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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.

 

  • Bukassa Kabengele
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Matrix

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Bukassa Kabengele
  • City/Place: São Paulo
  • Country: Brazil

Life & Work

  • Bio: Bukassa "Booka" Kabengele is a Congolese/Brazilian singer/songwriter and actor.

    He is son of anthropologist Kabengele Munanga.

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Instagram: bukassakabengele
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/bukassa1

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 Bukassa Kabengele:

  • 4 Actor
  • 4 Brazil
  • 4 Congo
  • 4 Cultural Producer
  • 4 Guitar
  • 4 Singer-Songwriter
  • Jau Brazil
  • Benjamin Grosvenor Piano
  • Nora Fischer Amsterdam
  • Bebel Gilberto Brazil
  • Kiko Souza Ska
  • Shoshana Zuboff Author
  • Vanessa Moreno Guitar
  • Lizz Wright Jazz
  • Etienne Charles Composer
  • Forrest Hylton Salvador
  • Ed O'Brien Singer-Songwriter
  • Arifan Junior Percussão, Percussion
  • Monk Boudreaux Mardi Gras Indian
  • João Luiz MPB
  • Brett Kern West Virginia
  • Andrew Huang Guitar
  • Jan Ramsey Funk
  • Brandon Seabrook Avant-Garde Jazz
  • Horácio Reis Faculdade da Ucsal, Catholic University of Salvador Faculty
  • Bebê Kramer Tango
  • Justin Stanton Keyboards
  • Corey Harris Folk & Traditional
  • Jean Rondeau Composer
  • Jorge Glem New York City
  • Lula Moreira Composer
  • Eli Teplin Guitar
  • Rayendra Sunito Jazz
  • Gino Sorcinelli Educator
  • Carlos Blanco Brasil, Brazil
  • Joel Ross Brooklyn, NY
  • Nathan Amaral Violin
  • Guinga Composer
  • Maia Sharp Americana
  • Jim Lauderdale Americana
  • Di Freitas Rabeca
  • Linda May Han Oh New York City
  • Ayrson Heráclito Brazil
  • Itamar Vieira Júnior Bahia
  • Mike Moreno Jazz
  • Júlio Lemos Samba
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh Piano
  • Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah Multi-Cultural
  • Alain Mabanckou Congo-Brazzaville
  • Matt Ulery Contemporary Classical Music
  • Alegre Corrêa Brazil
  • Tom Bergeron Jazz
  • Gilsons Brazil
  • Terri Lyne Carrington Composer
  • Rumaan Alam Literary Critic
  • Robert Glasper Hip-Hop
  • Issa Malluf Doumbek
  • Avishai Cohen אבישי כה Record Label Owner
  • Carlos Aguirre Singer
  • Joel Guzmán Tex-Mex
  • George Garzone Jazz
  • Nels Cline New York City
  • David Bragger Record Label Owner
  • Anat Cohen Jazz
  • Rogê MPB
  • Mickalene Thomas Installation Artist
  • Sharita Towne Printmaker
  • Steve McKeever Record Label Owner
  • Derrick Hodge R&B
  • Meddy Gerville Maloya
  • Martin Fondse Film Scores
  • Conrad Herwig Afro-Caribbean Jazz
  • Sean Jones Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute Faculty
  • Maria Bethânia Brazil
  • Soweto Kinch Saxophone
  • Luis Paez-Pumar Journalist
  • Jau Brazil
  • Patty Kiss Guitarra Baiana
  • Alessandro Penezzi Guitar
  • Tam-Ky Supermarket
  • Brandon Seabrook New York City
  • Bebê Kramer Tango
  • Art Rosenbaum Folklorist
  • Angelique Kidjo Singer-Songwriter
  • Luciano Salvador Bahia Piano
  • Ed O'Brien Brazil
  • Yoruba Andabo Cuba
  • Julian Lage Guitar
  • Luis Delgado Qualtrough Photographer
  • Martín Sued Accordion
  • Ben Cox Filmmaker
  • Nêgah Santos Percussion
  • Kurt Andersen Essayist
  • Will Holshouser Accordion
  • Cleber Augusto Songwriter
  • Jess Gillam Saxophone
  • Bruce Molsky Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Composer
  • Ivo Perelman Brazilian Jazz
  • Tony Austin Composer
  • Ben Wendel Jazz
  • Leonardo Mendes Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Daniil Trifonov Composer
  • Maria Bethânia Bahia
  • Gabriel Grossi Brazil
  • John Edward Hasse Ragtime
  • Evgeny Kissin Contemporary Classical Music
  • Ibrahim Maalouf Paris, France
