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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.

 

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  • Name: Dave Smith
  • City/Place: Frome, Somerset
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Hometown: Norwich

Life & Work

  • Bio: Dave Smith is best known for his work with Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters, Fofoulah, and Afro-Blues group Juju. He has recorded drums for Rachid Taha, Bassekou Kouyate and Robert Plant and has performed with Patty Griffin, Donny McCaslin, Chrisse Hynde and Eddie Henderson. As co-founder of the Loop Collective, Dave is part of some of the most adventurous musical projects in the UK, which include Strobes, Cloudmakers Trio, Outhouse, MA and Splice. As co-leader of Outhouse Ruhabi and Fofoulah, he is the man behind the most fruitful collision of West African drum music and European jazz yet to surface.

    Born in Norwich, Dave began playing drums at the age of nine and was immersed in musical groups playing in orchestras, big bands, and jazz combos. At sixteen Dave was awarded a scholarship to become a specialist musician at Wells Cathedral School where he attended 1997 to 1999. He then went on to study Jazz Performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he graduated in 2003.

    Since graduating, Dave has been heavily involved in the London and UK jazz scene playing with bands such as Arnie Somogyi’s Ambulance, Pete King Quartet, Paul Booth Quintet, the Sam Crowe Group and Mark Lockheart’s ‘In Deep’ as well as performing with artists such as Donny McCaslin, Jeanne Added, Hilmar Jensson, Eddie Henderson, Ingrid Jenson, Lukas Kranzilbinder and Ralph Alessi.

    Through the shared desire to write and perform original and improvised music with other musicians within London’s creative community, Dave co-founded the Loop Collective in 2005. The ethos of the collective is to create more exposure for its members through performance opportunities, exchanges with other music collectives, and its own record label, Loop Records. Loop projects include Splice, MA, Dan Nicholls’ Mirror, Strobes, Cloudmakers Trio, Outhouse, Ouhouse Ruhabi and Jim Hart’s Gemini.

    Dave began studying Sabar drumming with Wolof musicians in West Africa and the UK after an inspirational trip to The Gambia in 2002. Whilst in The Gambia Dave assisted on ECCO courses (Education through Communication and Culture Organisation) for Guildhall School students and led school workshops with ECCO and the Child Protection Alliance. Immersing himself in these complex West African rhythms has inspired Dave throughout his career. Supported by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation, and the BBC Performing Arts Fund, Dave led a project in The Gambia with Outhouse and five Sabar percussionists in 2007. The group Outhouse Ruhabi was formed and with the continued support of these funding bodies the group was able to record an album and tour in the UK in 2008, 2009, and 2011. Highlights included performances at Cheltenham Jazz Festival in 2008, Festival Africolor in Paris in 2009 and the London Jazz Festival in 2011.

    Fofoulah was formed by Dave and Outhouse Ruhabi members Johnny Brierley, Kaw Secka, and Tom Challenger in 2011. With the addition of Phil Stevenson on guitar and Biram Seck on vocals the group experimented with writing grooves and music based on Sabar drumming, similar to Ruhabi, which lent more on dance floor influences and song form structures and led to the EP Bene Bop (released in 2013 on Loop Records). Fofoulah followed this up in 2014 with their debut self titled album on Glitterbeat Records featuring new front man Batch Gueye and guest vocalists Ghostpoet, Iness Mezel, and Juldeh Camara.

    Dave was invited to join Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara in 2010 for a tour in Japan. They went on to record the following year at Real World Studios with Beak bassist Billy Fuller. From these sessions the album In Trance (Real World 2011) was released and the band Juju was formed. Juju toured Europe throughout 2011 and 2012, performed at the BT River of Music event alongside an array of African artists and were the rhythm section for Rachid Taha’s album Zoom! as well as Iness Mezel’s album Trance. Juju were taken on by Robert Plant in July 2012 to be part of his new band Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters. Dave performed for 6 years with Robert Plant, touring the world twice over and recording two albums ‘lullaby and the… Ceaseless Roar’ in 2014 and ‘Carry Fire’ in 2017, both on the Nonesuch label. Performance highlights from these tours include playing at Glastonbury Festival , Austin City Limits, the Sydney Opera House, Lollapalooza in South America, The Royal Albert Hall and Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. They also appeared on The One Show, Live with Jools Holland, The Colbert Report, The Late Late Show with James Corden and The Tonight Show featuring Jimmy Fallon. Dave left the band at the end of the summer in 2018 and at that point was able to put his energy towards Fofoulah and his other creative projects. Fofoulah’s second album Daega Rek was released that November on Glitterbeat Records and set a new tone for the band’s live performances with intense spoken word and electronics. Fofoulah continue to perform, write and record and in October 2019 they were invited to perform a showcase at Womex.

    Other current bands include a new collaboration with Irish vocalist Lauren Kinsella which features Tom Challenger, a West Country based quartet with Sam Crockatt, Dan Moore and Riaan Vosloo, Nick Malcolm’s Up Front featuring Jason Yard, Moss Freed’s Union Division, an improv duo with George Crowley and a quartet with Mark Lockheart featuring Elliot Galvin and Tom Herbert.

    Dave is also teaching Sabar drumming workshops, rhythm classes, and one-to-one drum kit privately, in schools and as a visiting teacher in universities and music colleges.

    Dave’s endorsements include Istanbul Agop, Ludwig Drums, Remo Percussion, Wincent Sticks, Protection Racket and Roland Drums & Percussion.

Contact Information

  • Contact by Webpage: http://www.davesmithdrums.live/contact
  • Management/Booking: UK & EUROPE BOOKING: David Flower - [email protected]
    CANADA/USA BOOKING: Michael Owen - [email protected]
    MEDIA: Ilka Schlockermann - [email protected]
    BAND: Dave Smith - [email protected]
    LABEL: Chris Eckman - [email protected]

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  • ▶ Website: http://www.davesmithdrums.live

My Instruction

  • Instruction: http://www.davesmithdrums.com/rhythm

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