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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.

 

  • Gilmar Gomes
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Matrix

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Gilmar Gomes
  • City/Place: New York City
  • Country: United States
  • Hometown: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Life & Work

  • Bio: Gilmar is a percussionist from Salvador currently living in NYC. He's played and toured with Angélique Kidjo, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Anat Cohen, Richard Bona, Meshell N'degeocello, Alexis Cuadrado, Yerba Buena, Gilberto Gil, Baaba Maal, Rihanna and others.

    Together with his brother he formed Filhos de Jorge, which had a hit in Brazil called Ziriguidum.

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Vimeo Channel: http://vimeo.com/user6628632
  • ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/53G5sNuHluRt7mGPGW8XG0
  • ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/0vai4loQLRR9eGoMwBbM9t

Clips (more may be added)

  • Gilmar Gomes - RETRATO (Official Video)
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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 Gilmar Gomes:

  • 2 Bahia
  • 2 Brazil
  • 2 Guitar
  • 2 Percussion
  • 2 Salvador
  • 2 Singer-Songwriter
  • Robertinho Silva Choro
  • Kirk Whalum Saxophone
  • Stuart Duncan Americana
  • Lula Moreira Samba de Coco
  • Marc-André Hamelin Piano
  • Carl Allen Jazz
  • James Martins Jornalista, Journalist
  • Alessandro Penezzi Samba
  • Cássio Nobre Viola Brasileira
  • Terence Blanchard New Orleans
  • Rosa Passos Salvador
  • Jason Moran Composer
  • Mateus Aleluia Candomblé
  • Lavinia Meijer Classical Music
  • Bejun Mehta Countertenor
  • Mahsa Vahdat Singer
  • Alan Brain Peru
  • Stacy Dillard New York City
  • Peter Dasent Piano
  • Serginho Meriti Samba
  • Lokua Kanza African Music
  • Siba Veloso Pernambuco
  • Marta Sánchez New York City
  • Nação Zumbi Maracatu
  • Edil Pacheco Bahia
  • Cedric Watson Louisiana Creole Music
  • John Edward Hasse Jazz
  • Jim Hoke Saxophone
  • Sophia Deboick Writer
  • Curtis Hasselbring Trombone
  • Frank Beacham Videographer
  • Ivo Perelman Composer
  • Tshepiso Ledwaba Steinway Piano Technician
  • Peter Erskine Record Producer
  • Diosmar Filho Bahia
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Chula
  • Rez Abbasi Indian Classical Music
  • G. Thomas Allen Gospel
  • Fabiana Cozza Singer
  • Marcelinho Oliveira Salvador
  • Saul Williams Rapper
  • Simon Singh Television Producer
  • Walmir Lima Samba
  • Eliane Elias Brazil
  • Nicolas Krassik Rio de Janeiro
  • Paulo Paulelli Bass
  • Jaques Morelenbaum Bossa Nova
  • David Binney Los Angeles
  • James Martin Saxophone
  • Mono/Poly Music Producer
  • Richie Barshay Drums
  • Julia Alvarez Dominican Republic
  • Michael Formanek Composer
  • Alexa Tarantino Jazz
  • Nabih Bulos Violin
  • Pedrito Martinez Batá
  • Larissa Fulana de Tal Brasil, Brazil
  • Brian Blade Drums
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba Composer
  • Laércio de Freitas Arranger
  • Saileog Ní Cheannabháin Fiddle
  • Rosa Cedrón Cello
  • Yosvany Terry Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Avishai Cohen Composer
  • William Skeen USC Thornton School of Music Faculty
  • Nelson Faria Composer
  • Philip Watson Journalist
  • Raynald Colom Flamenco
  • Nahre Sol Piano
  • Ricardo Herz Violin
  • Danilo Brito São Paulo
  • Fernando Brandão Jazz
  • Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah Record Producer
  • Quatuor Ebène Classical Music
  • Peter Dasent Composer
  • Martin Koenig Folk & Traditional
  • Raymundo Sodré Forró
  • Colson Whitehead Literary Critic
  • Swami Jr. Guitar
  • António Zambujo Fado
  • Reena Esmail Contemporary Classical Music
  • Adriene Cruz Tapestry Crochet
  • Urânia Munzanzu Cineasta, Filmmaker
  • Márcio Valverde Singer-Songwriter
  • Dale Barlow Jazz
  • Roberto Mendes Singer-Songwriter
  • Karim Ziad Percussion
  • Nahre Sol Toronto
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Samba Rock
  • Peter Mulvey Americana
