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Name:
Érico Moreira
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City/Place:
Barcelona
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Country:
Spain
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Hometown:
Paraty, Rio de Janeiro
Life
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Bio:
Érico Moreira provém de uma família de músicos e artistas, imerso no mundo da música desde tenra idade. Aos 10 anos, já acompanhava seu pai, também músico e compositor em Paraty-RJ.
Aos 12 anos, mudou-se para São Paulo, onde começou como assistente de estúdio na renomada produtora Xuxa Levy. Aos 17 anos, passou a se dedicar principalmente à produção de trilhas sonoras para publicidade, televisão e cinema, enquanto trabalhava como engenheiro de som.
Aos 24 anos, gravou seu primeiro álbum solo, "Pindorama", onde tocou todos os instrumentos e cuidou da gravação e mixagem. Em 2007, mudou-se para Barcelona e uniu-se à cantora local Sara Pi, formando um projeto que durou 11 anos, resultando em 3 álbuns, dois dos quais lançados pela Sony Music Espanha. Em 2022, com mais de 100 músicas autorais em seu repertório, voltou ao projeto solo e lançou "Dentro da Matrix", seu segundo álbum de estúdio.
É raro encontrar artistas que dominem múltiplas habilidades como músico, compositor, intérprete, produtor, engenheiro de gravação e mixagem, mas Érico Moreira é um desses raros talentos. Em seu último álbum, "Dentro da Matrix", ele assumiu todas essas responsabilidades. O álbum, produzido de forma independente, foi indicado ao Grammy Latino 2022 na categoria de Melhor Álbum de Engenharia de Gravação. Érico foi o responsável pela produção, composição e mixagem do álbum. Na mesma categoria, concorreu com lançamentos de artistas renomados como Liniker (Zé Nigro e Gustavo Ruiz), Antonio Adolfo (Marcelo Saboia) e a influente pop star Rosalía (Manny Marroquin/Chris Gehringer).
Após ser indicado pela segunda vez consecutiva, Érico venceu o Grammy Latino na categoria de Melhor Álbum de Engenharia de Gravação, pelo álbum "Canto a la Imaginación" da cantora catalã Marina Tuset. Ele foi responsável pela produção, gravação e mixagem, com masterização feita pelo engenheiro Felipe Tichauer.
English:
Érico Moreira comes from a family of musicians and artists, immersed in the world of music from a young age. At 10 years old, he was already accompanying his father, also a musician and composer in Paraty-RJ.
At the age of 12, he moved to São Paulo, where he started as a studio assistant at the renowned producer Xuxa Levy's studio. At 17, he began to focus mainly on producing soundtracks for advertising, television, and cinema, while working as a sound engineer.
At 24, he recorded his first solo album, "Pindorama", where he played all the instruments and took care of the recording and mixing. In 2007, he moved to Barcelona and joined forces with the local singer Sara Pi, forming a project that lasted 11 years, resulting in 3 albums, two of which were released by Sony Music Spain. In 2022, with over 100 original songs in his repertoire, he returned to his solo project and released "Dentro da Matrix", his second studio album.
It's rare to find artists who master multiple skills like musician, composer, performer, producer, recording and mixing engineer, but Érico Moreira is one of those rare talents. In his latest album, "Dentro da Matrix", he took on all these responsibilities. The album, produced independently, was nominated for the 2022 Latin Grammy Awards in the Best Recording Engineering Album category. Érico was responsible for the production, composition, and mixing of the album. In the same category, he competed with releases from renowned artists such as Liniker (Zé Nigro and Gustavo Ruiz), Antonio Adolfo (Marcelo Saboia), and the influential pop star Rosalía (Manny Marroquin/Chris Gehringer).
After being nominated for the second consecutive time, Érico won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Recording Engineering Album, for the album "Canto a la Imaginación" by the Catalan singer Marina Tuset. He was responsible for the production, recording, and mixing, with mastering done by engineer Felipe Tichauer.
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The Bahian Recôncavo was final port-of-call for more enslaved human beings than any other place throughout the entirety of mankind’s existence on this planet.
