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  • If You Can't Stand the Heat
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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.

 

  • Giba Conceição
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Criador acima/Creator above

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Giba Conceição
  • City/Place: Salvador, Bahia
  • Country: Brazil

Life & Work

  • Bio: Giba Conceição is a percussionist in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. He began playing professionally in 1986 and in 1987 was the recipient of the prestigious Trofeu (Trophy) Caymmi as that year's musical revelation.

    Giba is deeply involved in candomblé and the African rhythms of Bahia, and was music director for Grupo Ofá, organizing and playing on their recordings of candomblé-based music, released as "Odum Orín". He's worked with Paulinho da Viola, Paulo Moura, Gilberto Gil, Jimmy Cliff, and many, many others. Something less common in Bahia (more associated with Rio de Janeiro), Giba is also a consummate cuica player.

YOU RECOMMEND

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 Giba Conceição:

  • 2 Bahia
  • 2 Brazil
  • 2 Candomblé
  • 2 Percussion
  • 2 Salvador
  • John McWhorter Columbia University Faculty
  • Yosvany Terry Composer
  • Taylor Ashton Visual Artist
  • Flora Purim Guitar
  • Jonathan Griffin Reporter
  • Marcus Miller Composer
  • Andrew Finn Magill Appalachian Music
  • Osvaldo Golijov College of the Holy Cross Faculty
  • Mariana Zwarg Composer
  • Papa Grows Funk New Orleans
  • Horácio Reis Bahia
  • Chick Corea Composer
  • Robby Krieger Rock 'n' Roll
  • Lula Moreira Composer
  • Cassie Kinoshi Saxophone
  • Paulinho Fagundes Rio Grande do Sul
  • Cory Wong Jazz
  • Raphael Saadiq Record Producer
  • João Callado Music Producer
  • Carlos Lyra Guitar
  • Kyle Poole New York City
  • Mingo Araújo Brazil
  • Ali Jackson Percussion
  • Vadinho França Presidente de Bloco de Carnaval, Carnival Bloco President
  • Issac Delgado Salsa
  • Casa da Mãe MPB
  • Booker T. Jones Songwriter
  • Onisajé Educadora, Educator
  • Jericho Brown Poet
  • Carol Soares Samba de Roda
  • Bombino Guitar
  • Orlando 'Maraca' Valle Flute
  • Nublu Club
  • Tom Bergeron Frevo
  • Michael Olatuja Composer
  • Sharay Reed Chicago
  • Sandro Albert Brazilian Jazz
  • Susana Baca Peru
  • Nicolas Krassik Choro
  • McIntosh County Shouters Ring Shouts
  • Carla Visi Singer
  • Bill Hinchberger Educator
  • Nabihah Iqbal London
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Writer
  • Jason Parham Publisher
  • James Martin Funk
  • Paulo Aragão Violão
  • Bai Kamara Jr. Singer-Songwriter
  • VJ Gabiru Bahia
  • Eric Bogle Singer-Songwriter
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Bahia
  • Darol Anger Folk & Traditional
  • Nikki Yeoh Composer
  • Jon Cowherd Jazz
  • Mona Lisa Saloy New Orleans
  • Guga Stroeter Candomblé
  • Los Muñequitos de Matanzas Matanzas
  • João Rabello Samba
  • Leandro Afonso Brazil
  • Mary Stallings Singer
  • J. Velloso Record Producer
  • MicroTrio de Ivan Huol Salvador
  • Anders Osborne Americana
  • Terreon Gully Drums
  • Alyn Shipton Bass
  • Richie Stearns Bluegrass
  • Luke Daniels Scottish Traditional Music
  • Arturo O'Farrill Composer
  • OVANA Homemade Instruments
  • Kimmo Pohjonen Accordion
  • Miles Mosley Composer
  • Walter Smith III Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Arranger
  • Gamelan Sekar Jaya Indonesia
  • Mike Compton Songwriter
  • Gab Ferruz MPB
  • Hilton Schilder Cape Town
  • Fábio Peron Choro
  • Howard Levy Record Label Owner
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Percussão, Percussion
  • Rotem Sivan Jazz
  • Bodek Janke Percussion
  • Mariana Zwarg Flute
  • Francisco Mela Composer
  • Don Byron Film Scores
  • Jazzmeia Horn Singer-Songwriter
  • Leela James R&B
  • Sombrinha Rio de Janeiro
  • António Zambujo Portugal
  • Tray Chaney Record Producer
  • Ivan Huol Percussion
