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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.

 

  • Diosmar Filho
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Criador acima/Creator above

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Diosmar Filho
  • City/Place: Rio de Janeiro
  • Country: Brazil
  • Hometown: Salvador, Bahia

Life & Work

  • Bio: Documentary filmmaker and geographer.

    Geógrafo, Mestre em Geografia pela Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA). Doctorando pela Universidade Federal Fluminense.

Contact Information

  • Email: [email protected]

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Instagram: diosmarfilho
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/Et%C3%A2Mundo

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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 Diosmar Filho:

  • 2 Bahia
  • 2 Brasil, Brazil
  • 2 Cineasta Documentarista, Documentary Filmmaker
  • 2 Escritor, Writer
  • 2 Geógrafo, Geographer
  • 2 Rio de Janeiro
  • 2 Salvador
  • Şener Özmen Multimedia Art
  • Simon Brook Writer
  • Judith Hill R&B
  • Betsayda Machado Venezuela
  • Ajeum da Diáspora Afro-Bahian Cuisine
  • Yoko Miwa Composer
  • Angel Deradoorian Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Fred Hersch Composer
  • Jericho Brown Poet
  • Mauro Refosco Compositor de Teatro, Theater Scores
  • Sarah Jarosz Americana
  • Jorge Aragão Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Marilda Santanna Samba
  • Carlos Malta Pífano
  • Eric Bogle Folk & Traditional
  • Jakub Knera Radio Presenter
  • Sérgio Pererê MPB
  • James Brandon Lewis New York City
  • Dan Weiss Drumming Instruction
  • Matthew F Fisher Collaborative Artist
  • Giveton Gelin New York City
  • Berkun Oya Actor
  • Carwyn Ellis Alternative Indie
  • João Bosco MPB
  • Zara McFarlane Jazz
  • David Greely Songwriter
  • Damion Reid Hip-Hop
  • Eddie Palmieri New York City
  • Liron Meyuhas Multi-Cultural
  • Mateus Aleluia Filho Brasil, Brazil
  • Rema Namakula Kampala
  • Calida Rawles Los Angeles
  • Lula Moreira Composer
  • Scott Kettner Second Line
  • Ferenc Nemeth Composer
  • Brian Stoltz Funk
  • Giorgi Mikadze გიორგი მიქაძე Georgian Folk Music
  • Swizz Beatz Art Collector
  • Taylor Ashton Drawings
  • Katuka Africanidades Livraria, Bookshop
  • Maciel Salú Composer
  • Tito Jackson Singer-Songwriter
  • Towa Tei テイ・トウワ Japan
  • David Hepworth Publishing Industry Analyst
  • John Patrick Murphy Brazilian Music
  • Curly Strings Folk & Traditional
  • Mono/Poly Music Producer
  • Emmet Cohen New York City
  • Imani Winds Classical Music
  • Zebrinha Candomblé
  • Di Freitas Ceará
  • Trilok Gurtu Multi-Cultural
  • Curtis Hasselbring Composer
  • Derek Sivers Singer-Songwriter
  • Antônio Queiroz Repente
  • Ivan Sacerdote Bahia
  • Garvia Bailey Jamaica
  • Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah Multi-Cultural
  • Menelaw Sete Pelourinho
  • Paulinho do Reco Percussion
  • Guga Stroeter Bandleader
  • Márcio Valverde Samba de Roda
  • David Virelles Piano
  • Dan Trueman Violin
  • Mike Compton Country Blues
  • Michael Cuscuna Record Label Owner
  • Nicole Mitchell University of Pittsburgh Faculty
  • Virgínia Rodrigues Brazil
  • Mateus Alves Recife
  • Frank Beacham Film, Television Producer
  • Warren Wolf Jazz
  • Felipe Guedes Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Catherine Bent Boston
  • Bernardo Aguiar Pandeiro Instruction
  • Gabriel Geszti Acordeon, Accordion
  • Luciana Souza Songwriter
  • Rachael Price Brooklyn, NY
  • Andrew Finn Magill Forró
  • Carwyn Ellis Experimental Music
  • Toby Gough Musical Theater
  • Terell Stafford Composer
  • Myron Walden Flute
  • Kiya Tabassian كيا طبسيان Multi-Cultural
  • Fred Dantas Ethnomusicologist
  • Oded Lev-Ari New York City
  • Luizinho Assis Brasil, Brazil
  • Dadi Carvalho MPB
  • J. Cunha Bahia
  • Yamandu Costa Samba
  • Caridad De La Luz Poet