  • Chris Acquavella Germany
  • Veronica Swift New York City
  • Awadagin Pratt Classical Music
  • Philip Sherburne Photographer
  • Scott Yanow Writer
  • Renee Rosnes New York City
  • Jussara Silveira Samba
  • Vânia Oliveira Dança Afro
  • Terell Stafford Composer
  • Orrin Evans Jazz
  • Michael Formanek Bass
  • Wayne Shorter Composer
  • Hermeto Pascoal Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Francisco Mela Percussion
  • H.L. Thompson Brazilian Funk
  • Paquito D'Rivera Saxophone
  • Doug Adair Singer-Songwriter
  • David Binney New York City
  • Jamael Dean Piano
  • Iroko Trio Latin American Music
  • George Cables New York City
  • Benoit Fader Keita Electro Music
  • Ibrahim Maalouf Classical Music
  • Kevin Hays Jazz
  • John McLaughlin Jazz
  • Andrew Finn Magill Forró
  • Shemekia Copeland R&B
  • John Zorn Record Label Owner
  • André Becker Saxophone
  • Ajeum da Diáspora Afro-Bahian Cuisine
  • Sarah Jarosz Banjo
  • Issa Malluf Arabic Percussion
  • Ivo Perelman Jazz
  • Capinam Salvador
  • Donald Harrison Composer
  • Masao Fukuda Samba
  • Iroko Trio São Paulo
  • Eivør Pálsdóttir Faroe Islands
  • Eric R. Danton Reporter
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Jazz
  • Lô Borges Belo Horizonte
  • Shanequa Gay Southern Black Tradition
  • Ferenc Nemeth Drumming Instruction
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Sambalanço
  • Ned Sublette Writer
  • Tom Schnabel DJ
  • Alan Bishop Cairo
  • Wilson Simoninha São Paulo
  • Joanna Majoko Zimbabwe
  • Patrice Quinn Los Angeles
  • Orlando Costa Salvador
  • César Orozco New York City
  • Luciano Calazans MPB
  • Beth Bahia Cohen Hardingfele
  • JD Allen Saxophone
  • Dave Jordan New Orleans
  • César Camargo Mariano Record Producer
  • Ana Moura Lisbon
  • Ravi Coltrane Composer
  • Alan Bishop Singer-Songwriter
  • Lula Moreira Documentary Filmmaker
  • Bonerama R&B
  • Bai Kamara Jr. Brussels, Belgium
  • Patricia Janečková Soprano
  • Taylor McFerrin Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Baiba Skride Violin
  • Cathal McNaughton Ireland
  • Horácio Reis Violão Clássico Brasileiro, Brazilian Classical Guitar
  • Karsh Kale कर्ष काळे Singer
  • Bodek Janke Tabla
  • Oscar Peñas Composer
  • Jelly Green England
  • Donny McCaslin Brooklyn, NY
  • Di Freitas Brazil
  • Djuena Tikuna Amazonas
  • Léo Rugero Accordion
  • Xenia França Singer-Songwriter
  • Jay Blakesberg San Francisco
  • Gevorg Dabaghyan Armenian Folk Music
  • Calida Rawles Los Angeles
  • Virgínia Rodrigues Bahia
  • Byron Thomas Piano
  • Timothy Duffy Folklorist
  • Dave Eggers Novelist
  • China Moses R&B
  • Philip Watson Cork
  • Tomoko Omura Composer
  • Vivien Schweitzer Music Critic
  • Joe Chambers New York City
  • Scott Kettner Maracatu
  • Mingo Araújo Composer
  • Fred Hersch Jazz
  • Priscila Castro Pará
  • Nelson Latif São Paulo
  • Bill Pearis Editor
  • Edil Pacheco Brazil
  • Matt Glaser Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Gustavo Caribé Chula
  • Aindrias de Staic Television Presenter
  • Case Watkins Writer
  • Jimmy Greene Gospel
  • Adriene Cruz Portland, Oregon
  • David Hepworth Podcaster
  • Peter Erskine USC Thornton School of Music Faculty
  • Horace Bray Los Angeles
  • Karla Vasquez Cooking Classes
  • Daniil Trifonov Russia
  • Shaun Martin Ropeadope
  • Eduardo Kobra Arte Urbana, Urban Art
  • MicroTrio de Ivan Huol Trio Elétrico
  • Elizabeth LaPrelle Educator
  • Fernando Brandão Composer
  • Ivan Huol Salvador
  • Bob Reynolds Los Angeles
  • Jamz Supernova London
  • Leyla McCalla Folk & Traditional
  • Raymundo Sodré Brazil
  • Paquito D'Rivera Clarinet
  • Wayne Escoffery Saxophone Instruction / Online Classes
  • Zara McFarlane Vocal Coach
  • Giorgi Mikadze გიორგი მიქაძე Jazz
  • Victor Gama Composer
  • Paulo César Figueiredo Jornalista, Journalist
  • Betão Aguiar Rio de Janeiro
  • Antibalas New York City
  • Vivien Schweitzer Piano
  • Eddie Kadi Congo
  • Tarus Mateen R&B
  • Omer Avital Oud
  • Bodek Janke Drums
  • Patty Kiss Bahia
  • Ben Allison Bass
  • Chris Cheek Brooklyn, NY
  • Endea Owens Jazz
  • Rez Abbasi Pakistani Music