  • Guinha Ramires Florianópolis
  • Willy Schwarz Songwriter
  • Sam Yahel Organ Instruction
  • Nana Nkweti University of Alabama Faculty
  • Ana Luisa Barral MPB
  • H.L. Thompson Brazil
  • Conrad Herwig New York City
  • Giovanni Russonello Washington, D.C.
  • Lianne La Havas London
  • Walter Smith III Saxophone
  • Carlos Malta Pífano
  • Astrig Akseralian Cambridge, England
  • Pallett Tehran
  • Anouar Brahem Jazz
  • Mykia Jovan Blues
  • Ana Moura Portugal
  • Hilton Schilder Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Ore Ogunbiyi Writer
  • Quincy Jones Arranger
  • Hank Roberts Ithaca, New York
  • J. Period Brooklyn, NY
  • Archie Shepp Jazz
  • Dave Douglas Trumpet
  • Paul Anthony Smith Painter
  • OVANA Africa
  • Pharoah Sanders Jazz
  • Susana Baca Afro-Peruvian Music
  • Shoshana Zuboff Social Psychology
  • MonoNeon Composer
  • Ron Miles MSU Denver Music Faculty
  • François Zalacain Record Producer
  • Greg Ruby Gypsy Jazz
  • Nicole Mitchell University of Pittsburgh Faculty
  • Mateus Aleluia Filho Bahia
  • Sabine Hossenfelder Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
  • Alex Mesquita Guitar
  • Thiago Amud Brazil
  • Johnathan Blake Drums
  • Pierre Onassis Samba Reggae
  • Nêgah Santos New York City
  • Howard Levy Composer
  • Márcio Valverde Bahia
  • The Umoza Music Project Malawi
  • Yotam Silberstein Guitar Instruction
  • Orquestra Afrosinfônica Música Clássica Contemporânia, Contemporary Classical Music
  • Alex Conde Jazz
  • Joel Guzmán Tejano
  • Fred Hersch Jazz
  • Ivan Bastos Brasil, Brazil
  • Doug Adair Americana
  • Lenny Kravitz Singer
  • Chris Dave Houston
  • Márcio Valverde Guitar
  • Tessa Hadley Bath Spa University Faculty
  • Jan Ramsey Louisiana
  • Nduduzo Makhathini South Africa
  • D.D. Jackson Television Scores
  • Carlinhos Brown Bahia
  • Intisar Abioto Photographer
  • Seckou Keita Composer
  • Ron Blake Juilliard Faculty
  • Marc Ribot Experimental Music
  • Monk Boudreaux R&B
  • Woz Kaly African Music
  • Mingus Big Band Jazz
  • Walter Pinheiro São Paulo
  • Benny Benack III Singer-Songwriter
  • Paulinho do Reco Brazil
  • Quatuor Ebène Contemporary Classical Music
  • J. Pierre Artist
  • Quatuor Ebène Classical Music
  • Fabian Almazan Film Scores
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Basketball
  • Leo Nocentelli New Orleans
  • Branford Marsalis Classical Music
  • Mike Marshall Guitar
  • Alex Hargreaves Violin
  • Rick Beato Author
  • Alegre Corrêa Berimbau
  • Jaques Morelenbaum Rio de Janeiro
  • Wadada Leo Smith Trumpet
  • Nelson Faria Guitar
  • Alma Deutscher Violin
  • Larissa Luz Bahia
  • Chris Thile Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Ariane Astrid Atodji Yaoundé
  • Mestrinho Forró
  • Jazzmeia Horn Writer
  • Avner Dorman Composer
  • Léo Rugero Sanfona de 8 Baixos
  • Alex de Mora Photographer
  • Phakama Mbonambi Publisher
  • Fernando Brandão Flute
  • Celino dos Santos Bahia
  • Mandla Buthelezi Trumpet
  • Richard Bona Africa
  • Capinam Poeta, Poet
  • Snigdha Poonam Journalist
  • Mingo Araújo Brazil
  • John Archibald Journalist
  • Nego Álvaro Percussion
  • Nelson Ayres Piano
  • Sean Jones Composer
  • Andrew Finn Magill Samba
  • Luíz Paixão Pernambuco
  • Luciano Calazans Bass
  • Marcelinho Oliveira Keyboards
  • Giba Gonçalves Bahia
  • Rayendra Sunito Jakarta
  • Nelson Cerqueira Romancista, Novelist
  • Deesha Philyaw Writer
  • Dónal Lunny Songwriter
  • Alan Bishop Record Label Owner
  • Henrique Araújo Brazil
  • Hua Hsu Vassar College Faculty
  • Immanuel Wilkins Jazz
  • Rahim AlHaj Baghdad
  • Alicia Svigals Klezmer Fiddle
  • Giveton Gelin Bahamas
  • Larry Achiampong Ghana
  • Ballaké Sissoko Bamako
  • Romero Lubambo Guitar
  • Jeff Preiss Filmmaker
  • Nduduzo Makhathini Composer
  • Gal Costa Salvador
  • Larissa Fulana de Tal Salvador
  • Bill Pearis Brooklyn, NY
  • Mehdi Rajabian Composer
  • Gilad Hekselman Guitar
  • Arturo Sandoval Piano
  • Vanessa Moreno Brazil
  • Adam O'Farrill Trumpet
  • Dona Dalva Brazil
