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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...

 

It 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..."

 

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.

 

  • Chris Boardman
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  • Name: Chris Boardman
  • City/Place: Miami, Florida
  • Country: United States

Life & Work

  • Bio: Composer, arranger, entrepreneur, professor, social media content strategist, lecturer, recording artist, conductor...

    Chris Boardman is the director of the Media Writing and Production Program at the University of Miami Frost School of Music and teaches Film Scoring and Advanced Music Editing. Beginning his career in the film, television and recording industries in 1974, Boardman has consistently worked at the top echelon of the entertainment industry receiving an Academy Award nomination for "The Color Purple", 6 Emmy Awards, 13 Emmy nominations, ASCAP and BMI awards and multiple platinum records for work with such iconic artists as Quincy Jones, David Foster, Steven Spielberg, Julie Andrews, Shirley MacLaine, Barbara Streisand, Marvin Hamlisch and Josh Groban.

    Well known in Hollywood circles and one of a handful of musicians who can literally write anything, Boardman’s credits span both industry and genre. Whether it be conducting David Foster’s "World Children’s Day" for television, composing the '70s inspired score for Mel Gibson’s "Payback", arranging period dance music for "Swing Kids" and "Meet Joe Black", orchestrating "Chaplin" for Broadway or releasing and producing solo recordings as an artist, Boardman embraces these challenges with characteristic integrity and passion, making him one of the most uniquely versatile and highly respected musicians in the industry. He attended Weber State University and continued on to California State University Northridge, working simultaneously in Los Angeles recording studios.

    Always looking for new challenges, Boardman is the founder of a successful social media content strategy consulting business and is at the forefront of the fast moving online media space.

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  • ▶ Website: http://chrisboardmanmusic.com
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/chimimimusic
  • ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCmkPdwYHYb5WJ0Haer4NWuQ
  • ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5Wlqyewqj95KdMnZMB2O5g

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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 Chris Boardman:

