Gabriel Policarpo
This Brazilian cultural matrix positions Gabriel Policarpo globally...
Curation
CURATION
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from this page:
by Matrix
The Integrated Global Creative Economy
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Name:
Gabriel Policarpo
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City/Place:
Niterói, RJ
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Country:
Brazil
Life & Work
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Bio:
Referência no mundo do samba, o músico, arranjador e educador, Gabriel Policarpo, destaca-se pela maneira criativa e virtuosa de tocar o repique. Nascido em 1984, na cidade de Niterói - RJ, ele despertou seu interesse pela percussão durante a infância, tocando em blocos carnavalescos. Aos 13 anos, entrou para escola do seu bairro, G.R.E.S Unidos do Viradouro, e após dois anos na mesma agremiação, sob a regência do Mestre Ciça, assumiu o lugar de primeiro repique e solista da escola. E posteriormente, no ano de 2015 compôs a comissão de mestres de bateria para o grupo especial do carnaval do Rio de Janeiro. Em 2019 a marca brasileira de instrumentos musicais Contemporânea, lança o Repique “Signature Gabriel Policarpo” com idéias e criações desenvolvida pelo músico para o instrumento.
Ao lado do músico Bernardo Aguiar, criou o Pandeiro Repique Duo (PRD), trabalho que coloca lado a lado esses dois instrumentos típicos da alma carioca expandindo desde os limites regionais às sonoridades universais. Após três anos de estrada, o PRD lançou seu primeiro álbum que contém um CD bônus com participações especiais de Yamandú Costa, Nicolas Krassik e Carlos Malta, Marcos Suzano, Mestre Ciça e o cantor africano, Ashimba. Desde então, atua por diferentes palcos e universidades do mundo, dentre eles, The Juilliard School of Music, The Philadelphia University of Arts, City University London e Copenhagen Rytmisk Konservatorium; e na Dinamarca, em 2014, o Duo gravou o primeiro álbum do Strejf, grupo instrumental formado em parceria com o baixista francês, Brice Soniano, e o pianista dinamarquês, Carsten Kær.
Como educador, Gabriel desenvolve cursos e atua na preparação de grupos musicais por diferentes países. Durante 4 anos, no Canadá, ministrou workshops sobre a música brasileira e se apresentou como convidado especial, no Folklorama, maior festival multicultural do mundo. Já na cidade do Rio de Janeiro criou a escola de ritmos Batuquebato, projeto pedagógico que propõe o ensino dos ritmos brasileiros aplicados a instrumentos de escolas de samba; o que motivou a criação da Orquestra de Ritmos Batuquebato, cuja proposta original é: agregar instrumentos harmônicos e melódicos a ritmos universais através de composições autorais.
Gabriel Policarpo também participa ao lado de grandes nomes da música brasileira e internacional, tanto em shows como em gravações. Destaque para gravação e participação na turnê do álbum “De bem com a vida”, vencedor do Grammy Latino como melhor disco de samba de 2016, com Martinho da Vila. Assim como, já dividiu o palco ao lado de outros ícones, dentre eles, Alcione, Marcelo D2, Chico César, Hamilton de Holanda, Marcos Suzano, Carlos Malta, Roberta Sá, Xangai, Gabriel Moura, Cátia de França e Guns N' Roses no Rock in Rio 3.
My Instruction
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Lessons/Workshops:
Curso online de Repique
Músico referência no Brasil e no mundo pela sua maneira criativa e virtuosa de tocar o repique, Gabriel Policarpo apresenta a primeira edição do seu Curso de Repique no formato online e ao vivo.
Turmas Níveis Iniciante e Avançado
Clips (more may be added)
The Integrated Global Creative Economy (we invented the concept) uncoils from Brazil's sprawling Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian cultural matrix... concatenating branches of a virtual rainforest tree rooted in Bahia, canopy spreading to embrace the entire planet...
Ex Terra Brasilis
A starting point for this project was the culture born in Brazil's quilombos (in Angola a "quilombo" 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 above — occupied by such after abandonment by the ruling class). Below Milton Nascimento sings "Ony Saruê" for the deity Oxalá, from his Misso dos Quilombos (Mass for the Quilombos)...
...theme music for this Brazilian Matrix, from an Afro-Brazilian Mass by
From inside this Matrix, all creators-creative entities everywhere — empowered by the mathematics of network theory — become potentially discoverable by all people worldwide. Go straight to one of the (randomly selected) creators-creative entities below to see how their Matrix Page — information and media, outgoing and incoming curation — works (reload to feature other artists/creators), or find out below the black line below what unsung (metaphorically only) brilliance this is all about:
More on these profound incubators of Afro-Brazilian culture at:
Os Quilombos da Bahia
The Quilombos of Bahia
There are certain countries, the names of which fire the popular imagination. Brazil is one of them; an amalgam of primitive and sophisticated, jungle and elegance, luscious jazz harmonics — there’s no other place like it in the world. And while Rio de Janeiro, or its fame anyway, tends toward the sophisticated end of the spectrum, Bahia bends toward the atavistic…
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 (and here; 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 ... in the past it extended into what is now urban Salvador), one must be led to the inevitable conclusion that one is in a place unique to history, and to the present:
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.
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.
Three cultures — from three continents — running for their lives, their confluence forming an unprecedented fourth. Pandeirista on the roof.
That's where this Matrix begins:
Wolfram MathWorld
The idea is simple, powerful, and egalitarian: To propagate for them, the Matrix must propagate for all. Most in the world are within six degrees of us. The concept of a "small world" network (see Wolfram above) applies here, placing artists from the Recôncavo and the sertão, from Salvador... from Brooklyn, Berlin and Mombassa... musicians, writers, filmmakers... clicks (recommendations) away from their peers worldwide.
Recent Visitors Map
Great culture is great power.
And in a small world great things are possible.
Alicia Svigals
"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...
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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For a complete list of everybody inside, tap TOTAL below:
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Susan Rogers
Julian Lloyd Webber
Clarice Assad
Kamasi Washington
Randy Brecker
Matt Garrison
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