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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.

 

  • Cinho Damatta
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CURATION

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This is the Universe of

  • Name: Cinho Damatta
  • City/Place: Salvador, Bahia
  • Country: Brazil

Life & Work

  • Bio: Cinho Damatta is a singer/songwriter guitarist, who, among much else, is part of the MicroTrio de Ivan Huol.

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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 Cinho Damatta:

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  • 3 Brasil, Brazil
  • 3 Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • 3 Guitarra, Guitar
  • 3 MPB
  • 3 Salvador
  • Garvia Bailey Toronto
  • Victor Wooten Author
  • Shaun Martin Keyboards
  • Alê Siqueira Bahia
  • Geraldo Azevedo Pernambuco
  • Tyshawn Sorey Composer
  • Shoshana Zuboff Social Psychology
  • Mario Caldato Jr. Brazil
  • Zoran Orlić Photographer
  • Bob Bernotas Writer
  • Joe Chambers Jazz
  • Nettrice R. Gaskins Afro-Futurist
  • Brady Haran Podcaster
  • Psoy Korolenko Псой Короленко Jewish Music
  • Jorge Alfredo Bahia
  • James Strauss Contemporary Classical Music
  • Cashmere Cat Norway
  • Varijashree Venugopal Brazilian Music
  • Marc Johnson Jazz
  • Clarice Assad Piano
  • Pedro Martins Brazil
  • Melanie Charles Soul
  • Mike Marshall Violin
  • Papa Mali Record Producer
  • Simon Singh Journalist
  • Mário Santana São Braz
  • Chris Speed New York City
  • Margareth Menezes Guitar
  • Eli Degibri אלי דג'יברי Israel
  • Kaveh Rastegar Los Angeles
  • Gord Sheard Toronto
  • Custódio Castelo Portugal
  • Darol Anger Composer
  • Branford Marsalis Saxophone
  • Sam Eastmond Trumpet
  • Antonio García Film Scores
  • Mingus Big Band Jazz
  • Mono/Poly DJ
  • Gerald Cleaver Jazz
  • Kiko Freitas Drums
  • Rachael Price Jazz
  • Lauranne Bourrachot Movie Producer
  • Steve Coleman Composer
  • Yoko Miwa Composer
  • Andy Kershaw Radio Presenter
  • Ayrson Heráclito Visual Artist
  • Corey Henry New Orleans
  • Sergio Krakowski Brazil
  • June Yamagishi Blues
  • Neo Muyanga Writer
  • Ronald Bruner Jr. Record Producer
  • Dieu-Nalio Chery Photojournalist
  • Arturo O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Ben Okri Poet
  • Tommaso Zillio Canada
  • Darrell Green New York City
  • Huey Morgan Singer
  • Kiko Loureiro Heavy Metal
  • Michelle Mercer Radio Producer
  • Dafnis Prieto Cuba
  • John Medeski Keyboards
  • Tom Piazza Screenwriter
  • Matt Ulery Loyola University Faculty
  • Forrest Hylton Writer
  • Chico César Paraíba
  • Martin Koenig Photographer
  • Matt Glaser Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Aloísio Menezes Samba
  • Kaveh Rastegar Bass
  • Demond Melancon Black Masker
  • Mariana Zwarg Samba
  • Julien Libeer Piano
  • Congahead African Music
  • Patty Kiss Multi-Instrumentalista, Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Maria Bethânia Brazil
  • Chico César Poet
  • Marquis Hill Composer
  • Tommaso Zillio Prog Rock
  • Lokua Kanza African Music
  • Babau Santana Partido Alto
  • Angel Deradoorian Los Angeles
  • Jacob Collier Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Gustavo Caribé Compositor, Composer
  • VJ Gabiru Brasil, Brazil
  • Gord Sheard Composer
  • Mauro Senise Rio de Janeiro
  • Sting Singer-Songwriter
  • Sam Dagher Syria
  • Lina Lapelytė Installation Artist
  • Adenor Gondim Bahia
  • Rayendra Sunito Jakarta
  • Tom Bergeron Saxophone
  • Ashley Pezzotti Singer-Songwriter
  • Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah Mardi Gras Indian
  • Adam Neely New York City
  • Charles Munka Collage
  • Jorge Washington AFROBIZ Salvador
  • Owen Williams Marketer
  • Colm Tóibín Playwright
  • Allen Morrison Jazz
  • Marcus J. Moore Music Journalist
  • Brooklyn Rider Multi-Cultural
  • Derek Sivers Guitar
