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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.

 

  • Daniel Jobim
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CURATION

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  • Name: Daniel Jobim
  • City/Place: Rio de Janeiro
  • Country: Brazil

Life & Work

  • Bio: Daniel Jobim is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and piano player. He was part of the Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum and has performed with Stevie Wonder, Sting and others. He is the grandson of immortal Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Twitter: daniel_jobim
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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 Daniel Jobim:

  • 2 Bossa Nova
  • 2 Brazil
  • 2 Brazilian Jazz
  • 2 MPB
  • 2 Piano
  • 2 Rio de Janeiro
  • 2 Samba
  • 2 Singer-Songwriter
  • Rodrigo Amarante Rio de Janeiro
  • Richard Bona Jazz
  • Stefano Bollani Writer
  • 9Bach Welsh Traditional Music
  • Africania Brazil
  • Fred Hersch Classical Music
  • Alicia Keys Author
  • Sharay Reed Jazz
  • Susana Baca Ethnomusicologist
  • Doug Adair Country
  • Sarah Hanahan Saxophone
  • Donald Harrison Jazz
  • Samba de Nicinha Bahia
  • Missy Mazolli Piano
  • Adriana L. Dutra Film Festival Director
  • Antonio Sánchez Film Scores
  • Luis Paez-Pumar New York City
  • Peter Evans Trumpet
  • Greg Ruby Jazz
  • Melvin Gibbs Composer
  • Magda Giannikou Piano
  • Darren Barrett Reggae
  • Anthony Hamilton Singer-Songwriter
  • Jeff Preiss Director
  • Elio Villafranca Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Alan Williams Architectural Installations
  • Anders Osborne Singer-Songwriter
  • John Patrick Murphy Accordion
  • Marc Johnson New York City
  • Guga Stroeter Candomblé
  • Malin Fezehai Africa
  • Randy Lewis Writer
  • Bodek Janke Contemporary Classical Music
  • Sérgio Mendes MPB
  • Yola R&B
  • Mateus Asato Los Angeles
  • Archie Shepp Pianist
  • Bobby Fouther Educator
  • Gilberto Gil Singer-Songwriter
  • Jon Faddis Jazz
  • Raelis Vasquez Chicago
  • Kimmo Pohjonen Film Scores
  • Marcello Gonçalves Rio de Janeiro
  • Tero Saarinen Choreographer
  • Leonardo Mendes Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Mou Brasil Salvador
  • Jennifer Koh Classical Music
  • Branford Marsalis Jazz
  • Simon Brook Writer
  • Larnell Lewis Jazz, Funk, R&B, Soul
  • Marc Johnson Record Producer
  • Isaias Rabelo Bahia
  • Celsinho Silva Pandeiro Instruction
  • Joatan Nascimento Federal University of Bahia Faculty
  • Yacouba Sissoko Kora
  • Robb Royer Pop
  • Gilad Hekselman Photographer
  • Fidelis Melo Brasil, Brazil
  • Rachael Price Americana
  • Merima Ključo Klezmer
  • Marcus Miller Composer
  • Alyn Shipton Double Bass
  • Renata Flores Quechua
  • Hopkinson Smith Switzerland
  • James Martins Crítico Cultural, Cultural Critic
  • Edu Lobo MPB
  • Béco Dranoff Record Label Owner
  • Eric Coleman Los Angeles
  • Joana Choumali Photographer
  • Issa Malluf Percussion
  • Billy Strings Americana
  • Alfredo Rodriguez Jazz
  • Fapy Lafertin Guitar
  • Arthur Verocai Brazil
  • Alex Conde Flamenco
  • João Camarero Samba
  • Linda Sikhakhane Ropeadope
  • Derrick Adams Sculptor
  • Alphonso Johnson USC Thornton School of Music Faculty
  • Ivan Lins Rio de Janeiro
  • Paul McKenna Irish Traditional Music
  • Mou Brasil Guitarra, Guitar
  • Kiko Freitas Brazilian Jazz
  • Monarco Samba
  • Luedji Luna Singer-Songwriter
  • Kalani Pe'a Hawaiian Music
  • Rick Beato Author
  • Cassandra Osei University of Illinois PhD Candidate
  • Carlinhos 7 Cordas Guitar
  • Denzel Curry Rapper
  • Immanuel Wilkins New York City
  • Mark Stryker Arts Critic
  • King Britt University of San Diego Faculty
  • Mandla Buthelezi Trumpet
  • Jamel Brinkley Writer
  • Bule Bule Chula
  • Warren Wolf Baltimore, Maryland
  • Leo Nocentelli Songwriter
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Soul