  • 1 Arranger
  • 1 Composer
  • 1 Film Scores
  • 1 Orchestrator
  • 1 Producer
  • 1 Television Scores
  • 1 University of Miami Frost School of Music Faculty
  • Ronaldo do Bandolim Brazil
  • Amilton Godoy Classical Music
  • Daniil Trifonov Russia
  • Ben Allison Radio Program Scores
  • Siphiwe Mhlambi South Africa
  • Adonis Rose Percussion
  • Martin Hayes County Clare
  • Ron Miles Cornet
  • Donny McCaslin Saxophone
  • Seckou Keita Senegal
  • Yamandu Costa Guitar
  • Geraldo Azevedo Singer-Songwriter
  • Adam Cruz Composer
  • Plamen Karadonev Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Luíz Paixão Composer
  • Andrés Beeuwsaert Buenos Aires
  • Darren Barrett Record Producer
  • Kaveh Rastegar Los Angeles
  • Aneesa Strings Bass
  • Arto Lindsay Composer
  • Andrew Finn Magill Ropeadope
  • Ben Hazleton Tabla
  • Dee Spencer Piano
  • Bill T. Jones Writer
  • Kiko Freitas Jazz
  • Michael Olatuja Afrobeat
  • Fábio Luna Violão, Guitar
  • Jam no MAM Brasil, Brazil
  • Toninho Nascimento Brazil
  • Johnathan Blake Composer
  • Wayne Krantz Composer
  • Mário Pam Bahia
  • Leci Brandão Brazil
  • John Zorn Composer
  • Tomoko Omura Composer
  • Bruce Williams Composer
  • Kim Hill Entrepreneur
  • Shalom Adonai Chula
  • Cristovão Bastos Brazil
  • Pat Metheny Jazz
  • Benoit Fader Keita Techno
  • Domingos Preto Brazil
  • Kiya Tabassian كيا طبسيان Multi-Cultural
  • Deesha Philyaw Essayist
  • Jeff Ballard New York City
  • Arthur Verocai Guitar
  • Kurt Andersen Writer
  • Pedro Aznar Buenos Aires
  • Jovino Santos Neto Record Producer
  • Cleber Augusto Poet
  • Bukassa Kabengele Congo
  • Jane Ira Bloom Saxophone
  • Cássio Nobre Ethnomusicologist
  • Cássio Nobre Brazil
  • Tab Benoit Louisiana
  • Negra Jhô Bahia
  • Barry Harris Piano
  • María Grand Saxophone
  • Yoko Miwa Composer
  • Elio Villafranca Cuba
  • Leo Genovese Piano
  • Pedro Aznar Buenos Aires
  • Doug Adair TechBeat
  • Alex Conde Arranger
  • Alexandre Gismonti Guitar
  • Andrew Dickson Journalist
  • Barlavento Samba de Roda
  • Carla Visi Bahia
  • Urânia Munzanzu Cineasta, Filmmaker
  • Adriene Cruz Textile Artist
  • Otmaro Ruiz Los Angeles
  • Bombino Niger
  • Custódio Castelo Produtor de Discos, Record Producer
  • Şener Özmen Photographer
  • Marcelo Caldi Accordion
  • Joey Baron Composer
  • Bertram Hand Percussion Performance
  • James Andrews Funk
  • Juçara Marçal São Paulo
  • Ronell Johnson Tuba
  • Andrés Beeuwsaert Composer
  • Béla Fleck Multi-Cultural
  • Tyler Gordon San Jose, California
  • Nana Nkweti Writer
  • Walter Pinheiro Composer
  • Rosa Passos Guitar
  • Jovino Santos Neto Rio de Janeiro
  • Masao Fukuda Samba
  • Cathal McNaughton Photographer
  • Anouar Brahem Oud
  • Cashmere Cat Norway
  • Atlantic Brass Quintet Classical Music
  • Issac Delgado Timba
  • Paquito D'Rivera Author
  • Paul Mahern Audio Preservation
  • Roy Ayers Jazz, Funk, R&B, Soul, Hip-Hop
  • Felipe Guedes Brazilian Jazz
  • Danilo Pérez Multi-Cultural
  • Capitão Corisco Salvador
  • Ari Rosenschein Journalist
  • Sam Dagher Author
  • Jon Cowherd Composer
  • Elif Şafak Turkey
  • Khruangbin Alt-World Music
  • Africania Chula
  • Richie Pena Writer
  • Stefano Bollani Italy
  • Marcel Powell Brazil
  • Peter Dasent Composer
  • Alan Brain Screenwriter
  • Wayne Escoffery New York City
  • Arthur L.A. Buckner Jazz
  • Ben Harper Singer-Songwriter
  • Dan Nimmer Composer
  • Deborah Colker Brazil
  • Shabaka Hutchings Composer
  • Nancy Viégas Produtora Áudiovisual, Audiovisual Producer
  • Jim Lauderdale Nashville, Tennessee
  • Ben Wolfe Composer
