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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 Gonçalves
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Criador acima/Creator above

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Giba Gonçalves
  • City/Place: Paris
  • Country: France
  • Hometown: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Life & Work

  • Bio: Giba is a percussionist from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. Currently residing in Paris he is the director of Batalá, dedicated to samba reggae and with groups in locations around the world.

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  • Batalá Washington at the 2019 DC’s Funk Parade
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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 Giba Gonçalves:

  • 0 Bahia
  • 0 Brazil
  • 0 Candomblé
  • 0 Paris
  • 0 Percussion
  • 0 Salvador
  • Bule Bule Salvador
  • David Braid Classical Music
  • Beth Bahia Cohen Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Robb Royer Pop
  • Yvette Holzwarth Violin
  • Munyungo Jackson Los Angeles
  • Hendrik Meurkens New York City
  • Alita Moses New York City
  • Saileog Ní Cheannabháin Viola
  • Vivien Schweitzer Piano
  • Michael Olatuja New York City
  • David Sacks Bossa Nova
  • Caroline Shaw Contemporary Classical Music
  • Yoron Israel Drums
  • Sebastian Notini Bateria, Drums
  • Anthony Coleman Jewish Music
  • Ana Luisa Barral MPB
  • Eamonn Flynn Funk
  • Irma Thomas Gospel
  • Capitão Corisco Salvador
  • Zigaboo Modeliste Songwriter
  • Christian Sands Piano
  • Bebê Kramer Composer
  • Casa PretaHub Cachoeira Cachoeira
  • Ali Jackson Percussion
  • Wayne Escoffery New York City
  • Ênio Bernardes Produtor de Discos, Record Producer
  • Marilda Santanna Brasil, Brazil
  • TaRon Lockett Singer-Songwriter
  • Lenna Bahule MPB
  • Renato Braz Brazil
  • Ibrahim Maalouf Flugelhorn
  • Tommy Orange Novelist
  • Archie Shepp Playwright
  • Cinho Damatta Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Diosmar Filho Rio de Janeiro
  • Rebeca Omordia Piano
  • Carwyn Ellis Record Producer
  • Rahim AlHaj Iraq
  • Giba Gonçalves Paris
  • Adam Neely Bass
  • Mohamed Diab Cairo
  • Harish Raghavan Brooklyn, NY
  • Seu Jorge Rio de Janeiro
  • Rosa Passos Bahia
  • Gerson Silva Music Director
  • Natan Drubi São Paulo
  • Sombrinha Banjo
  • Mark Turner Jazz
  • Jared Sims Classical Music
  • Helen Shaw New York City
  • Maladitso Band Lilongwe
  • Marcela Valdes Writer
  • Carlinhos Brown Bahia
  • Ned Sublette Writer
  • Katuka Africanidades Editora de Livros, Book Publisher
  • Teresa Cristina Brazil
  • Moses Boyd Composer
  • Helado Negro Singer-Songwriter
  • Etan Thomas Basketball
  • Marcel Powell Samba
  • Nancy Viégas MPB
  • Dale Farmer Old-Time Music
  • Andra Day Actor
  • Regina Carter Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Jim Hoke Record Producer
  • Nate Chinen Radio Director
  • Andrew Finn Magill Violin
  • Katuka Africanidades Salvador
  • J. Velloso Brazil
  • Toumani Diabaté Africa
  • Fred Dantas Trombone
  • Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram Blues
  • Mauro Refosco Compositor de Televisão, Television Scores
  • Jim Lauderdale Bluegrass
  • Rissi Palmer Country
  • Galactic Funk
  • Raul Midón Songwriter
  • Renee Rosnes New York City
  • Jeremy Pelt Trumpet Instruction
  • Ron Carter Jazz
  • William Parker Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Kenny Barron New York City
  • Jean-Paul Bourelly Educator
  • Stefon Harris Composer
  • Avishai Cohen אבישי כה Israel
  • Arturo Sandoval Film Scores
  • Richard Galliano Author
  • Gregory Hutchinson Soul
  • Tom Piazza Music Writer
  • Rahim AlHaj Baghdad
  • Jonathon Grasse Gamelan
  • Brian Jackson Keyboards
  • Alexandre Vieira Salvador
  • Jurandir Santana Brazil
  • John Francis Flynn Dublin
