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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.

 

  • Domingos Preto
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  • from this node by: Criador acima/Creator above

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Domingos Preto
  • City/Place: Santiago do Iguape, Bahia
  • Country: Brazil

Life & Work

  • Bio: Domingos Preto is a chuleiro (singer/yeller of primordial Afro-Bahian samba) and fisherman living in the town of Santiago do Iguape, Bahia. His biding concern is to not see the samba that he and his ancestors grew up with, die.

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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 Domingos Preto:

  • 9 Bahia
  • 9 Brazil
  • 9 Chula
  • 9 Samba de Roda
  • 9 Santiago do Iguape
  • María Grand Singer
  • Alain Mabanckou UCLA Faculty
  • John Harle Film Scores
  • Cláudio Badega Brasil, Brazil
  • Ray Angry Jazz
  • Kendrick Scott Jazz
  • Nara Couto Cantora, Singer
  • Şener Özmen Poet
  • J. Period Hip-Hop
  • Tom Piazza New Orleans
  • Flora Purim Guitar
  • Ravi Coltrane Record Producer
  • Berta Rojas Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Phakama Mbonambi Publisher
  • Jonathan Scales Ropeadope
  • Charles Munka Drawings
  • Ajurinã Zwarg Drums
  • Dan Moretti Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Bob Bernotas Jazz Historian
  • Mike Compton Mandolin Instruction
  • Catherine Bent Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Mauro Refosco Compositor de Shows da Moda, Fashion Show Music
  • Otto Brazil
  • Martyn House
  • PATRICKTOR4 Global Bass
  • Lívia Mattos Singer-Songwriter
  • Bodek Janke Drums
  • Donny McCaslin Jazz
  • Jakub Józef Orliński Poland
  • Trilok Gurtu Multi-Cultural
  • Amit Chatterjee Indian Classical Music
  • Jussara Silveira Salvador
  • Alan Brain Film, Television Director
  • André Becker Brasil, Brazil
  • Nguyên Lê Guitar
  • Mino Cinélu Composer
  • David Kirby Journalist
  • Anthony Coleman Avant-Garde Jazz
  • Matt Dievendorf Jazz
  • Abel Selaocoe Johannesburg
  • Kiya Tabassian كيا طبسيان Film Scores
  • Yilian Cañizares Cuba
  • Henrique Cazes Banjo
  • Pharoah Sanders Jazz
  • Aneesa Strings Jazz
  • Joey Baron New York City
  • Cara Stacey Radio Presenter
  • Jonathan Scales Jazz Fusion
  • Aubrey Johnson Jazz
  • Will Vinson Composer
  • Celso Fonseca Guitar
  • Andrew Gilbert Journalist
  • Elie Afif Beirut
  • Anders Osborne New Orleans
  • Ravi Coltrane Jazz
  • David Kirby Novelist
  • Dwayne Dopsie Zydeco
  • John McLaughlin Jazz Fusion
  • Laura Marling London
  • Nick Douglas Writer
  • Nelson Ayres Brazilian Jazz
  • Jaimie Branch Trumpet
  • Daniel Jobim MPB
  • Joan Chamorro Saxophone
  • Alain Mabanckou UCLA Faculty
  • Adanya Dunn Canada
  • Stormzy UK
  • Clint Smith Black American Culture & History
  • Dee Spencer Composer
  • Tom Oren Tel Aviv
  • Jean Rondeau Paris
  • VJ Gabiru Artista Multimídia, Multimedia Artist
  • The Assad Brothers Classical Guitar
  • Bill Frisell Jazz
  • J. Velloso MPB
  • Concha Buika Singer-Songwriter
  • Jon Batiste Classical Music
  • Jim Lauderdale Bluegrass
  • Arto Lindsay New York City
  • Jess Gillam London
  • David Binney Saxophone Lessons
  • Fidelis Melo Bahia
  • Russell Malone Jazz
  • Kim Hill Songwriter
  • Shannon Sims Writer
  • Kenny Barron Piano
  • Arthur L.A. Buckner Drum Instruction
  • Dan Weiss New York City
  • Roberto Mendes Santo Amaro
  • Babau Santana Brasil, Brazil
  • Chris Thile Bluegrass
  • André Becker Música Clássica, Classical Music
  • Luciano Salvador Bahia Record Producer
  • Marc Cary Piano
  • Karla Vasquez Los Angeles
  • The Weeknd Actor
  • Musa Okwonga Poet
  • Margareth Menezes Bahia
  • Jamel Brinkley Iowa Writers' Workshop Faculty
  • Chris Dave R&B
  • Nelson Ayres Brazil
  • Meshell Ndegeocello Bass
  • Justin Kauflin Jazz
  • Tank and the Bangas New Orleans