  • Dale Farmer Film Director
  • Jeff Preiss Cinematographer
  • Garth Cartwright London
  • David Braid Lute
  • Daphne A. Brooks Liner Notes
  • Zakir Hussain Percussion
  • Victor Gama Luanda
  • Juçara Marçal Brazil
  • Jovino Santos Neto Piano
  • Beth Bahia Cohen Rababa
  • Sam Yahel Organ
  • Carlos Blanco Compositor, Composer
  • Wouter Kellerman Alto Flute
  • As Ganhadeiras de Itapuã Salvador
  • Stephen Kurczy The King's College Faculty
  • Cristiano Nogueira Brazil Specialist
  • Anna Webber Flute
  • Paulo Paulelli Bass
  • Terri Lyne Carrington Jazz
  • Eric Alexander Saxophone Instruction
  • Jaques Morelenbaum Film Scores
  • Dorian Concept Keyboards
  • Paul McKenna Singer-Songwriter
  • Thana Alexa Jazz
  • Marcel Powell Rio de Janeiro
  • Steve Cropper Songwriter
  • Justin Stanton Brooklyn, NY
  • Duncan Chisholm Traditional Scottish Music
  • Michael Cleveland Fiddle
  • André Vasconcellos Produtor Musical, Music Producer
  • Joshua Abrams Bass
  • Philip Watson Ireland
  • Anoushka Shankar Tanpura
  • Duane Benjamin Orchestrator
  • Dave Jordan Singer-Songwriter
  • Stormzy Grime
  • Martyn Record Producer
  • Al Kooper Singer-Songwriter
  • Antonio Sánchez Film Scores
  • Jon Otis Drums
  • Alex Mesquita Composer
  • Lizz Wright Chicago, Illinois
  • Mestre Nenel Bahia
  • Andrés Prado Guitar
  • João Bosco Rio de Janeiro
  • Louis Marks Music Producer
  • Negra Jhô African Hairstyles
  • Olga Mieleszczuk Warsaw
  • Renell Medrano Photographer
  • Charlie Bolden New Orleans
  • Lynn Nottage Columbia University Faculty
  • Cláudio Jorge Brazil
  • Gabriel Geszti Jazz Brasileiro, Brazilian Jazz
  • Kiko Horta Composer
  • Ben Wendel Brooklyn, NY
  • Alana Gabriela Cantora, Singer
  • Jurandir Santana Viola Caipira
  • Evgeny Kissin Classical Music
  • Hugo Linns Pernambuco
  • Ronaldo do Bandolim Choro
  • Alicia Keys Actor
  • Johnathan Blake Jazz
  • Daedelus Hip-Hop
  • Zé Katimba Samba
  • Oscar Bolão MPB
  • Yosvany Terry New York City
  • Carlos Malta Rio de Janeiro
  • Orrin Evans Jazz
  • Carwyn Ellis Singer-Songwriter
  • Andrew Finn Magill Violin
  • John Patitucci Bass
  • Bob Bernotas Writer
  • Oscar Bolão Rio de Janeiro
  • Raynald Colom Barcelona
  • Camille Thurman Bass Clarinet
  • Bob Mintzer Jazz
  • Sophia Deboick Writer
  • Irmandade da Boa Morte Cachoeira
  • Geraldo Azevedo Singer-Songwriter
  • Alphonso Johnson USC Thornton School of Music Faculty
  • Sunna Gunnlaugs Jazz
  • Asanda Mqiki Afro-Soul
  • Keita Ogawa Pandeiro
  • Ivan Huol Drums
  • Sahba Aminikia San Francisco
  • Askia Davis Sr. Educational Consultant
  • Shankar Mahadevan Playback Singer
  • Parker Ighile NIgeria
  • Lucio Yanel Brazil
  • Ben Harper Singer-Songwriter
  • Johnny Lorenz Writer
  • Yunior Terry Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Lynn Nottage Playwright
  • Glória Bomfim Brazil
  • Eli Degibri אלי דג'יברי Israel
  • Bruce Molsky Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Ben Hazleton Indian Classical Music
  • Bill Callahan Austin, Texas
  • Shannon Sims Rio de Janeiro
  • Kenyon Dixon Singer-Songwriter
  • Johnny Vidacovich New Orleans
  • Fantastic Negrito Oakland, California
  • Gary Clark Jr. Blues
  • Jakub Józef Orliński Hip-Hop
  • Ricardo Bacelar Compositor, Composer
  • César Camargo Mariano Record Producer
  • H.L. Thompson Artist Development
  • Frank Negrão Blues
  • Harold López-Nussa Piano
  • Cinho Damatta Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Paquito D'Rivera Havana
  • Marcus Gilmore Drums
  • Logan Richardson Saxophone
  • Varijashree Venugopal Carnatic Music
  • Joanna Majoko Germany
  • Alexandre Vieira Contrabaixo, Double Bass
  • John Zorn Film Scores
  • Gab Ferruz Cantora-Compositora, Singer-Songwriter
  • Lazzo Matumbi Samba
  • Tommy Peoples Fiddle
  • Congahead Jazz
  • Pierre Onassis Bahia
  • Sarz Hip-Hop
  • Zara McFarlane Vocal Coach
  • Alana Gabriela Salvador
  • Anne Gisleson Writer
  • Vanessa Moreno Guitar
