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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.

 

  • Elisa Goritzki
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CURATION

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This is the Universe of

  • Name: Elisa Goritzki
  • City/Place: Salvador, Bahia
  • Country: Brazil

Life & Work

  • Bio: Elisa is a flautist and chorona (player of the musical style called "choro"), musically educated in Brazil and in Stuttgart, Germany.

    She has a PhD in music from the Federal University of Bahia.

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Instagram: elisagoritzki
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/GoritzkiElisa

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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 Elisa Goritzki:

  • 1 Bahia
  • 1 Brazil
  • 1 Choro
  • 1 Flute
  • 1 Salvador
  • Yvette Holzwarth Film, Television Recording
  • Theo Bleckmann New York City
  • Carol Soares Santo Amaro
  • Yotam Silberstein Guitar Instruction
  • Paquito D'Rivera Author
  • Shanequa Gay Installation
  • Nahre Sol Toronto
  • Victor Gama Multimedia Opera
  • Asanda Mqiki Port Elizabeth
  • Mike Compton Mandolin Instruction
  • Nahre Sol Piano
  • Ellie Kurttz London
  • Laura Marling London
  • Nick Douglas Comedy Writer
  • Thundercat Singer
  • Utar Artun Piano
  • Zara McFarlane Jazz
  • Cory Wong Jazz
  • Michael Janisch Record Producer
  • Corey Henry Trombone
  • Elio Villafranca Juilliard Faculty
  • David Binney Saxophone
  • Caroline Shaw Singer
  • Marko Djordjevic Composer
  • Bill Pearis Music Critic
  • João Camarero Samba
  • Natalia Contesse Santiago
  • Mateus Aleluia Filho Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Hugues Mbenda Chef
  • PATRICKTOR4 Global Bass
  • Casa da Mãe Restaurante-Bar, Restaurant-Bar
  • Christopher Seneca Drums
  • Shaun Martin Record Producer
  • Rodrigo Amarante Singer-Songwriter
  • Lorna Simpson Sculptor
  • Tommaso Zillio YouTuber
  • Terell Stafford Temple University Boyer College of Music & Dance Faculty
  • 小野リサ Lisa Ono MPB
  • Tommy Peoples Ireland
  • Terrace Martin Record Producer
  • Michael League Record Producer
  • Joana Choumali Photographer
  • Ana Tijoux Chile
  • Ênio Bernardes Produtor de Discos, Record Producer
  • Restaurante Axego Restaurant
  • Ben Harper Rock
  • Pierre Onassis Samba Reggae
  • Jonathan Richter Classical Guitar
  • Ruven Afanador Colombia
  • Gord Sheard Toronto
  • Shabaka Hutchings Saxophone
  • Deesha Philyaw Essayist
  • Simon Brook Filmmaker
  • Demond Melancon Big Chief
  • Carlos Malta Brazil
  • John Patrick Murphy Author
  • Miroslav Tadić Guitar
  • António Zambujo Singer
  • Tom Oren Composer
  • Kalani Pe'a Hawaiian Music
  • Otto Brazil
  • Richard Bona Africa
  • Intisar Abioto Portland, Oregon
  • Sabine Hossenfelder Physicist
  • Taylor Ashton Banjo
  • Paulo Aragão MPB
  • Zé Luíz Nascimento Paris
  • Rodrigo Caçapa São Paulo
  • Natalia Contesse Santiago
  • Orlando Costa Rio de Janeiro
  • Eric Alexander New York City
  • Toumani Diabaté Mali
  • Tony Kofi Flute
  • Mykia Jovan Jazz
  • Seu Jorge Samba
  • The Umoza Music Project African Music
  • António Zambujo Portugal
  • Ben Williams Jazz
  • Mauro Refosco Brasil, Brazil
  • Richie Barshay Percussion
  • Edil Pacheco Singer
  • Lydia R. Diamond Playwright
  • Darol Anger Bluegrass
  • Fábio Luna Percussão, Percussion
  • Yoron Israel Multi-Cultural
  • Marc Cary Multi-Cultural
  • Merima Ključo Balkan Music
  • Billy O'Shea Science Fiction
  • Shankar Mahadevan Singer
  • Moses Sumney Singer-Songwriter
  • Jonga Cunha Percussion
  • Fábio Peron Brasil, Brazil
  • Gaby Moreno Guitar
  • Chris Thile Mandolin
  • Brigit Katz Toronto
  • Daru Jones Nashville, TN
  • Luques Curtis Jazz
  • Felipe Guedes Guitar
  • Taylor Ashton Vancouver
  • Terri Hinte Jazz Publicist