  • Gino Sorcinelli Writer
  • Sarz Nigeria
  • Júlio Caldas Guitarra Baiana
  • Simon Singh Mathematics
  • Benny Benack III Pittsburgh
  • Marcus Strickland Jazz
  • Natan Drubi Violão, Guitar
  • Leo Genovese Composer
  • Evgeny Kissin Classical Music
  • Leonardo Mendes MPB
  • Matt Glaser Violin
  • Azi Schwartz החזן עזי שוורץ Jewish Liturgical Music
  • Aindrias de Staic Storyteller
  • Pedrito Martinez Batá
  • Fred Dantas Choro
  • Teddy Swims Soul
  • H.L. Thompson DJ
  • Ivan Bastos Compositor, Composer
  • Robby Krieger R&B
  • Eivør Pálsdóttir Singer-Songwriter
  • Seu Jorge Brazil
  • Taylor Ashton Vancouver
  • Gilmar Gomes Percussion
  • Sam Eastmond Jazz, Klezmer, Jewish, World, Downtown
  • André Becker Música Clássica, Classical Music
  • Patty Kiss Guitarra Baiana
  • Arismar do Espírito Santo Samba
  • NIcholas Casey International Correspondent
  • Theon Cross Jazz
  • Mohamed Diab Director
  • Nelson Cerqueira Poeta, Poet
  • Michel Camilo Dominican Republic
  • Ben Wendel New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music Faculty
  • Aurino de Jesus Samba
  • Kiko Freitas Jazz
  • Martin Hayes Irish Traditional Music
  • Ubiratan Marques Maestro, Conductor
  • Willie Jones III Drums
  • Steve Cropper Record Producer
  • Sarah Jarosz Mandolin
  • Gary Clark Jr. Austin, Texas
  • Nicholas Gill Food Writer
  • Corey Henry Tremé
  • Joatan Nascimento Bahia
  • Tam-Ky Asian-African Foods
  • Arturo O'Farrill Bandleader
  • Lula Moreira Sculptor
  • Roque Ferreira Brazil
  • Shamarr Allen R&B
  • Alicia Svigals New York City
  • Rebeca Omordia London
  • Quatuor Ebène Classicalized Crossover
  • Michael Formanek Bass
  • Ênio Bernardes Percussão, Percussion
  • Moreno Veloso Guitar
  • Peter Mulvey Americana
  • Mika Mutti MPB
  • Issac Delgado Composer
  • Marcel Camargo Record Producer
  • Ramita Navai Journalist
  • Gerald Clayton Piano
  • Gregory Hutchinson Jazz
  • Hercules Gomes Choro
  • Igor Levit Classical Music
  • Mestre Nelito Chula
  • John Donohue Cartoonist
  • Tom Schnabel Author
  • Fred Hersch New York Jazz Academy Faculty
  • Bobby Vega Bass Instruction
  • Nahre Sol Composer
  • Fábio Zanon Classical Guitar
  • Grant Rindner New York City
  • Michael W. Twitty Food Writer
  • Ajurinã Zwarg Rio de Janeiro
  • David Castillo Actor
  • Eli Saslow Journalist
  • Raelis Vasquez Drawings
  • Tommaso Zillio Canada
  • Duane Benjamin UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Faculty
  • Weedie Braimah Djembefola
  • João Bosco Brazil
  • Edil Pacheco Record Producer
  • Adriano Giffoni Brazilian Jazz
  • Carlinhos Brown Salvador
  • Marcelo Caldi Composer
  • Chris Boardman Arranger
  • Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro Pandeiro
  • Joe Newberry Banjo Instruction
  • Deesha Philyaw Short Stories
  • Mono/Poly Los Angeles
  • Nicholas Daniel Conductor
  • Donald Vega Composer
  • Loli Molina Buenos Aires
  • Jill Scott Singer-Songwriter
  • Jussara Silveira Salvador
  • Ivan Bastos Bahia
  • Oswaldo Amorim Escola de Música de Brasília Faculty
  • China Moses Singer
  • Owen Williams Software Engineer
  • Nicole Mitchell Jazz
  • Nei Lopes Rio de Janeiro
  • Jimmy Dludlu AfroJazz
  • Maciel Salú Singer
  • Steve Coleman Jazz
  • Ben Okri London
  • Larry McCray Guitar
  • Arismar do Espírito Santo Bass
  • Yayá Massemba Vale do Capão
  • Nicolas Krassik Rio de Janeiro
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Compositor, Songwriter
  • James Carter Jazz
  • Eric Galm Percussion
  • Marcus Miller Bass
  • Asa Branca Folk & Traditional
  • Tony Trischka Banjo
  • Gerônimo Santana Trombone
  • Atlantic Brass Quintet Jazz
  • Lina Lapelytė Lithuania
  • Maia Sharp Guitar
  • Stephanie Foden Brazil
  • Eddie Kadi London
  • Luciano Calazans Bahia
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto Multi-Cultural
  • Jas Kayser Panama City
  • Fabian Almazan Jazz
  • Ofer Mizrahi Israel

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

 

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