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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.

 

  • Casa Preta
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Criador acima/Creator above

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Casa Preta
  • City/Place: Salvador, Bahia
  • Country: Brazil
  • Location & Map: R. Areal de Cima, 40 - Dois de Julho, Salvador - BA 40060-220 [open map]

Life & Work

  • Bio: Um espaço de criação, produção, formação, fruição e intercâmbio artístico e cultural.

Contact Information

  • Email: [email protected]
  • Contact by Webpage: http://casapreta.art.br/contact/
  • Telephone: +55 (71) 98779-6093

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Instagram: casapretaespacodecultura
  • ▶ Website: http://casapreta.art.br
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/CasaPretaEspa%C3%A7odeCultura

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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 Casa Preta:

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  • 3 Brasil, Brazil
  • 3 Espaço de Cultura, Cultural Space
  • 3 Local de Música ao Vivo, Live Music Venue
  • 3 Salvador
  • 3 Teatro, Theater
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  • Saul Williams Actor
  • Paulo Martelli Brasil, Brazil
  • Armen Donelian Multi-Cultural
  • Swami Jr. Cuban Music
  • Melvin Gibbs Jazz Fusion
  • Djuena Tikuna Indigenous Brazilian Music
  • Eddie Kadi Actor
  • Ben Azar Guitar Instruction
  • Carlos Henriquez Composer
  • Cut Worms Singer-Songwriter
  • Larissa Luz Actor
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  • Zachary Richard Accordion
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  • Plinio Oyò Samba de Roda
  • Jacob Collier Singer
  • Olivia Trummer Composer
  • Rosa Passos Singer-Songwriter
  • Nabihah Iqbal Music Producer
  • Bill Frisell Americana
  • Igor Osypov Ukraine
  • Robert Glasper Record Producer
  • Sarz Contemporary R&B
  • J. Velloso Record Producer
  • Dumpstaphunk New Orleans
  • David Braid London
  • David Kirby Journalist
  • Casa PretaHub Cachoeira Cachoeira
  • Parker Ighile Africa
  • Lula Galvão Brazilian Jazz
  • Cédric Villani Paris
  • Ronald Bruner Jr. Drums
  • ANNA Berlin
  • Bob Reynolds Saxophone Instruction
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh Celtic
  • Chris Speed Saxophone
  • Run the Jewels Hip-Hop
  • Tyler Hayes Tech Writer
  • Yunior Terry Cuba
  • Guinga Rio de Janeiro
  • Jay Mazza New Orleans
  • Alex Rawls Music, Culture Website Owner, Editor
  • Raphael Saadiq Record Producer
  • Maciel Salú Singer
  • Karsh Kale कर्ष काळे Indian Classical Music
  • Henrique Cazes Viola Caipira
  • Sarz Record Producer
  • Giorgi Mikadze გიორგი მიქაძე New York City
  • Jovino Santos Neto Seattle
  • Martin Koenig Balkan Dance
  • Steve Cropper Nashville, Tennessee
  • Olivia Trummer Germany
  • Tank and the Bangas Spoken Word
  • Joe Lovano Jazz
  • Perumal Murugan Short Stories
  • Amit Chatterjee Multi-Cultural
  • Chris McQueen Austin, Texas
  • Will Holshouser Jazz
  • José Antonio Escobar Spain
  • Kengo Kuma Architect
  • Afrocidade Dub
  • Deborah Colker Rio de Janeiro
  • Tessa Hadley Writer
  • Manuel Alejandro Rangel Caracas
  • Jam no MAM Jam Sessions
  • Swami Jr. Violão de Sete
  • Luizinho Assis Produtor Musical, Music Producer
  • Lionel Loueke Composer
  • Adriano Giffoni Author
  • Estrela Brilhante do Recife Maracatu
  • Jelly Green Painter
  • Barlavento Bahia
  • Roque Ferreira Brazil
  • A-KILL Street Artist
  • Luques Curtis Afro-Latin Dance Music
  • Rudy Royston Composer
  • Howard Levy Blues & Folk
  • Laura Cole Singer-Songwriter
  • Aindrias de Staic Actor
  • Luíz Paixão Cavalo Marinho
  • Jerry Douglas Nashville, Tennessee
  • Victoria Sur Bogotá
  • Quincy Jones Trumpet
  • Spider Stacy Tin Whistle
  • Ana Tijoux Rapper
  • Harvey G. Cohen Political Historian
  • Frank Olinsky Parson's School of Design Faculty
  • Lula Galvão Guitar
  • Isaias Rabelo Jazz