  • Matt Dievendorf Guitar
  • Frank Negrão Bass
  • Rodrigo Amarante Rio de Janeiro
  • Utar Artun Jazz
  • Robby Krieger Jazz
  • Kevin Hays Piano Instruction
  • Daniel Jobim MPB
  • Mário Pam Percussion
  • Neo Muyanga Contemporary Classical Music
  • Yacouba Sissoko Griot
  • Toninho Horta Guitar
  • Keyon Harrold Jazz
  • Miles Mosley Bass
  • Guto Wirtti Samba
  • Pierre Onassis Bahia
  • Linda Sikhakhane South Africa
  • Peter Evans Piccolo Trumpet
  • Varijashree Venugopal Brazilian Music
  • Chris Dave Hip-Hop
  • Stephen Guerra Guitar
  • Oteil Burbridge Southern Rock
  • Kenny Garrett Saxophone
  • Thiago Espírito Santo MPB
  • Roots Manuva Record Producer
  • Siba Veloso Ciranda
  • Cashmere Cat Hip-Hop
  • João Camarero Brazil
  • Cyro Baptista Percussion
  • Itiberê Zwarg Brazil
  • Guga Stroeter Candomblé
  • Peter Dasent Sydney
  • Paulo Costa Lima Compositor, Composer
  • Eliane Elias Brazil
  • Billy Strings Guitar
  • Giba Gonçalves Salvador
  • Isaias Rabelo Bahia
  • Magary Lord Salvador
  • Derek Sivers Guitar
  • Paulo Costa Lima Salvador
  • Mestre Nelito Samba
  • Fred P Ambient Music
  • Ben Okri Nigeria
  • Jorge Washington Bahia
  • Alegre Corrêa Jazz
  • Capitão Corisco Salvador
  • Negrizu Bahia
  • Adriano Souza Bossa Nova
  • Fidelis Melo Brasil, Brazil
  • Kiko Freitas Samba
  • Nardis Jazz Club Galata
  • Elza Soares Rio de Janeiro
  • José Antonio Escobar Chile
  • Isaias Rabelo Piano
  • Chris Thile New York City
  • Dale Farmer Appalachian Music
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Questlove Record Producer
  • Atlantic Brass Quintet Balkan Music
  • Jovino Santos Neto Record Producer
  • Michael W. Twitty Washington, D.C.
  • Mahsa Vahdat Singer
  • Antonio Sánchez Composer
  • Cashmere Cat Norway
  • Larry McCray Arkansas
  • Romero Lubambo Jazz
  • PATRICKTOR4 Brasil, Brazil
  • André Muato Rio de Janeiro
  • Nguyên Lê Record Producer
  • Miroslav Tadić Classical, Baroque Music
  • Flying Lotus Record Label Owner
  • Lenny Kravitz Record Producer
  • Nate Chinen Radio Director
  • Fernando César Violão de Sete
  • Mauro Refosco Percussão, Percussion
  • Jeff Ballard Jazz
  • Andrew Finn Magill Ropeadope
  • Fábio Luna Brasil, Brazil
  • Parker Ighile Progressive Afro Pop
  • Natan Drubi Bahia
  • G. Thomas Allen Columbia College Chicago Faculty
  • Kiko Freitas Brazilian Jazz
  • Geraldo Azevedo Forró
  • Ronell Johnson Sousaphone
  • Will Holshouser Musette
  • Sharita Towne Portland, Oregon
  • Michael Doucet Mandolin
  • Keyon Harrold Record Producer
  • Nancy Viégas Country
  • Jen Shyu Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Nicolas Krassik Rio de Janeiro
  • Calida Rawles Writer
  • Orquestra Afrosinfônica Música Clássica Contemporânia, Contemporary Classical Music
  • Jason Reynolds Washington, D.C.
  • Joe Newberry Folk & Traditional
  • Philip Glass Film Scores
  • Jonathon Grasse Gamelan
  • Jaques Morelenbaum MPB
  • Shoshana Zuboff Harvard Business School Faculty
  • Guillermo Klein Composer
  • Lucinda Williams Americana
  • Chris McQueen Video Producer
  • Tierra Whack Singer-Songwriter
  • Jonathan Richter Classical Guitar
  • Nana Nkweti University of Alabama Faculty
  • Jeff Tang Composer
  • Serwah Attafuah Multidisciplinary Artist
  • Harvey G. Cohen Writer
  • César Orozco Cuba
  • Magda Giannikou Film Scores
  • Noam Pikelny Banjo Instruction
  • Niwel Tsumbu Singer
  • Hugo Rivas Composer
  • Nabih Bulos Foreign Correspondent
  • Rogério Caetano Choro
  • Eduardo Kobra Muralista, Muralist
  • Susana Baca Folklorist
  • Rogério Caetano Samba
  • Buck Jones Cantor, Singer
  • Dermot Hussey Author
  • Manassés de Souza Composer
  • Congahead Video Producer
  • Lenna Bahule Singer-Songwriter
  • Brad Mehldau Film Scores
  • Arturo Sandoval Cuba
  • Jakub Józef Orliński Poland
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba Havana
  • Derek Sivers Singer-Songwriter