  • Tomo Fujita Author
  • Marc Ribot Experimental Music
  • Elizabeth LaPrelle Banjo
  • Alain Mabanckou Writer
  • David Chesky Piano
  • Oded Lev-Ari Music Producer
  • Masao Fukuda Guitar
  • Elif Şafak Essayist
  • Liron Meyuhas Israel
  • Buck Jones Salvador
  • John Doyle Ireland
  • John Patitucci Composer
  • Giovanni Russonello Magazine Founder, Editor
  • Swizz Beatz DJ
  • Igor Osypov Germany
  • Nettrice R. Gaskins Afro-Futurist
  • Brian Stoltz New Orleans
  • Devin Naar Writer
  • Adonis Rose Drums
  • Marcus Strickland Saxophone
  • Marco Pereira Brazil
  • Rowney Scott Diretor Artístico, Artistic Director
  • Shaun Martin Gospel
  • Hamilton de Holanda Bandolim
  • Ronald Bruner Jr. Composer
  • Otto Percussion
  • Chano Domínguez Composer
  • David Ritz Lyricist
  • Felipe Guedes Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Grégoire Maret Composer
  • Peter Erskine Jazz
  • Steve Cropper Record Producer
  • Judith Hill Singer-Songwriter
  • Karla Vasquez Cooking Classes
  • Pedro Abib Federal University of Bahia Faculty
  • Shaun Martin Hip-Hop
  • Roy Ayers New York City
  • Jupiter Bokondji Kinshasa
  • Shamarr Allen Singer-Songwriter
  • Dezron Douglas Bass
  • Isaias Rabelo Salvador
  • Gino Banks India
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Salvador
  • Carlos Aguirre Singer
  • Sérgio Mendes Singer-Songwriter
  • Joey Alexander New York City
  • Carlos Aguirre Piano
  • Fapy Lafertin Manouche
  • Monk Boudreaux Mardi Gras Indian
  • Laércio de Freitas Piano
  • Gustavo Caribé Baixo, Bass
  • Nicholas Daniel Music Director
  • Joatan Nascimento Choro
  • Ari Rosenschein Journalist
  • Jeff Tang Brooklyn, NY
  • Asali Solomon Haverford College Faculty
  • Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh Composer
  • Terence Blanchard Trumpet
  • Frank Negrão Brazil
  • Horacio Hernández Cuba
  • Nego Álvaro Brazil
  • Gabriel Geszti Jazz Brasileiro, Brazilian Jazz
  • Anat Cohen Jazz
  • Gerson Silva Brazil
  • Jeff Preiss Producer
  • Loli Molina Guitar
  • Estrela Brilhante do Recife Pernambuco
  • Ayrson Heráclito Set Designer
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Samba
  • Celso de Almeida MPB
  • Brandee Younger Composer
  • Mateus Aleluia Filho Cachoeira
  • Phakama Mbonambi Johannesburg
  • Asa Branca Chula
  • RAM Haiti
  • Curtis Hasselbring Trombone
  • Henrique Cazes Brazil
  • Jovino Santos Neto Brazilian Jazz
  • Tshepiso Ledwaba Steinway Piano Technician
  • John Harle Television Scores
  • Joe Newberry Bluegrass
  • Maciel Salú Cavalo Marinho
  • Sunna Gunnlaugs Jazz
  • Milton Nascimento Minas Gerais
  • Michael Janisch Soul
  • Ayrson Heráclito Multimedia Artist
  • Meklit Hadero San Francisco
  • Tom Green Glasgow
  • Leandro Afonso Brazil
  • João do Boi Brazil
  • Mino Cinélu New York City
  • Yvette Holzwarth Los Angeles
  • Leci Brandão Brazil
  • Fabiana Cozza São Paulo
  • Albin Zak Musicologist
  • Christopher Seneca Drums
  • Negra Jhô Bahia
  • Concha Buika Singer-Songwriter
  • Cashmere Cat DJ
  • Donald Vega Composer
  • Swizz Beatz Songwriter
  • Edgar Meyer Bluegrass
  • Chris Dave Drums
  • Aindrias de Staic Storyteller
  • Ron Miles Composer
  • David Byrne Film Scores
  • Alex Conde Arranger
  • Jakub Józef Orliński Hip-Hop
  • Nic Hard DJ
  • Keshav Batish Multi-Cultural
  • Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin Ethnomusicologist
  • Richie Pena Writer
  • Jessie Montgomery Educator
  • Demond Melancon Mardi Gras Indian
  • João Luiz Choro
  • Alicia Svigals Klezmer Fiddle
  • Carlinhos Brown Record Producer
  • Jan Ramsey Culture Journalist
  • Makaya McCraven Record Producer
  • Cristovão Bastos Brazil
  • David Byrne Singer-Songwriter
  • Nancy Ruth Multi-Cultural
  • Vincent Herring Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Alicia Hall Moran Jazz
  • Ivan Neville Keyboards
  • Luiz Brasil Samba
  • Marcus Miller Film Scores