Brazil absorbed over ten times the number of enslaved Africans taken to the United States of America, and is a repository of African deities now largely forgotten in their lands of origin.
Brazil 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.
"Great culture is great power. And in a small world great things are possible."
The Matrix was built to open the world to Bahian musicians by opening the world to all creators.
In the Matrix you curate people (and entities) for what they do and where they do it. And they can curate you. A network is formed.
By the mathematical magic of the small-world phenomenon, everybody in the Matrix (as in human society) tends to within degrees of everybody else.
And by logical extension, the entire planet. All can (potentially) be found by everybody. QED
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"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers (BOSTON): Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory ... Former personal recording engineer for Prince; "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd Webber (LONDON): Premier cellist in UK; brother of Andrew (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad (RIO DE JANEIRO/CHICAGO): Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze (LOS ANGELES): manager, Kamasi Washington
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
"Very nice! Thank you for this. Warmest regards and wishing much success for the project! Matt"
—Son of Jimmy Garrison (bass for John Coltrane, Bill Evans...); plays with Herbie Hancock and other greats...
Ground Zero for the project was the culture born in Brazil's quilombos (in Angola a kilombo is a village; in Brazil it is a village either founded by Africans or Afro-Brazilians who had escaped slavery, or — as in the case of São Francisco do Paraguaçu below — occupied by such after abandonment by the ruling class):

...theme for a Brazilian Matrix, from an Afro-Brazilian Mass by
Milton Nascimento
I opened the shop in Salvador, Bahia in 2005 in order to create an outlet to the wider world for magnificent Brazilian musicians.
David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR found us (above), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (he's a huge jazz fan), David Byrne, Oscar Castro-Neves... Spike Lee walked past the place while I was sitting on the stoop across the street drinking beer and listening to samba from the speaker in the window...
But we weren't exactly easy for the world-at-large to get to. So in order to extend the place's ethos I transformed the site associated with it into a network wherein Brazilian musicians I knew would recommend other Brazilian musicians, who would recommend others...
And as I anticipated, the chalky hand of God-as-mathematician intervened: In human society — per the small-world phenomenon — most of the billions of us on earth are within some 6 or fewer degrees of each other. Likewise, within a network of interlinked artists as I've described above, most of these artists will in the same manner be at most a handful of steps away from each other.
So then, all that's necessary to put the Brazilians within possible purview of the wide wide world is to include them among a wide wide range of artists around that world.
If, for example, Quincy Jones is inside the matrix, then anybody on his page — whether they be accessing from a campus in L.A., a pub in Dublin, a shebeen in Cape Town, a tent in Mongolia — will be close, transitable steps away from Raymundo Sodré, even if they know nothing of Brazil and are unaware that Sodré sings/dances upon this planet. Sodré, having been knocked from the perch of fame and ground into anonymity by Brazil's dictatorship, has now the alternative of access to the world-at-large via recourse to the vast potential of network theory.
...to the degree that other artists et al — writers, researchers, filmmakers, painters, choreographers...everywhere — do also. Artificial intelligence not required. Real intelligence, yes.
Years ago in NYC (I've lived here in Brazil for 32 years now) I "rescued" unpaid royalties (performance & mechanical) for artists/composers including Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd (for his rights in Bob Marley compositions; Clement was Bob's first producer), Led Zeppelin, Ray Barretto, Philip Glass and many others. Aretha called me out of the blue vis-à-vis money owed by Atlantic Records. Allen Klein (managed The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles) called about money due the estate of Sam Cooke. Jerry Ragovoy (Time Is On My Side, Piece of My Heart) called just to see if he had any unpaid money floating around out there (the royalty world was a shark-filled jungle, to mangle metaphors, and I doubt it's changed).
But the pertinent client (and friend) in the present context is Earl "Speedo" Carroll, of The Cadillacs. Earl went from doo-wopping on Harlem streetcorners to chart-topping success to working as a custodian at PS 87 elementary school on the west side of Manhattan. Through all of this he never lost what made him great.
Greatness and fame are too often conflated. The former should be accessible independently of the latter.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
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