  • Missy Mazolli Classical Music
  • Keshav Batish Santa Cruz, California
  • Yunior Terry NYU Faculty
  • Plínio Fernandes London
  • Sharita Towne Multidisciplinary Artist
  • Frank Beacham Writer
  • Ariel Reich Director
  • Sam Yahel Organ
  • Luques Curtis Record Label Owner
  • César Orozco Composer
  • Greg Osby Record Label Owner
  • Gilsons Bahia
  • Tobias Meinhart Saxophone
  • Osvaldo Golijov Argentina
  • Lula Moreira Percussion
  • Alexia Arthurs Short Stories
  • Marco Pereira Classical Guitar
  • Tobias Meinhart Composer
  • Rachael Price Americana
  • Zachary Richard Poet
  • Nação Zumbi Rap
  • Daniel Jobim Samba
  • Hot Dougie's Brasil
  • Niwel Tsumbu Congo
  • Hamilton de Holanda Rio de Janeiro
  • Alexia Arthurs Iowa Writers' Workshop Faculty
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates Black American Culture & History
  • Paulinho do Reco Brazil
  • Super Chikan Blues
  • John Edward Hasse Author
  • Marc Ribot Punk
  • Peter Evans Composer
  • Rob Garland Guitar
  • Ron Blake Jazz
  • Henrique Araújo Escola de Choro de São Paulo Faculty
  • Marisa Monte Samba
  • Ron Mader Writer
  • Barney McAll New York City
  • Aindrias de Staic Cainteoir Gaeilge
  • Jorge Glem New York City
  • Doug Wamble Composer
  • Ênio Bernardes Diretor Musical, Music Director
  • Gabriel Grossi Brazilian Jazz
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto New York City
  • Gretchen Parlato New York City
  • Donald Vega Nicaragua
  • James Martins Poeta, Poet
  • Sebastian Notini Bateria, Drums
  • Catherine Bent Classical Music
  • Chris Boardman Orchestrator
  • Casa da Mãe Música ao Vivo, Live Music
  • Armen Donelian Piano
  • Dorian Concept Electronic Music
  • Nettrice R. Gaskins STEAM Advocate
  • Lilli Lewis Americana
  • VJ Gabiru Artista Multimídia, Multimedia Artist
  • Ivan Sacerdote Clarinet
  • Yuja Wang New York City
  • Gabriel Policarpo Percussion
  • Tam-Ky France
  • Ivan Huol Drums
  • César Orozco Venezuela
  • Merima Ključo Author
  • David Simon Baltimore, Maryland
  • Jamie Dupuis Composer
  • Richard Bona Composer
  • Adriene Cruz Portland, Oregon
  • Carol Soares Samba
  • Elie Afif Dubai
  • Darius Mans Washington, D.C.
  • Peter Mulvey Guitar
  • Frank Negrão Funk
  • Chick Corea Composer
  • Jeff 'Tain' Watts Actor
  • Maladitso Band Malawi
  • Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram Blues
  • Liz Dany Choreographer
  • Ray Angry Pan-Global Pop
  • Ben Okri Writer
  • Derek Sivers Entrepreneur
  • Elio Villafranca Composer
  • Cristovão Bastos MPB
  • Fred Dantas Ethnomusicologist
  • Aditya Prakash Composer
  • Tambay Obenson Journalist
  • Bob Lanzetti Composer
  • Rowney Scott Música Clássica, Classical Music
  • James Carter Composer
  • Luedji Luna Brazil
  • Dale Farmer Folk & Traditional
  • Danilo Caymmi MPB
  • Mestre Nelito Salvador
  • Nicholas Gill Writer
  • Mark Turner Composer
  • Cinho Damatta MPB
  • Immanuel Wilkins Saxophone
  • Avishai Cohen Jazz
  • Seth Rogovoy Journalist
  • Kiko Souza Ska
  • Urânia Munzanzu Salvador
  • Mark Bingham Record Producer
  • Norah Jones Jazz
  • Loli Molina Argentina
  • Tonynho dos Santos Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Andra Day Actor
  • Paddy Groenland World Music
  • Marcel Camargo Composer
  • Turíbio Santos Guitar
  • Richard Galliano Author
  • Andrew Dickson London
  • Scotty Barnhart Trumpet Instruction
  • Rosa Passos Bahia
  • Ana Luisa Barral Salvador
  • Jon Batiste Melodica
  • Horace Bray Singer-Songwriter
  • Adonis Rose New Orleans
  • Sheryl Bailey Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Carol Soares Bahia
  • Welson Tremura Guitar
  • Tank and the Bangas Hip-Hop
  • Mario Caldato Jr. Brazil
  • Geovanna Costa Brasil, Brazil
  • Marilda Santanna Salvador

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

 

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