  • Mono/Poly Music Producer
  • Tom Oren Piano
  • Liron Meyuhas Multi-Cultural
  • Gavin Marwick Scotland
  • Courtney Pine London
  • Jon Batiste Piano
  • Martín Sued Composer
  • Tal Wilkenfeld Jazz
  • Julien Libeer Brussels
  • Linda May Han Oh New York City
  • Nicholas Daniel England
  • J. Velloso MPB
  • Brandon Coleman Keyboards
  • Joe Chambers Jazz
  • Marcos Sacramento Samba
  • Alessandro Penezzi Composer
  • Johnny Lorenz Translator
  • Barney McAll Composer
  • Tom Oren Jazz
  • Tab Benoit Record Label Owner
  • Jason Moran Piano
  • Lenine Record Producer
  • Adriano Giffoni MPB
  • Art Rosenbaum Illustrator
  • Stormzy Rapper
  • Renata Flores Rapper
  • Cara Stacey Johannesburg
  • Colson Whitehead Literary Critic
  • Paulo Aragão Samba
  • Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin Uilleann Pipes
  • David Greely Louisiana
  • Chico Buarque Singer-Songwriter
  • Irma Thomas New Orleans
  • Dezron Douglas New York City
  • Garvia Bailey Writer
  • Carl Joe Williams New Orleans
  • Dave Jordan New Orleans
  • Zeca Pagodinho Brazil
  • Michael Olatuja Nigeria
  • Papa Mali Reggae
  • Guinha Ramires Guitar
  • Nublu Multi-Cultural
  • Fernando Brandão Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Issa Malluf Arabic Percussion
  • Renata Flores Quechua
  • Jazzmeia Horn Jazz
  • Horácio Reis Brasil, Brazil
  • Jason Parham Editor
  • Ranky Tanky Gullah Geechee
  • Nate Chinen Radio Director
  • Thiago Espírito Santo MPB
  • Nomcebo Zikode House Music
  • Jimmy Duck Holmes Guitar
  • Guto Wirtti Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Lionel Loueke Jazz
  • Molly Tuttle Banjo
  • Simone Sou Brazil
  • Joan Chamorro Spain
  • Sam Eastmond Jazz, Klezmer, Jewish, World, Downtown
  • Mark Lettieri Guitar
  • Tony Trischka Bluegrass
  • Atlantic Brass Quintet Jazz
  • Jean-Paul Bourelly Multi-Cultural
  • Giovanni Russonello Electoral Politics
  • Orrin Evans Neo Soul, Acid Jazz
  • Edmar Colón Jazz
  • Stephen Kurczy Writer
  • Jaques Morelenbaum Brazilian Jazz
  • Marc-André Hamelin Piano
  • Lula Moreira Composer
  • Marilda Santanna Brasil, Brazil
  • Jimmy Cliff Jamaica
  • Nana Nkweti Writer
  • Brian Blade Jazz
  • Plinio Oyò Bahia
  • Jane Ira Bloom Contemporary Classical Music
  • Román Díaz Havana
  • Tommaso Zillio Author
  • Hot Dougie's Bahia
  • Daniil Trifonov Composer
  • McClenney Record Producer
  • Leela James Singer-Songwriter
  • Fernando Brandão Brazil
  • Theo Bleckmann New York City
  • Fidelis Melo Bahia
  • Casey Benjamin Funk
  • Amilton Godoy Brazil
  • Matt Dievendorf Washington, D.C.
  • Tomo Fujita Author
  • Benjamin Grosvenor London
  • Tiganá Santana Trilhas Sonoras, Film Scores
  • Karsh Kale कर्ष काळे EDM
  • Ned Sublette Guitar
  • Abel Selaocoe Singer
  • Nancy Viégas Fotógrafa, Photographer
  • John Santos Puerto Rico
  • Edil Pacheco Record Producer
  • Jen Shyu Composer
  • Brandon Wilner Writer
  • João Teoria Ska
  • Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram Mississippi
  • Gui Duvignau Multi-Cultural
  • Milton Nascimento Brazil
  • Bill Pearis Editor
  • Mykia Jovan Soul
  • Las Cafeteras Son Jarocho
  • Zachary Richard Zydeco
  • David Ngwerume Africa
  • Maria Rita Brazil
  • Gui Duvignau Bass
  • Makaya McCraven Jazz
  • Carol Soares Santo Amaro
  • Ben Wolfe New York City
  • Francisco Mela Percussion
  • Guto Wirtti Bass
  • Sombrinha Singer-Songwriter
  • Missy Mazolli Opera
  • Camille Thurman Flute
  • Nelson Ayres Jazz
  • Roy Ayers Film Scores
  • Omari Jazz Composer
  • Tessa Hadley Non-Fiction
  • Adriene Cruz Textile Artist
  • Sameer Gupta Jazz
  • James Grime Mathematics
  • Natalia Contesse Chilean Folk Music
  • Pretinho da Serrinha Cavaquinho
  • Robin Eubanks Trombone
  • Danilo Caymmi Television Scores
  • Caterina Lichtenberg Mandolin
  • ANNA Berlin
  • Forrest Hylton Brazil
  • Rogê MPB

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

 

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