  • Isaias Rabelo Brazil
  • Aindrias de Staic Galway
  • Martin Fondse Arranger
  • Aruán Ortiz Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Helado Negro Singer-Songwriter
  • Jan Ramsey Culture Journalist
  • Mohamed Diab Cairo
  • Booker T. Jones Record Producer
  • Bob Reynolds Jazz
  • Adriene Cruz Quilts
  • Kris Davis Piano
  • Monty's Good Burger Vegan Restaurant
  • Frank Beacham Journalist
  • Capitão Corisco Brazil
  • Shankar Mahadevan Bollywood
  • Ronell Johnson Jazz
  • Sean Jones Composer
  • Justin Brown Drums
  • Celso Fonseca Singer
  • Terri Hinte Liner Notes
  • Elio Villafranca Juilliard Faculty
  • Yotam Silberstein New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music Faculty
  • Carrtoons Bass
  • Mike Compton Country Blues
  • Teddy Swims Georgia
  • César Camargo Mariano Brazilian Jazz
  • Gerônimo Santana Salvador
  • Terell Stafford Classical Music
  • Scott Yanow Jazz Journalist
  • D.D. Jackson Television Scores
  • Ilê Aiyê Salvador
  • Stuart Duncan Banjo
  • Stephanie Foden Brazil
  • Ambrose Akinmusire Trumpet
  • Jon Otis Percussion
  • Samuel Organ Guitar
  • Guto Wirtti Samba
  • Menelaw Sete Salvador
  • Derrick Hodge Bass
  • Júlio Lemos Composer
  • Anat Cohen New York City
  • Onisajé Dramaturga, Playwright
  • Nana Nkweti Fiction
  • Jorge Ben Brazil
  • James Poyser Record Producer
  • Ry Cooder Multi-Instrumentalist
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  • Cainã Cavalcante MPB
  • Domingos Preto Brazil
  • Mike Moreno Guitar
  • Warren Wolf Piano
  • Celsinho Silva Rio de Janeiro
  • Doug Adair TechBeat
  • Timothy Duffy Photographer
  • Martin Koenig Ethnomusicologist
  • Sierra Hull Americana
  • Jan Ramsey Louisiana
  • Isaak Bransah Brazil
  • Adriene Cruz Textile Artist
  • G. Thomas Allen Columbia College Chicago Faculty
  • Paulo Martelli Violão Clássico, Classical Guitar
  • Bill Hinchberger Journalist
  • Matt Garrison Jazz Fusion
  • John Medeski Jazz
  • John Patrick Murphy Pernambuco
  • Anders Osborne New Orleans
  • Terence Blanchard Film Scores
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  • Thundercat Los Angeles
  • Carlinhos Brown Record Producer
  • John Zorn Record Label Owner
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  • Steve McKeever Los Angeles
  • Kiko Freitas Rio de Janeiro
  • Eddie Kadi Congo
  • Stacy Dillard Jazz
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Essayist
  • Andy Kershaw Radio Presenter
  • Teresa Cristina Singer
  • Martín Sued Argentina
  • Herlin Riley Tambourine
  • Howard Levy Record Label Owner
  • Jake Oleson Brooklyn, NY
  • Gustavo Di Dalva Salvador
  • Inon Barnatan New York City
  • Otmaro Ruiz Los Angeles
  • Yazhi Guo 郭雅志 Jazz
  • Diana Fuentes Havana
  • Nic Hard Record Producer
  • Michael Janisch Funk
  • Victor Gama Contemporary Musical Instrument Design
  • Shankar Mahadevan India
  • Vadinho França Bahia
  • Mark Stryker Detroit
  • Arifan Junior Samba
  • Romero Lubambo Jazz
  • Hot Dougie's Bahia
  • Donald Harrison Jazz
  • Will Vinson Composer
  • Eddie Palmieri Bandleader
  • Nublu East Village
  • Musa Okwonga Podcaster
  • Bejun Mehta Berlin
  • Dave Holland Bass
  • Anissa Senoussi London
  • Victor Gama Experimental Music
  • David Sacks Vocals
  • Bob Bernotas Writer
  • Gamelan Sekar Jaya Indonesia
  • Rahim AlHaj Iraq
  • Rachael Price Singer-Songwriter
  • Christopher Wilkinson Movie Director
  • Ken Dossar Bahia
  • D.D. Jackson Piano
  • Paul Mahern Record Producer
  • Raymundo Sodré Bahia
  • Ron Miles Trumpet
  • Cyro Baptista Composer
  • JD Allen Composer
  • Jam no MAM Bahia
  • Jack Talty Irish Traditional Music
  • Ken Dossar Philadelphia
  • Timothy Duffy New Orleans
  • Dónal Lunny Irish Traditional Music
  • Papa Mali Blues
  • Maria Bethânia Singer
  • Rudy Royston Educator
  • Gilsons MPB
  • Kiko Souza Jazz Brasileiro, Brazilian Jazz
  • Kiko Freitas Drum Instruction
  • Siba Veloso Recife
  • Ari Rosenschein Indie Pop
  • Larry Achiampong Composer
