The Matrix & its Backstory in Bahia, Brazil

"If Myspace Music had been set up backwards per the Matrix — for recommending rather than "friends" — they'd be using it to hear Hermeto Pascoal in Andromeda by now!" Sparrow Roberts, founder, The Matrix

"Wow! Very impressive! ... I love what you've built here..." Derek Sivers, founder, CD Baby

"I'm truly thankful! ... Sohlangana ngokuzayo!" Nduduzo Makhathini, Blue Note Recording Artist

THIS IS THE WORLD'S FIRST EVER SMALL WORLD CURATION NETWORK...

Meaning that ANY ARTIST (in ANY FIELD) in ANY PLACE in the world can be potentially reached by ANYBODY from ANYWHERE.

BY WHAT WIZARDRY?

We've all heard of six degrees of separation, more properly called a small world network. Within six or so steps we can move through a chain of people knowing other people to just about anybody on the planet.

SIMPLY CHANGE "KNOW" TO "RECOMMEND"

In exactly the same way, step by step we can move through chains of ARTISTS CURATING ARTISTS to to just about any artist on the planet (anybody is welcome to begin curation-chains by recommending somebody).

LIKE THIS...

From the Quincy Jones page we access one of his protégés, stellar young Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez. From the Alfredo Rodriguez page we access a fabulous multinstrumentalist Alfredo plays with, Munir Hossn. Two more steps and we've reached Raimundo Sodré, formerly virtually unreachable in Bahia:

DICTATED SILENCE

Sodré's meteoric major-label career was crushed and he was threatened with death by the Brazilian dictatorship years ago, sending him into a 19 year exile. He became almost impossible to find and hear.

MUSIC FALLS LIKE RAIN

But now lines of everbranching interlinked recommendations rise from Bahia to form a (small world) network rounding the planet like the arboreal canopy of a vast Amazonian rainforest. When the dictatorship ground Sodré into the dust, they unwittingly planted a seed.

IS THE MATRIX AN ALTERNATE REALITY?

The original meaning of "matrix" is "source", from "mater", Latin for "mother". We're real mothers for ya!

DOES THE MATRIX WATCH YOU?

Zero surreptitious tracking, data mining and data brokerage per Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, et al.