  • Sierra Hull Nashville, Tennessee
  • Craig Ross Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Corey Harris Singer-Songwriter
  • Samuca do Acordeon Bossa Nova
  • Rita Batista Apresentadora de Televisão, Television Presenter
  • Scotty Apex Rapper
  • Paulinho do Reco Candomblé
  • Bonerama Brass Band
  • Brian Jackson Jazz
  • Joel Guzmán Accordion
  • Frank London Multi-Cultural
  • Lolis Eric Elie Screenwriter
  • Ariane Astrid Atodji Filmmaker
  • Xenia França São Paulo
  • Ron Mader Communications Catalyst
  • John Zorn Film Scores
  • Guga Stroeter Brazil
  • Brian Jackson Keyboards
  • Joshue Ashby Panama
  • Patricia Janečková Czech Republic
  • Cláudio Badega Pandeiro
  • Arismar do Espírito Santo Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Gord Sheard MPB
  • Carlos Blanco Salvador
  • Maria Bethânia Salvador
  • Kronos Quartet San Francisco
  • Rodrigo Amarante Rio de Janeiro
  • James Carter Saxophone
  • Sophia Deboick Writer
  • Jacob Collier Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Tiganá Santana Brasil, Brazil
  • Rayendra Sunito Songwriter
  • Eddie Palmieri New York City
  • Edward P. Jones Short Stories
  • Gilberto Gil Brazil
  • Helado Negro Brooklyn, NY
  • Tshepiso Ledwaba Steinway Piano Technician
  • André Vasconcellos Jazz
  • Anne Gisleson Writer
  • Doug Adair Braver Angels
  • Carrtoons Record Producer
  • Gabriel Grossi Composer
  • Casey Benjamin Record Producer
  • Burkard Polster Mathematics
  • Gabriel Grossi Forró
  • Ellie Kurttz England
  • Issac Delgado Havana
  • Dani Deahl DJ
  • Raphael Saadiq Record Producer
  • Jason Treuting Percussion
  • Barbara Paris Painter
  • Carl Joe Williams New Orleans
  • Arifan Junior Rio de Janeiro
  • Ken Coleman Essayist
  • Ilê Aiyê Bahia
  • Joe Newberry Folk & Traditional
  • Richard Bona Jazz
  • Yotam Silberstein Composer
  • Peter Evans Trumpet
  • Gavin Marwick Multi-Cultural
  • Michael League Bandleader
  • Tony Kofi Jazz
  • Cory Wong Funk
  • Kiko Freitas Samba
  • Chris Thile Folk & Traditional
  • Orrin Evans Composer
  • Camille Thurman Saxophone
  • Moses Boyd Record Producer
  • Carlos Aguirre Piano
  • Béla Fleck Bluegrass
  • Geovanna Costa Brasil, Brazil
  • Asali Solomon Haverford College Faculty
  • William Skeen Viola da Gamba
  • Pallett Tehran
  • Magary Lord Brazil
  • Armen Donelian Composer
  • Paulo Paulelli Bass
  • Danilo Pérez Jazz
  • Cédric Villani Author
  • Flor Jorge Singer-Songwriter
  • Gabriel Grossi Samba
  • Ben Paris Salvador
  • Oscar Bolão Drums
  • Ronaldo Bastos Rio de Janeiro
  • Siphiwe Mhlambi Johannesburg
  • PATRICKTOR4 Tropical Hardcore
  • Jorge Glem New York City
  • Paulinho do Reco Bahia
  • Les Filles de Illighadad Tuareg Music
  • Michael Janisch Bass
  • Ry Cooder Americana
  • Phakama Mbonambi Publisher
  • Eric Bogle Australia
  • Nettrice R. Gaskins Lesley University Faculty
  • César Orozco Composer
  • Mino Cinélu Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Jon Faddis Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Serwah Attafuah NFTs
  • Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin Author
  • Rema Namakula Uganda
  • Ricky (Dirty Red) Gordon Louisiana
  • Steve Lehman Experimental Music
  • Adriana L. Dutra Documentary Filmmaker
  • Joshua Abrams Film Scores
  • David Byrne Film Scores
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Arranger
  • Stephanie Foden Brazil
  • Simon Brook Director
  • Hendrik Meurkens New York City
  • Marília Sodré Instrução de Violão, Guitar Instruction
  • Guillermo Klein Composer
  • Lizz Wright Singer
  • Kim Hill Singer
  • Omari Jazz Composer
  • Şener Özmen Kurdish Culture
  • Robert Randolph Soul
  • Pasquale Grasso Jazz
  • Gary Clark Jr. R&B
  • Banning Eyre Photographer
  • Beth Bahia Cohen Violin
  • Thiago Trad Berimbau
  • Gord Sheard Piano
  • Bobby Sanabria New York City