  • Jocelyn Ramirez Chef
  • Ron Miles Jazz
  • Archie Shepp Record Label Owner
  • Capinam Diretor de Museu, Museum Director
  • Mestre Nenel Capoeira
  • Bill Pearis Writer
  • Shanequa Gay Multimedia Artist
  • Maciel Salú Pernambuco
  • Joshua Abrams Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Peter Erskine Author
  • Sam Wasson Author
  • Paulo Dáfilin Guitar
  • Fernando César Composer
  • Luiz Santos Brazil
  • Menelaw Sete Escultor, Sculptor
  • Julien Libeer Brussels
  • Béco Dranoff Record Label Owner
  • Alan Bishop Bass
  • John Francis Flynn Rough Trade, River Lea
  • Zachary Richard Singer-Songwriter
  • Mestre Nenel Salvador
  • Ben Hazleton Bass
  • Delfeayo Marsalis Trombone
  • Jau Singer-Songwriter
  • Armandinho Macêdo Guitarra Baiana
  • Garth Cartwright Writer
  • Oded Lev-Ari New York City
  • Paulo Aragão MPB
  • Theo Bleckmann Jazz
  • Siphiwe Mhlambi Photographer
  • Morgan Page DJ
  • Stanton Moore Second Line
  • Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro Rio de Janeiro
  • Aindrias de Staic Fiddle
  • Mário Pam Percussion
  • Susana Baca Multi-Cultural
  • Andrew Huang Toronto
  • Plínio Fernandes Brazil
  • Ron Miles Cornet
  • Ronaldo do Bandolim Choro
  • Igor Osypov Jazz Fusion
  • Rudresh Mahanthappa Jazz
  • Chris Thile Mandolin
  • Lilli Lewis New Orleans
  • Asali Solomon Writer
  • Yoruba Andabo Cuba
  • Mateus Alves Recife
  • Nguyên Lê Guitar
  • Jane Ira Bloom New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music Faculty
  • Luciano Salvador Bahia Guitar
  • Sebastian Notini Bateria, Drums
  • Cristovão Bastos Choro
  • Jorge Alfredo Cineasta, Filmmaker
  • Aneesa Strings R&B
  • Ron Mader Writer
  • Casa PretaHub Cachoeira Estúdio de Gravação, Recording Studio
  • David Ritz Los Angeles
  • Jill Scott Spoken Word
  • Benny Benack III Piano
  • Stuart Duncan Nashville, Tennessee
  • Jaleel Shaw Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Karim Ziad Composer
  • Dwayne Dopsie Louisiana
  • Joel Best Sculptor
  • Nelson Ayres Arranger
  • Vijay Gupta Los Angeles Philharmonic
  • Dadá do Trombone Trombone
  • Nação Zumbi Rap
  • Itamar Vieira Júnior Writer
  • Loli Molina Buenos Aires
  • Alma Deutscher Piano
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Samba Rock
  • Fidelis Melo Brasil, Brazil
  • Michael Olatuja Bass
  • Terell Stafford Trumpet
  • Jussara Silveira Singer
  • Anouar Brahem Multi-Cultural
  • Alicia Hall Moran New York City
  • Nelson Cerqueira Brasil, Brazil
  • Tony Allen Composer
  • Welson Tremura Singer
  • Olivia Trummer Composer
  • Michael Doucet Cajun Music
  • Otto Pernambuco
  • Ravi Coltrane Record Label Owner
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Sambalanço
  • Marilda Santanna Brasil, Brazil
  • Orlando Costa Brazil
  • Horácio Reis Faculdade da Ucsal, Catholic University of Salvador Faculty
  • Dadi Carvalho MPB
  • Tele Novella Psych Pop
  • Olga Mieleszczuk Poland
  • Guilherme Kastrup São Paulo
  • Arturo O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Dan Nimmer Composer
  • Reena Esmail Composer
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Tokyo
  • Echezonachukwu Nduka Singer
  • Joan Chamorro Saxophone
  • Fabian Almazan Record Label Owner
  • Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah Record Producer
  • Michael Pipoquinha MPB
  • Danilo Pérez Boston
  • Maladitso Band Singer-Songwriters
  • Lynn Nottage Columbia University Faculty
  • Sameer Gupta Composer
  • Yacouba Sissoko New York City
  • Joe Newberry Banjo
  • Parker Ighile London
  • John Waters Writer
  • Tomoko Omura Violin
  • Bai Kamara Jr. Singer-Songwriter
  • Moacyr Luz Rio de Janeiro
  • Ronaldo do Bandolim Mandolin
  • Luizinho Assis Bahia
  • Carl Allen Record Producer
  • Theo Bleckmann New York City
  • Sombrinha Bandolim
  • Guinga Brazil
  • Lula Galvão Arranger
  • Fred P DJ
  • Anissa Senoussi Matte Painter

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

 

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