  • Omari Jazz Visual Artist
  • Osvaldo Golijov College of the Holy Cross Faculty
  • Dave Douglas New York City
  • Samba de Nicinha Bahia
  • Martin Koenig Record Producer
  • Tomoko Omura Brooklyn, NY
  • Jason Parham Publisher
  • Celsinho Silva Pandeiro
  • Martin Fondse Piano
  • Rodrigo Caçapa Viola Brasileira
  • Deesha Philyaw Columnist
  • Dadi Carvalho Rio de Janeiro
  • Ashley Pezzotti Jazz
  • Errollyn Wallen Contemporary Classical Music
  • Yacouba Sissoko Griot
  • Richie Stearns Appalachian Music
  • Greg Ruby Author
  • Siba Veloso Pernambuco
  • Shabaka Hutchings Composer
  • Urânia Munzanzu Poeta, Poet
  • Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah Jazz
  • Carlinhos 7 Cordas Guitar
  • Clint Smith Essayist
  • Leela James Blues
  • Melanie Charles Brooklyn, NY
  • Joshue Ashby Violin
  • Rick Beato Recording Engineer
  • Derrick Adams Brooklyn, NY
  • Cimafunk Singer-Songwriter
  • Luiz Brasil Bahia
  • Márcio Valverde Bahia
  • Ubiratan Marques Brasil, Brazil
  • Paulinho do Reco Percussion
  • David Bruce YouTuber
  • Tito Jackson R&B
  • Brian Lynch Jazz
  • Eric Coleman Photographer
  • Paquito D'Rivera Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Giba Gonçalves Percussion
  • Uli Geissendoerfer UNLV School of Music Faculty
  • Lynn Nottage Columbia University Faculty
  • Ray Angry Gospel
  • Mestrinho Singer-Songwriter
  • Peter Serkin Contemporary Classical Music
  • Ben Harper Gospel
  • Orrin Evans Composer
  • Sean Jones Jazz
  • Filhos da Pitangueira Brazil
  • Magda Giannikou New York City
  • Martin Koenig Balkan Music
  • The Umoza Music Project Rap
  • Bobby Sanabria New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music Faculty
  • Şener Özmen Poet
  • Paulo César Pinheiro Lyricist
  • Neymar Dias Brazil
  • Alex Clark Cinematographer
  • Brentano String Quartet Yale School of Music
  • Milton Nascimento Brazil
  • Manolo Badrena Percussion
  • Towa Tei テイ・トウワ Record Producer
  • Babau Santana Percussão, Percussion
  • Gabriel Grossi Composer
  • Chris Potter New York City
  • Caridad De La Luz Actor
  • Shanequa Gay Storyteller
  • Carlinhos 7 Cordas Brazil
  • Shaun Martin Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Shannon Ali Writer
  • Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram Guitar
  • Henrique Cazes Composer
  • Jas Kayser Afrobeat
  • Walter Pinheiro Choro
  • Angelique Kidjo Multi-Cultural
  • Musa Okwonga Berlin
  • Jeff Ballard Jazz
  • Greg Osby Saxophone
  • David Virelles Jazz
  • James Carter Composer
  • Gord Sheard Composer
  • Sombrinha Bandolim
  • Julien Libeer Belgium
  • Rudy Royston Photographer
  • Charles Munka Collage
  • Tito Jackson Soul
  • Guto Wirtti Composer
  • Nikki Yeoh Jazz
  • Daru Jones Jazz
  • Irma Thomas Singer
  • Kengo Kuma Tokyo
  • Eli Saslow Journalist
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Teddy Swims Singer-Songwriter
  • João Bosco Samba
  • Stan Douglas Vancouver
  • Mestre Barachinha Pernambuco
  • Charlie Bolden Composer
  • Plínio Fernandes Choro
  • John Zorn Film Scores
  • Horacio Hernández Havana
  • David Byrne Film Scores
  • Marcel Camargo MPB
  • David Sedaris Writer
  • Estrela Brilhante do Recife Recife
  • César Camargo Mariano Piano
  • Tom Piazza Screenwriter
  • Nação Zumbi Rap
  • Sam Yahel New York City
  • Lenine Pernambuco
  • McCoy Mrubata Cape Town
  • Nguyên Lê Composer
  • Rita Batista Salvador
  • Kiko Horta Brazil
  • Jeff Tweedy Poet
  • Logan Richardson Kansas City, Missouri
  • Buck Jones Bahia
  • Ari Hoenig Composer
  • Mino Cinélu New York City
  • Caetano Veloso Brazil
  • Urânia Munzanzu Brasil, Brazil
  • Siphiwe Mhlambi South Africa
  • Mark Bingham New Orleans
  • Bodek Janke Contemporary Classical Music
  • Cássio Nobre Guitarra Baiana
  • Liron Meyuhas Singer
  • Arthur Verocai Arranger
  • Mario Ulloa Guitar
  • Vanessa Moreno Guitar