  • Stephan Crump Jazz
  • Ênio Bernardes Brasil, Brazil
  • Paul Anthony Smith Picotage
  • Peter Serkin Contemporary Classical Music
  • Errollyn Wallen Contemporary Classical Music
  • Larissa Luz Writer
  • Guilherme Kastrup Record Producer
  • Ben Wolfe Bass
  • Benoit Fader Keita Senegal
  • Jim Hoke Session Musician
  • Oteil Burbridge Jazz
  • Chano Domínguez Brooklyn, NY
  • Kim André Arnesen Classical Music
  • Robby Krieger Rock 'n' Roll
  • Damion Reid R&B
  • Alex Rawls Arts Journalist
  • Philip Sherburne Music Producer
  • Martin Koenig Ethnomusicologist
  • Sean Jones Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute Faculty
  • Mauro Diniz Violão de Sete
  • Grégoire Maret New York City
  • Julian Lloyd Webber London
  • Jamie Dupuis Singer
  • Eli Saslow Journalist
  • Brian Stoltz R&B
  • Aneesa Strings Composer
  • Dan Weiss New York City
  • Alyn Shipton Bass
  • Mingus Big Band Jazz
  • Alex Mesquita Guitar
  • Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah Jazz
  • Carlos Lyra Brazil
  • Gel Barbosa Sanfona
  • Chick Corea Contemporary Classical Music
  • Sean Jones Jazz
  • Jon Faddis Trumpet
  • Miroslav Tadić Multi-Cultural
  • François Zalacain Record Label Owner
  • Arturo Sandoval Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Ariel Reich New York City
  • Marcus Printup Composer
  • Mika Mutti Salvador
  • Donald Harrison Jazz
  • Rolando Herts Mississippi
  • Giovanni Russonello Music Critic
  • David Binney Los Angeles
  • Will Vinson Composer
  • Zebrinha Cineasta Documentarista, Documentary Filmmaker
  • Wynton Marsalis Classical Music
  • Etan Thomas Motivational Speaker
  • Shemekia Copeland R&B
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Bahia
  • Yotam Silberstein New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music Faculty
  • Victor Wooten Singer
  • Mestre Barachinha Caboclo de Lança
  • Jack Talty Concertina
  • Mateus Alves Film Scores
  • Victor Wooten Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Casa da Mãe Samba
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh County Kerry
  • Jason Moran Composer
  • Gian Correa São Paulo
  • Nicholas Payton Trumpet
  • Garth Cartwright New Zealand
  • Luques Curtis Afro-Latin Dance Music
  • Sean Jones Composer
  • Gerald Clayton Composer
  • Brian Lynch Jazz
  • China Moses R&B
  • Alfredo Del-Penho Samba
  • Dezron Douglas Composer
  • Neo Muyanga Writer
  • Chris Thile Composer
  • Stephen Guerra Brazil
  • Gabrielzinho do Irajá Rio de Janeiro
  • Keola Beamer Hawaiian Music
  • Philip Watson Cork
  • Fernando Brandão Brazil
  • Celso Fonseca MPB
  • Awadagin Pratt University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Faculty
  • Tony Allen Africa
  • Julian Lloyd Webber Classical Music
  • Dave Douglas Trumpet
  • Richie Pena Drums
  • Rudy Royston Classical Music
  • Alicia Keys Singer-Songwriter
  • Felipe Guedes Salvador
  • Ben Cox Cinematographer
  • Courtney Pine Composer
  • Rosângela Silvestre Bahia
  • Miles Mosley Television Scores
  • Arifan Junior Rio de Janeiro
  • Joel Guzmán Tex-Mex
  • Gringo Cardia Video Director
  • Nathan Amaral Classical Music
  • Marc Ribot Composer
  • Jeremy Danneman Multi-Cultural
  • Gregory Porter Songwriter
  • Walter Pinheiro Brazilian Jazz
  • Hermeto Pascoal Alagoas
  • Msaki South Africa
  • Victor Wooten Record Label Owner
  • Yacouba Sissoko Griot
  • Rudy Royston Drums
  • Jorge Pita Percussion
  • Questlove Rapper
  • Marc Ribot Free Jazz
  • Tony Austin Film Scores
  • Ben Okri Novelist
  • Jess Gillam Classical Music
  • Andrés Prado Guitar
  • Gabriel Geszti Rio de Janeiro
  • Tom Piazza Writer
  • Walter Pinheiro Saxophone
  • Giba Gonçalves Paris
  • Hilary Hahn Classical Music
  • Yazz Ahmed Composer
  • Luques Curtis Record Label Owner
  • Forrest Hylton Writer
  • Ana Luisa Barral Choro
  • Sean Jones Trumpet
  • Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh Tin Whistle
  • Taylor Eigsti Piano
  • Rosa Cedrón Spain