  • Júlio Lemos San Francisco
  • Rosa Cedrón Spain
  • Beth Bahia Cohen Middle Eastern Music
  • Mika Mutti DJ
  • Ethan Iverson Avant-Garde Jazz
  • Gabriel Grossi MPB
  • Welson Tremura Singer
  • Tam-Ky Marseille
  • Howard Levy Chicago
  • OVANA Africa
  • Hank Roberts Jazz
  • Chico César Poet
  • Missy Mazolli Piano
  • McCoy Mrubata Saxophone
  • Bob Lanzetti Record Producer
  • Horacio Hernández Cuba
  • Branford Marsalis Saxophone
  • Chico César Singer-Songwriter
  • Inaicyra Falcão Brasil, Brazil
  • Chris Acquavella Mandolin
  • Dale Farmer Appalachian Music
  • Merima Ključo Composer
  • James Martins Bahia
  • Raynald Colom Flamenco
  • Gustavo Caribé Brasil, Brazil
  • Tom Bergeron Niterói, Rio de Janeiro
  • Pasquale Grasso Guitar
  • Reggie Ugwu Pop Culture Reporter
  • Philip Cashian Composer
  • Plinio Oyò Samba de Roda
  • Daru Jones Jazz
  • Psoy Korolenko Псой Короленко Moscow
  • Paul McKenna Singer-Songwriter
  • Dudu Reis Choro
  • Cássio Nobre Bahia
  • Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin County Clare
  • Tigran Hamasyan Armenia
  • Johnny Lorenz Writer
  • Yuja Wang China
  • Jas Kayser London
  • Fred P Berlin
  • Şener Özmen Poet
  • Ayrson Heráclito Bahia
  • John McWhorter Author
  • Chano Domínguez Flamenco
  • Nubya Garcia England
  • Luizinho do Jêje Brazil
  • OVANA Angola
  • Beeple Graphic Designer
  • Robert Glasper R&B
  • Richie Pena Writer
  • Shalom Adonai Bahia
  • Stephen Kurczy Writer
  • Andy Romanoff Storyteller
  • Joel Ross Jazz
  • Gel Barbosa Paraiba
  • Johnny Lorenz Montclair State University Faculty
  • Johnny Vidacovich Jazz
  • John Medeski Experimental Music
  • Art Rosenbaum Muralist
  • Mark Bingham New Orleans
  • Hendrik Meurkens Brazilian Music
  • Yoron Israel R&B
  • Cassie Kinoshi Composer
  • Edil Pacheco Songwriter
  • Andrew Gilbert International Music
  • Pasquale Grasso New York City
  • Urânia Munzanzu Cineasta, Filmmaker
  • Celsinho Silva Choro
  • Greg Ruby Manouche
  • Stephan Crump Bass Instruction
  • Vânia Oliveira Brasil, Brazil
  • Ivan Sacerdote Clarinet
  • Bill Hinchberger Brazil Expert
  • Ivo Perelman Brooklyn, NY
  • Stanton Moore Funk
  • Sara Gazarek Singer
  • Jill Scott Spoken Word
  • Angel Bat Dawid Composer
  • Helen Shaw Writer
  • Nicolas Krassik Samba
  • Jay Mazza Writer
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh Piano
  • Omer Avital Middle Eastern Music
  • Ivan Sacerdote Brazilian Jazz
  • Paulão 7 Cordas Samba
  • Marquis Hill Chicago
  • Mateus Aleluia Filho Flugelhorn
  • Nabihah Iqbal Electronic, Experimental, Alternative Music
  • Magda Giannikou Film Scores
  • Afrocidade Dub
  • Stephen Guerra New York City
  • Intisar Abioto Portland, Oregon
  • Daphne A. Brooks Music Critic
  • Carlos Henriquez Northwestern University Faculty
  • Tshepiso Ledwaba Clarinet
  • NIcholas Casey Madrid
  • Alegre Corrêa Brazilian Jazz
  • Dezron Douglas Record Producer
  • Shannon Ali Arts Journalist
  • Nate Smith Television Scores
  • Gringo Cardia Video Director
  • Gevorg Dabaghyan Armenian Folk Music
  • Martin Koenig Liner Notes
  • Tomoko Omura Japan
  • Willy Schwarz Songwriter
  • Paulão 7 Cordas Cavaquinho
  • Ben Cox Director of Photography
  • Ênio Bernardes Choro
  • Lalah Hathaway Record Producer
  • Arto Tunçboyacıyan Duduk
  • Robby Krieger Los Angeles
  • Christopher Seneca Writer
  • Willy Schwarz Jewish Music
  • Flora Purim Brazilian Jazz
  • Utar Artun Jazz
  • Mario Caldato Jr. Keyboards
  • Gian Correa Brazil
  • Bobby Fouther Painter
  • Zigaboo Modeliste Second Line
  • Kaveh Rastegar Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Daymé Arocena Composer
  • Ben Williams Jazz
  • Peter Erskine USC Thornton School of Music Faculty
  • Clint Smith Writer

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

 

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