  • Nicholas Barber Arts Journalist
  • Juliana Ribeiro Brazil
  • Jau Salvador
  • Dwandalyn Reece Washington, D.C.
  • Marta Sánchez New York City
  • Chubby Carrier Zydeco
  • Camille Thurman Singer
  • Niwel Tsumbu Guitar
  • Goran Krivokapić Classical Guitar
  • Yola Americana
  • Milton Primo Bahia
  • Fidelis Melo Jornalista, Journalist
  • Giba Gonçalves Salvador
  • Brian Q. Torff Jazz
  • Ed Roth Los Angeles
  • Swami Jr. São Paulo
  • Betsayda Machado Venezuela
  • Beth Bahia Cohen Tanbur
  • Tank and the Bangas Hip-Hop
  • Oteil Burbridge Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Bahia
  • Luques Curtis Latin Jazz
  • Ricardo Herz Rabeca
  • Kris Davis New York City
  • Zara McFarlane Soul
  • Corey Ledet University of Louisiana at Lafayette Faculty
  • Nelson Sargento Rio de Janeiro
  • Linda May Han Oh New York City
  • Toninho Horta Singer
  • Jen Shyu Composer
  • Leo Nocentelli New Orleans
  • Samuel Organ Guitar
  • Issa Malluf Percussion
  • Linda May Han Oh Bass
  • Joshue Ashby Afro-Cuban Music
  • Nettrice R. Gaskins Writer
  • Paulinho do Reco Bahia
  • Marc Ribot Composer
  • Logan Richardson Flute
  • Samba de Nicinha Samba
  • Aurino de Jesus Samba de Viola
  • Mika Mutti Record Producer
  • Tal Wilkenfeld Bass
  • Musa Okwonga Uganda
  • John Medeski Jazz
  • Molly Tuttle Americana
  • Andrés Beeuwsaert Buenos Aires
  • Gabriel Grossi Composer
  • Ferenc Nemeth Hungary
  • Robin Eubanks Trombone
  • Kurt Andersen Playwright
  • Nancy Viégas Designer Gráfico, Graphic Designer
  • Sarz Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Scotty Apex Record Producer
  • Anoushka Shankar Piano
  • 9Bach Multi-Cultural
  • Baiba Skride Latvia
  • McCoy Mrubata Flute
  • Brandon Coleman Los Angeles
  • Paddy Groenland Composer
  • Marcel Powell Rio de Janeiro
  • Omar Sosa Marimba
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh Fiddle
  • Anat Cohen Israel
  • Isaak Bransah Choreographer
  • Tom Piazza New Orleans
  • Yvette Holzwarth Film, Television Recording
  • Calypso Rose Calypso
  • Merima Ključo Los Angeles
  • Bing Futch Mountain Dulcimer
  • Sarah Hanahan New York City
  • Muhsinah Soul
  • Stefano Bollani Classical Music
  • Jurandir Santana Bahia
  • Booker T. Jones Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Jorge Ben Rio de Janeiro
  • Myles Weinstein Agent
  • Daphne A. Brooks Black American Culture & History
  • Lenny Kravitz Record Producer
  • Elizabeth LaPrelle Folk & Traditional
  • Rogério Caetano Composer
  • Şener Özmen Kurdistan
  • Nettrice R. Gaskins STEAM Advocate
  • Sam Yahel Hammond B-3
  • Dudu Reis Bahia
  • Swizz Beatz Rapper
  • Paulo Dáfilin Viola Caipira
  • Victor Gama Contemporary Musical Instrument Design
  • Alex Clark Documentary Filmmaker
  • Psoy Korolenko Псой Короленко Songwriter
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Television Producer
  • Frank Negrão Blues
  • Alan Brain Film, Television Director
  • Alana Gabriela Brasil, Brazil
  • Jimmy Dludlu Highlife
  • Alexandre Vieira Compositor, Composer
  • Leonardo Mendes MPB
  • Serwah Attafuah Digital 3D Artist
  • Esperanza Spalding Jazz
  • Endea Owens Bass
  • Angelique Kidjo Benin
  • Shannon Ali Liner Notes
  • Liron Meyuhas Percussion
  • Igor Osypov Jazz Fusion
  • Monarco Rio de Janeiro
  • Anissa Senoussi VFX Artist
  • Robby Krieger Singer-Songwriter
  • Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah New Orleans
  • William Parker Poet
  • Lívia Mattos Accordion
  • Frank Negrão Salvador
  • Ayrson Heráclito Brazil
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Soul
  • Cyro Baptista Composer