  • Ivan Neville Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Kiko Loureiro Jazz Fusion
  • Marcus Teixeira Brazil
  • Adriana L. Dutra Director
  • Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin Author
  • Simon Singh Physics
  • Jussara Silveira Singer
  • Robi Botos Composer
  • Richard Galliano Bandoneon
  • Shirazee Africa
  • Janine Jansen Violin
  • Sam Dagher Author
  • Keshav Batish Tabla
  • Martín Sued Argentina
  • Shannon Alvis Choreographer
  • Julian Lloyd Webber Cello
  • Luiz Brasil Bahia
  • Aruán Ortiz Cuba
  • Brooklyn Rider String Quartet
  • Curtis Hasselbring Trombone
  • Marquis Hill Composer
  • David Virelles Cuba
  • Scotty Barnhart Composer
  • King Britt DJ
  • Roberto Fonseca Havana
  • Luciana Souza MPB
  • Geovanna Costa Cantora-Compositora, Singer-Songwriter
  • Swami Jr. São Paulo
  • Mart'nália Samba
  • Robby Krieger Los Angeles
  • Victor Wooten Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Otto Percussion
  • Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram Mississippi
  • Vânia Oliveira Dança Afro
  • João Rabello Classical Guitar
  • Dhafer Youssef ظافر يوسف Composer
  • Fabiana Cozza Writer
  • China Moses Actor
  • Jen Shyu Vocalist
  • Pedro Abib Salvador
  • Johnathan Blake Drums
  • Donnchadh Gough Uilleann Pipes
  • Mono/Poly Los Angeles
  • Stefano Bollani Writer
  • Chico Buarque Singer-Songwriter
  • Ayrson Heráclito Multimedia Artist
  • Courtney Pine Flute
  • Paulo Martelli São Paulo
  • Beth Bahia Cohen Lyras
  • Jon Faddis Jazz
  • Mestrinho Sergipe
  • Dudu Reis Brasil, Brazil
  • Márcio Valverde Singer-Songwriter
  • Alegre Corrêa MPB
  • Jared Sims Clarinet
  • Yoron Israel Jazz
  • Terrace Martin Jazz
  • Renee Rosnes Piano
  • Jessie Montgomery New York City
  • Albin Zak Record Producer
  • Joe Chambers New York City
  • Matt Glaser Composer
  • Raynald Colom Composer
  • Jaleel Shaw Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Nettrice R. Gaskins Writer
  • Yilian Cañizares Classical Music
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba University of Miami Frost School of Music Faculty
  • Alegre Corrêa Composer
  • Dan Weiss Tabla
  • Thundercat Composer
  • Dudu Reis Choro
  • Arturo Sandoval Jazz
  • Zigaboo Modeliste Songwriter
  • Bill Frisell Americana
  • Martin Fondse Contemporary Music
  • Dafnis Prieto Drums
  • Shalom Adonai Brazil
  • Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro Percussion
  • Menelaw Sete Pelourinho
  • Alain Mabanckou Writer
  • Melvin Gibbs Funk, HIp-Hop, Alternative
  • Celsinho Silva Pandeiro
  • Tyler Gordon Artist
  • Magary Lord AFROBIZ Salvador
  • André Vasconcellos Brasil, Brazil
  • Sarah Jarosz Americana
  • Chad Taylor Composer
  • Paul Cebar Milwaukee
  • Jau Brazil
  • Luiz Santos Rio de Janeiro
  • Shez Raja London
  • OVANA Homemade Instruments
  • Brandon Seabrook Avant-Garde Jazz
  • Joe Lovano Saxophone
  • Ron Mader Photographer
  • Tank and the Bangas Hip-Hop
  • Paulinho da Viola Rio de Janeiro
  • 9Bach Multi-Cultural
  • Joshua Abrams Theater Scores
  • Bodek Janke Composer
  • Stanton Moore Funk
  • Masao Fukuda Music
  • David Sánchez Georgia State University School of Music Faculty
  • Henrique Cazes Choro
  • Katuka Africanidades Loja de Arte, Art Shop
  • Siba Veloso Singer
  • Rosa Cedrón Composer
  • Walter Smith III Saxophone
  • Tom Green Guitar
  • Sam Dagher Journalist
  • Michael Olatuja New York City
  • Katuka Africanidades Loja de Roupa, Clothing Store
  • Frank Olinsky Artist
  • Brandon J. Acker Theorbo
  • Kamasi Washington Saxophone
  • Olga Mieleszczuk Poland
  • Masao Fukuda Choro
  • Gino Sorcinelli DJ Culture
  • Tobias Meinhart Composer
  • Zebrinha Coreógrafo, Choreographer
  • Maria Bethânia Bahia
  • João Parahyba Songwriter
  • Victor Wooten Author
  • Maria Drell Chicago, Illinois
  • Onisajé Dramaturga, Playwright
  • Keith Jarrett Composer
  • Samuca do Acordeon Milonga

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