  • Aderbal Duarte Guitar
  • Neo Muyanga Writer
  • Hélio Delmiro Samba
  • Nicole Mitchell University of Pittsburgh Faculty
  • Zakir Hussain Multi-Cultural
  • Jon Cowherd Composer
  • Geovanna Costa Samba
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Guitar
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Music Producer
  • Roosevelt Collier Lap Steel Guitar
  • Restaurante Axego Brazil
  • Utar Artun Jazz
  • Michelle Mercer Radio Producer
  • Chris Potter Saxophone
  • David Bragger UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Faculty
  • Victor Gama Multi-Cultural
  • Guillermo Klein New York City
  • Joel Ross Composer
  • Chau do Pife Brazil
  • Jahi Sundance Record Producer
  • Wayne Krantz New York City
  • Third Coast Percussion Chicago, Illinois
  • Bule Bule Samba Rural
  • John Edward Hasse Music Historian
  • Eduardo Kobra Grafiteiro, Graffiti Artist
  • Munyungo Jackson Percussion
  • Toumani Diabaté Kora
  • Cássio Nobre Ethnomusicologist
  • Warren Wolf Jazz
  • David Binney Saxophone Lessons
  • Ben Monder Guitar
  • Curtis Hasselbring Composer
  • Jas Kayser Panama City
  • Massimo Biolcati Brooklyn, NY
  • Robi Botos Toronto
  • Nath Rodrigues Brazil
  • Welson Tremura Latin American Classical Guitar
  • Neymar Dias Brazil
  • Nilze Carvalho Brazil
  • Yvette Holzwarth Film Scores
  • Wouter Kellerman Bansuri
  • Greg Ruby Composer
  • Ryan Keberle Melodica
  • Ferenc Nemeth Composer
  • Lorna Simpson Brooklyn, NY
  • Tom Piazza Novelist
  • Mestre Barachinha Pernambuco
  • Paulinho Fagundes Composer
  • Sombrinha Guitar
  • Richard Galliano Paris, France
  • Shemekia Copeland Gospel
  • Anthony Hervey Trumpet
  • David Binney Composer
  • Joan Chamorro Jazz
  • Antônio Pereira Amazonas
  • Nardis Jazz Club Turkey
  • Tom Zé Bahia
  • John Santos Writer
  • Snigdha Poonam India
  • Chris Thile Classical Music
  • Amilton Godoy Brazil
  • Patricia Janečková Opera
  • Conrad Herwig Rutgers University Faculty
  • Edgar Meyer Bluegrass
  • Manolo Badrena Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Elio Villafranca Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • THE ROOM Shibuya DJs
  • George Porter Jr. Funk
  • Şener Özmen Kurdish Culture
  • Isaiah Sharkey Chicago
  • Neymar Dias Viola Caipira
  • Hot Dougie's Salvador
  • Swami Jr. Samba
  • Rodrigo Amarante Singer-Songwriter
  • Mario Caldato Jr. Bass
  • Elodie Bouny Composer
  • Raynald Colom Jazz
  • Roy Ayers Film Scores
  • Maria Drell Higher Education Professional
  • Edgar Meyer Double Bass
  • Nate Smith Composer
  • Jocelyn Ramirez Chef
  • Paddy Groenland Guitar
  • Orquestra Afrosinfônica Música Afro-Brasileira, Afro-Brazilian Music
  • David Hepworth London
  • Bill Frisell Brooklyn, NY
  • Kurt Andersen Television Writer
  • Neymar Dias São Paulo
  • Morgan Page House
  • Orrin Evans Composer
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Cocktail Bar
  • Ofer Mizrahi Singer-Songwriter
  • John Morrison Hip-Hop
  • Gail Ann Dorsey Singer-Songwriter
  • Guillermo Klein Argentina
  • Issac Delgado Composer
  • Omari Jazz Visual Artist
  • Jussara Silveira Singer
  • Imani Winds New York City
  • Guto Wirtti Choro
  • Rolando Herts Delta State University Faculty
  • Shez Raja Multi-Cultural
  • Marcos Suzano Composer
  • Psoy Korolenko Псой Короленко Russia
  • Leon Bridges Soul
  • Michael Doucet Accordion
  • Ben Wendel Jazz
  • Charles Munka Hong Kong
  • Sarz Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Scotty Apex Singer
  • Case Watkins Cultural-Environmental Geographer
  • Chico Buarque Samba
  • Pedro Aznar Jazz
  • Anouar Brahem Tunis
  • Peter Mulvey Guitar
  • The Bayou Mosquitos Amsterdam
  • Adriano Giffoni MPB
  • Ronaldo Bastos Record Producer
  • Kalani Pe'a Singer-Songwriter
  • Larry Grenadier Basel Music Academy Faculty
  • Courtney Pine Podcaster
  • Tomo Fujita Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Brian Jackson Keyboards
  • Mona Lisa Saloy Dillard University Faculty
  • Thundercat Los Angeles

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

 

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