  • Luciano Salvador Bahia Brazil
  • Simone Sou Percussion
  • Yilian Cañizares Jazz
  • Armen Donelian Jazz
  • Xenia França Singer-Songwriter
  • Issa Malluf Riq
  • Soweto Kinch Birmingham, UK
  • Roy Ayers Jazz, Funk, R&B, Soul, Hip-Hop
  • Craig Ross Songwriter
  • Michael Olatuja New York City
  • Joe Newberry Banjo Instruction
  • James Shapiro Writer
  • Casa PretaHub Cachoeira Brasil, Brazil
  • João do Boi Chula
  • Meddy Gerville Jazz
  • Rogê Samba
  • Martin Koenig Folk & Traditional
  • Joanna Majoko Toronto
  • Jorge Ben Singer-Songwriter
  • 小野リサ Lisa Ono Brazil
  • John Patitucci Composer
  • Yamandu Costa Violão de Sete
  • Ferenc Nemeth New York City
  • John Edward Hasse Piano
  • Yasushi Nakamura Bass
  • Damion Reid R&B
  • Paulão 7 Cordas Violão de Sete
  • Helado Negro Singer-Songwriter
  • Dorian Concept Record Producer
  • Francisco Mela Cuba
  • Ana Luisa Barral Mandolin
  • Jared Sims West Virginia University Faculty
  • Toumani Diabaté Multi-Cultural
  • Jonga Cunha Record Producer
  • Arifan Junior Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Carlos Lyra Singer-Songwriter
  • Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah Mardi Gras Indian
  • Art Rosenbaum Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Mario Caldato Jr. Keyboards
  • Imanuel Marcus Journalist
  • James Gadson Soul
  • Jupiter Bokondji Congo
  • Bule Bule Forró
  • Robert Randolph Soul
  • Rayendra Sunito Indonesia
  • Avner Dorman Gettysburg College Faculty
  • Darren Barrett Trumpet
  • Lazzo Matumbi Samba
  • Lucian Ban Piano
  • Alita Moses Neo Soul
  • Kiko Loureiro Rio de Janeiro
  • Bob Reynolds Saxophone Instruction
  • Nancy Ruth Multi-Cultural
  • Adanya Dunn Toronto
  • Sarah Jarosz Americana
  • Edgar Meyer Curtis Institute of Music Faculty
  • Henrique Cazes Rio de Janeiro
  • Parker Ighile NIgeria
  • Colm Tóibín Playwright
  • Ranky Tanky Gullah Geechee
  • Justin Stanton Multi-Cultural
  • Beth Bahia Cohen Middle Eastern Music
  • Leci Brandão Samba
  • Samba de Nicinha Santo Amaro
  • Giveton Gelin Bahamas
  • Rebeca Omordia Piano
  • Tony Trischka Country
  • Jeffrey Boakye Journalist
  • Ana Luisa Barral Composer
  • Donald Harrison New Orleans
  • Jorge Glem Mandolin
  • Ann Hallenberg Opera Singer
  • Cinho Damatta Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Corey Ledet Zydeco
  • Mateus Aleluia Samba
  • Miho Hazama New York City
  • Giveton Gelin Jazz
  • Oded Lev-Ari Piano
  • Fábio Zanon Author
  • Steve Bailey Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Alain Pérez Cuba
  • João Luiz Composer
  • Joe Chambers Drums
  • Howard Levy Keyboards
  • Ricky (Dirty Red) Gordon Jazz
  • Ari Hoenig Drums
  • Aloísio Menezes Samba
  • Joatan Nascimento Brazil
  • Aindrias de Staic Television Presenter
  • Casa da Mãe Choro
  • Quatuor Ebène Contemporary Classical Music
  • Django Bates Composer
  • Goran Krivokapić Serbia
  • James Martin Funk
  • Paulinho do Reco Candomblé
  • Paulo Costa Lima Salvador
  • Peter Evans Experimental Music
  • Natan Drubi Choro
  • Curtis Hasselbring Guitar
  • Paul McKenna Glasgow
  • Marcus Printup Composer
  • Keshav Batish Composer
  • Adanya Dunn Soprano
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Brazil
  • Negrizu Bahia
  • The Weeknd Record Producer
  • Andrew Huang Video Producer
  • Karsh Kale कर्ष काळे Multi-Cultural
  • Jorge Aragão Samba
  • McIntosh County Shouters Gullah Geechee
  • Miles Okazaki Composer
  • Plamen Karadonev Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Forrest Hylton Writer
  • Yvette Holzwarth Film, Television Recording
  • Snigdha Poonam Writer
  • Siphiwe Mhlambi Jazz Photographer
  • MonoNeon Funk
  • Billy O'Shea Denmark
  • Jussara Silveira Brazil
  • Jacám Manricks Composer
  • Gabi Guedes Salvador
  • Raelis Vasquez Sculptor
  • João Teoria Jazz Afro-Baiano, Afro-Bahian Jazz
  • Azi Schwartz החזן עזי שוורץ Jewish Liturgical Music