  • Charles Munka Hong Kong
  • Marquis Hill African-American Music
  • Natan Drubi Bahia
  • Simon Brook Filmmaker
  • Seth Rogovoy Jewish Music
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Essayist
  • Alita Moses New York City
  • Joan Chamorro Barcelona
  • André Becker Jazz Brasileiro, Brazilian Jazz
  • David Chesky Record Producer
  • Jorge Pita Salvador
  • Peter Evans Trumpet
  • Curtis Hasselbring Arranger
  • Joshue Ashby Panama
  • María Grand Composer
  • Wilson Simoninha Music Producer
  • Steve Lehman Experimental Music
  • Serwah Attafuah Singer
  • Tarus Mateen R&B
  • Gab Ferruz MPB
  • Gerônimo Santana Salvador
  • João Bosco Singer-Songwriter
  • João Teoria Compositor, Composer
  • Chris Dingman Multi-Cultural
  • Gino Banks India
  • Giovanni Russonello Washington, D.C.
  • João Luiz Composer
  • Arthur Verocai MPB
  • Dadi Carvalho Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Terence Blanchard Film Scores
  • Pedro Aznar Argentina
  • Michael League Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Anthony Hamilton Soul
  • Ray Angry Keyboards
  • Larissa Fulana de Tal Salvador
  • BIGYUKI Composer
  • Chris Potter Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Sahba Aminikia Composer
  • Frank Negrão Funk
  • Brian Stoltz R&B
  • Hercules Gomes MPB
  • Sandro Albert Composer
  • Sahba Aminikia San Francisco
  • Olga Mieleszczuk Singer
  • Henry Cole Puerto Rico
  • Richard Bona Multi-Cultural
  • Kotringo Tokyo
  • Lenny Kravitz Designer
  • Alain Pérez Cuba
  • Chris Boardman Orchestrator
  • Celino dos Santos Brazil
  • Catherine Bent Cello
  • Betão Aguiar Rio de Janeiro
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson DJ
  • Benny Benack III Piano
  • Alexia Arthurs New York City
  • Guga Stroeter Candomblé
  • Chick Corea Jazz
  • Welson Tremura Singer
  • Casey Benjamin Record Producer
  • Garth Cartwright London
  • Maia Sharp Country
  • Sam Wasson Cultural Historian
  • Menelaw Sete Salvador
  • Astrig Akseralian Mixed Media Art
  • Adonis Rose Composer
  • Banning Eyre African Music
  • Seckou Keita Multi-Cultural
  • China Moses Soul
  • Lakecia Benjamin Saxophone
  • Ron Mader Professional Speaker
  • Larry McCray Guitar
  • Madhuri Vijay Writer
  • Raelis Vasquez Chicago
  • Marcelo Caldi Brazil
  • Archie Shepp Jazz
  • Inaicyra Falcão Opera
  • João Camarero Samba
  • Ned Sublette Guitar
  • Jim Farber Music Critic
  • Shannon Sims New Orleans
  • Yoko Miwa Piano
  • Keola Beamer Hawaiian Music
  • Mateus Aleluia Candomblé
  • Jack Talty University College Cork Faculty
  • Ken Coleman Essayist
  • Bob Reynolds Saxophone Instruction
  • Nardis Jazz Club Istanbul
  • Anthony Hervey Actor
  • Owen Williams Software Engineer
  • Sam Dagher Syria
  • Felipe Guedes Brazil
  • Gilmar Gomes Guitar
  • Victoria Sur Colombia
  • Tank and the Bangas R&B
  • Darren Barrett Trumpet
  • Safy-Hallan Farah Somalia
  • Trombone Shorty Songwriter
  • Sombrinha Singer-Songwriter
  • Ben Wolfe Jazz
  • Philipp Meyer Austin, Texas
  • Cedric Watson Singer-Songwriter
  • Etienne Charles Trinidad
  • Cláudio Jorge Rio de Janeiro
  • The Bayou Mosquitos Zydeco
  • Siba Veloso Ciranda
  • Béla Fleck Songwriter
  • Duncan Chisholm Traditional Scottish Music
  • Jill Scott Singer-Songwriter
  • Nação Zumbi Brazil
  • Harish Raghavan Bass
  • J. Cunha Cenógrafo, Scenographer
  • Caterina Lichtenberg Author
  • Taj Mahal Singer-Songwriter
  • Yasushi Nakamura Bass
  • Ricardo Herz Choro
  • Joel Ross Vibraphone

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

 

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