise. In 2012, Dranoff and Barra partnered with Brazilian arts cable TV channel Canal Brasil (GloboSat) to produce a two seasons or programs based on the concept.
From 2010 through 2016, Dranoff produces and hosts 65 episodes of Sonoridade, a monthly online music program streamed on Clocktower Radio. In 2011, Dranoff joined the curatorial team of New York’s Brasil Summerfest, transforming the festival into Brazil’s most important music series internationally. Live event curatorial work includes: Lisbon’s Expo ’98 Red Hot + Lisbon Live, Red Hot + Rio Live at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2008) and MoMA’s Sculpture Garden Brazilian Summer (2010, 2011). From 2012 to 2016 Dranoff joins Empire Entertainment, the premier corporate event production company as director for Brazil & Region. With Empire Dranoff works in the production in major projects during Rio’s 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games for brands such as Coca-Cola, Sony, Panasonic and Bridgestone, as well as the Be Brasil event in NY for Brazilian export office APEX.
As a DJ and Music Selector, Dranoff has performed in prestigious festivals and events such as NY Fashion Week, Central Park Summerstage, Lincoln Center’s Out-Of-Doors, Sydney Festival, Austin’s SXSW, Rio’s Jazz & Bossa Festival as well as clubs in New York, São Paulo, Beijing, Tokyo, Wellington and more. In 2017 he was invited to start a monthly online radio program for Spain’s influential Radio Gladys Palmera called Brazilab focused on the modern sounds of Brazil. He is also part of music production team Sambismo with award winning composer and producer Zé Luis Oliveira.
In 2017 and 2018 Dranoff was invited to be part of the prestigious Abu Dhabi Culture Summit event attended by 400 international thought leaders and cultural producers. He currently continues to consult for artists, brands and events, always aiming to create and produce music, cultural projects and properties with a broad global appeal.
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I created this matrix so the world could discover elemental cultural genius here in Bahia: João do Boi (rest in power), Roberto Mendes, Raymundo Sodré and magisterial others. To make these artists discoverable worldwide though, there's a catch: The matrix must encompass so far as possible ALL CREATORS EVERYWHERE.
The Integrated Global Creative Economy, uncoiling from this sprawling Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian cultural matrix.
The mathematics of the small world phenomenon transforming the creative universe into a creative village wherein all are connected by short pathways to all.
Tap the crosses on somebody's Matrix Page to recommend that person for that category.
(Crosses visible when you are logged in)
The crosses will turn green.
That person/category will appear in your My Curation & Recommendations.
You will appear in that person's Incoming Curation and Recommendations.
You and the person you are recommending will be pulled by mathematical gravity to within DISCOVERABLE distance of EVERYBODY ELSE INSIDE the Matrix.
In a small world great things are possible.
"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
Salvador is our base. If you plan to visit Bahia, there are some things you should probably know and you should first visit:
www.salvadorbahiabrazil.com
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 Sodré was silenced, threatened with death and forced into exile...
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 (seat of the Integrated Global Creative Economy* and 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.)
*Darius Mans holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, and lives between Washington D.C. and Salvador da Bahia.
Between 2000 and 2004 he served as the World Bank’s Country Director for Mozambique and Angola. In that capacity, Darius led a team which generated $150 million in annual lending to Mozambique, including support for public private partnerships in infrastructure which catalyzed over $1 billion in private investment.
Darius was an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he worked closely with the U.S. Treasury and the IMF to establish a framework to avoid debt repudiation and to restructure private commercial debt in Brazil and Chile.
He taught Economics at the University of Maryland and was a consultant to KPMG on infrastructure projects in Latin America.
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'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). 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.
This list is random, and incomplete. Reload the page for another list.
Pardal/Sparrow
Ex Terra Brasilis
Wolfram MathWorld
UNIVERSAL
Alicia Svigals
Susan Rogers
Julian Lloyd Webber
Clarice Assad
Luciano Calazans
Kamasi Washington
Randy Brecker
Gustavo Caribé
J Velloso
Lázaro Ramos
Fernando Guerreiro
Maria Marighella
Russell Okung
Bule Bule
Caetano Veloso
RÁDIO MATRIX