  • Alyn Shipton Music Critic
  • Charles Munka Hong Kong
  • Courtney Pine Keyboards
  • James Brandon Lewis Poet
  • Kenny Garrett Flute
  • D.D. Jackson Opera
  • VJ Gabiru Videógrafo, Videographer
  • Dadi Carvalho Singer-Songwriter
  • Giveton Gelin New York City
  • Conrad Herwig Trombone
  • Gregory Hutchinson Jazz
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Forró
  • Nara Couto Diretora, Director
  • Oscar Bolão Samba
  • Tia Fuller Jazz
  • Owen Williams Marketer
  • Celso de Almeida MPB
  • Billy O'Shea Novelist
  • Leon Parker Drums
  • Brady Haran Filmmaker
  • Carwyn Ellis Brazil
  • André Becker Brasil, Brazil
  • Keita Ogawa Drums
  • Jimmy Dludlu Highlife
  • Leonardo Mendes Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Mario Caldato Jr. Brazil
  • James Sullivan Music Critic
  • Gabriel Policarpo Repique
  • Brian Lynch Latin Jazz
  • Mickalene Thomas Photographer
  • Linda Sikhakhane Johannesburg
  • Vivien Schweitzer Opera
  • Marcos Portinari Brasil, Brazil
  • Anouar Brahem Arabic Music
  • Áurea Martins MPB
  • Andrew Gilbert Roots Music
  • Mariana Zwarg Brazil
  • Peter Erskine USC Thornton School of Music Faculty
  • John Edward Hasse Ragtime
  • Roy Nathanson Film Scores
  • Steve McKeever Entertainment Lawyer
  • Oswaldinho do Acordeon Composer
  • Jaques Morelenbaum Classical Music
  • Matt Ulery Record Label Owner
  • Dhafer Youssef ظافر يوسف Multi-Cultural
  • MARO Singer-Songwriter
  • Raymundo Sodré Samba
  • Gabriel Geszti Acordeon, Accordion
  • Dale Barlow Flute
  • Sam Eastmond Record Producer
  • Guilherme Kastrup Brazil
  • Wilson Simoninha Brazil
  • Eric Alexander New York City
  • Hot Dougie's Bahia
  • Nabih Bulos Classical Music
  • Elio Villafranca Cuba
  • The Weeknd Singer-Songwriter
  • Tarus Mateen Bass
  • Oded Lev-Ari Arranger
  • Bobby Sanabria Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Yacouba Sissoko New York City
  • Jean-Paul Bourelly Guitar
  • Ben Okri London
  • Anoushka Shankar Film Scores
  • Biréli Lagrène Gypsy Jazz
  • Jess Gillam Classical Music
  • Yoruba Andabo Rumba
  • Nic Hard DJ
  • Alegre Corrêa Berimbau
  • Bruce Williams Saxophone
  • James Gadson Blues
  • Peter Erskine Record Producer
  • Renato Braz MPB
  • Morgan Page EDM
  • Manassés de Souza Viola de Doze
  • Marília Sodré Bahia
  • Ry Cooder Multi-Cultural
  • Luciana Souza Brazil
  • Mahsa Vahdat Singer
  • Angelique Kidjo New York City
  • João Parahyba Brazil
  • Lakecia Benjamin Composer
  • Nate Chinen Music Critic
  • Keola Beamer Slack Key Guitar
  • David Sedaris Writer
  • Xenia França Brazil
  • Brian Jackson Keyboards
  • Magary Lord Semba
  • Aubrey Johnson Queens College Faculty
  • Tony Kofi Composer
  • Hank Roberts Avant-Garde, Folk, Classical
  • Georgia Anne Muldrow Neo-Soul
  • Zigaboo Modeliste Drums
  • Lakecia Benjamin Ropeadope
  • Natan Drubi São Paulo
  • André Muato Singer-Songwriter
  • Otmaro Ruiz Venezuela
  • Milton Nascimento Brazil
  • Arto Tunçboyacıyan Armenian Folk Music
  • Nelson Sargento Singer-Songwriter
  • Yilian Cañizares Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Joana Choumali Abidjan
  • Alan Williams Architectural Installations
  • Capitão Corisco Forró
  • Gord Sheard Multi-Cultural
  • Perumal Murugan Novelist
  • David Chesky Composer
  • Júlio Caldas Viola Caipira
  • Johnny Vidacovich Funk
  • Scott Yanow Writer
  • Susheela Raman London
  • TaRon Lockett Singer-Songwriter
  • Sam Harris Composer
  • Mariana Zwarg Universal Music
  • Martin Fondse Amsterdam
  • Steve Earle Singer-Songwriter
  • Jim Hoke Record Producer
  • Aderbal Duarte Bahia
  • Chris Boardman Composer
  • Forrest Hylton Ethnohistorian: Latin America & the Caribbean
  • Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro Percussion
  • Tab Benoit Louisiana

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

 

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