  • Kimmo Pohjonen Accordion
  • Jeff Coffin Record Label Owner
  • D.D. Jackson Jazz
  • Matt Glaser Bluegrass
  • Antonio García Piano
  • Wynton Marsalis Classical Music
  • Papa Mali Reggae
  • Tonynho dos Santos Teclado, Keyboards
  • Roosevelt Collier Pedal Steel Guitar
  • Keola Beamer Hawaiian Music
  • Katuka Africanidades Livraria, Bookshop
  • Ivan Huol Salvador
  • Magda Giannikou Singer
  • Júlio Caldas Compositor, Songwriter
  • Ayrson Heráclito Federal University of the Recôncavo of Bahia Faculty
  • Vinson Cunningham Sarah Lawrence College Faculty
  • Joanna Majoko Germany
  • Daymé Arocena Composer
  • Avishai Cohen Composer
  • Mariana Zwarg Flute
  • Bebê Kramer Rio Grande do Sul
  • Leandro Afonso Film Producer
  • Marisa Monte Singer-Songwriter
  • Ayrson Heráclito Cachoeira
  • Richard Bona Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Alan Williams Furniture
  • Robby Krieger Painter
  • John Morrison Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Chris McQueen App Developer
  • Juliana Ribeiro Musicologist
  • Ricardo Herz Brazil
  • Yayá Massemba Bahia
  • Welson Tremura Singer
  • Ravi Coltrane Jazz
  • Askia Davis Sr. Writer
  • The Umoza Music Project Multi-Cultural
  • Ken Coleman Writer
  • Questlove DJ
  • Tonynho dos Santos Bahia
  • Diana Fuentes Cuba
  • Jean-Paul Bourelly Composer
  • Bill Hinchberger Educator
  • David Sacks Jazz
  • Dave Jordan Singer-Songwriter
  • ANNA Brazil
  • Julian Lage Jazz
  • Liz Pelly Brooklyn, NY
  • Brad Mehldau Jazz
  • 小野リサ Lisa Ono Jazz
  • Matt Ulery Contemporary Classical Music
  • Vânia Oliveira Coreógrafa, Choreographer
  • Alex Mesquita Federal University of Bahia Faculty
  • Marc Ribot Free Jazz
  • Garvia Bailey Radio Producer
  • Anouar Brahem Multi-Cultural
  • Ben Harper Gospel
  • King Britt Computer Music
  • Kevin Hays Composer
  • Anthony Coleman Piano
  • Wouter Kellerman South Africa
  • Johnny Lorenz Essayist
  • Tyshawn Sorey Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Ben Allison New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music Faculty
  • Harvey G. Cohen Songwriter
  • Marcelinho Oliveira Music Producer
  • Zé Katimba Singer-Songwriter
  • John Luther Adams Contemporary Classical Music
  • Tarus Mateen Bass
  • Mulatu Astatke Percussion
  • David Bragger Mandolin
  • Joatan Nascimento Federal University of Bahia Faculty
  • Kim André Arnesen Choral Works
  • Steve Lehman Saxophone
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. MPB
  • Tom Piazza Writer
  • Oleg Fateev Moldavia
  • Nara Couto Cantora, Singer
  • Luedji Luna Brazil
  • Samuca do Acordeon Chamamé
  • Chris Thile Classical Music
  • Sparrow Roberts Bahia
  • Veronica Swift Composer
  • Lô Borges Belo Horizonte
  • Andrew Dickson Journalist
  • Giba Conceição Candomblé
  • Branford Marsalis New Orleans
  • Joshua White San Diego, California
  • Marilda Santanna Salvador
  • Robertinho Silva Brazilian Jazz
  • Helado Negro Singer-Songwriter
  • Samba de Nicinha Bahia
  • Jim Hoke Arranger
  • Stormzy UK
  • Mestrinho MPB
  • Ayrson Heráclito Visual Artist
  • Serginho Meriti Singer
  • Oteil Burbridge Jazz
  • Kyle Poole New York City
  • Will Vinson Composer
  • Colm Tóibín Novelist
  • Michael Formanek Bandleader
  • Leo Genovese Argentina
  • Catherine Bent Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Sam Yahel Piano Instruction
  • Munir Hossn Multi-Cultural
  • Gevorg Dabaghyan Armenian Folk Music
  • John Boutté Jazz
  • Dadi Carvalho Rio de Janeiro
  • G. Thomas Allen Singer-Songwriter
  • Welson Tremura Bossa Nova
  • Guillermo Klein Jazz
  • Natalia Contesse Chilean Folk Music
  • Román Díaz Cuba
  • Fred Hersch Rutgers University Faculty
  • Rogê MPB
  • Ivan Lins Singer-Songwriter
  • Zebrinha Brasil, Brazil
  • Roy Germano Filmmaker
  • Carlos Lyra Singer-Songwriter
  • Nicole Mitchell University of Pittsburgh Faculty

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