  • Carlinhos Brown Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Tero Saarinen Dancer
  • Jeff Tweedy Americana
  • Igor Levit Piano
  • Regina Carter Classical Music
  • Manuel Alejandro Rangel Maracas
  • Linda May Han Oh Jazz
  • Lucian Ban Composer
  • Ofer Mizrahi Indian Slide Guiter
  • Paulo César Pinheiro MPB
  • Wynton Marsalis New York City
  • Moacyr Luz Samba
  • Cimafunk Cuba
  • Fábio Luna Multi-Instrumentalista, Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Bob Lanzetti Educator
  • Mino Cinélu Percussion
  • John Edward Hasse Curator
  • Roque Ferreira Samba de Roda
  • Terrace Martin Jazz
  • Zachary Richard Singer-Songwriter
  • Kiko Souza Ska
  • Eamonn Flynn Singer-Songwriter
  • Tatiana Eva-Marie Gypsy Jazz
  • Amaro Freitas Composer
  • Alexandre Vieira Contrabaixo, Double Bass
  • Buck Jones Salvador
  • Monk Boudreaux Funk
  • Calida Rawles Painter
  • Derek Sivers Guitar
  • Kim Hill Songwriter
  • Wilson Simoninha São Paulo
  • Yilian Cañizares Violin
  • Raymundo Sodré Bahia
  • Guilherme Kastrup Drums
  • Bukassa Kabengele Congo
  • John Doyle Irish Traditional Music
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Basketball
  • Márcia Short Brazil
  • Lô Borges Belo Horizonte
  • Mahsa Vahdat Singer
  • Oscar Peñas Multi-Cultural
  • Alana Gabriela Bahia
  • Buck Jones Brasil, Brazil
  • Danilo Caymmi Samba
  • Nancy Ruth Composer
  • John Harle Television Scores
  • Alan Williams Architectural Installations
  • Fatoumata Diawara Paris
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh Singer
  • Vânia Oliveira Brasil, Brazil
  • Brigit Katz Writer
  • Antonio Sánchez Film Scores
  • Hua Hsu Writer
  • Molly Tuttle Banjo
  • Fred P DJ
  • Luiz Brasil MPB
  • Robi Botos Composer
  • Marília Sodré Instrução de Violão, Guitar Instruction
  • Leandro Afonso Film Director
  • Guinga Brazil
  • Philip Cashian London
  • Samuca do Acordeon Forró
  • Tero Saarinen Finland
  • Gabriel Grossi Choro
  • Theo Bleckmann Singer
  • Ken Coleman Detroit, Michigan
  • Tierra Whack Rapper
  • Del McCoury Country
  • João Rabello Brazil
  • Hugo Linns Pernambuco
  • Bernardo Aguiar Pandeiro
  • Elisa Goritzki Salvador
  • Paddy Groenland Jazz
  • Tony Austin Composer
  • Avishai Cohen אבישי כה Bass
  • Ron McCurdy Writer
  • Damon Albarn Record Producer
  • Liberty Ellman Brooklyn, NY
  • Greg Ruby Jazz
  • Doug Adair Music & Cultural Education
  • Ron McCurdy Trumpet
  • Justin Brown Drums
  • Leci Brandão Brazil
  • Natan Drubi Choro
  • Casa da Mãe Choro
  • Tobias Meinhart Jazz
  • Sharita Towne Portland, Oregon
  • Susana Baca Multi-Cultural
  • Jeff Tang Brooklyn, NY
  • Paul Anthony Smith Jamaica
  • Priscila Castro Carimbó
  • Jane Ira Bloom Multi-Cultural
  • Richard Galliano Composer
  • James Poyser Songwriter
  • Orrin Evans Piano
  • Armandinho Macêdo Choro
  • Oded Lev-Ari Music Producer
  • Mike Marshall Bluegrass
  • Anthony Hamilton Record Producer
  • Johnny Vidacovich Drums
  • Marcel Camargo Choro
  • Julie Fowlis Singer
  • Bob Reynolds Los Angeles
  • Ramita Navai Journalist
  • Rudy Royston Educator
  • Paulo César Pinheiro Rio de Janeiro
  • David Virelles New York City
  • Pedro Abib Bahia
  • Christian McBride Bass
  • Kurt Andersen Essayist
  • Fábio Zanon São Paulo
  • Rodrigo Caçapa Brazil
  • Marília Sodré Brasil, Brazil
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Hip-Hop
  • Amilton Godoy MPB
  • Roberto Fonseca Havana
  • Norah Jones Singer-Songwriter
  • Jamel Brinkley Writer
  • Bill Pearis Editor
  • Robby Krieger Singer-Songwriter
  • Buck Jones Música Afro-Baiana, Afro-Bahian Music
  • Gilsons Bahia
  • Joe Lovano Saxophone
  • Yamandu Costa Brazil
  • Celsinho Silva Brazil
  • Mischa Maisky Classical Music
  • Jerry Douglas Country

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

 

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