João Bosco
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Name:
João Bosco
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City/Place:
Rio de Janeiro
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Country:
Brazil
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Hometown:
Ponte Nova, Mina Gerais
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Bio:
Há uma suspeita de que a escassez de cabelos na cabeça influi na quantidade do sono. Enquanto isso meu nariz aponta para a linha do nada onde tudo se reparte em idéias, ilhas e continentes. Meus olhos confirmam tudo. A minha boca é toda ouvidos para o meu coração. Os meus ouvidos atentam para outras bocas.
Amamentado pelo meu violão, moro na estrada. Sem saber quem sou e nem porque vim, eu vou. Da primeira vez que nasci, lá pelo ano de 1946, trouxe comigo uma grande alegria para o meu pai que até aquele momento contabilizava o feito de cinco moças e mais os olhares interrogativos e desconfiados da colônia árabe pontenovense. Como primeiro filho homem ajudei em sua redenção.
Cresci em meio aos matagais, trilhas, mata-burro, veredas e grutas; descalço, tive os pés regulados para andar por esses caminhos ao som de pios de uma fauna alegre e ingênua; matuto, vivia contando estrelas, ouvindo carrilhões e sonhava muito.
Quando os libaneses se reuniam em nossa casa, se entendiam naquela língua de quem gosta de montar em camelo. Eu achava aquilo meio estranho. Era como clamar no deserto.
Logo depois eu aprendi a fumar, matar as aulas de um Colégio Salesiano, e fui apresentado a um anjo de grande topete negro, envergado sobre uma guitarra, cuja canção dizia para mim: Vai João, ser torto na vida.
Passei pela terra de Aleijadinho e o meu coração que até então era vadio, ficou barroco. Subi e desci ladeiras. Descobri que na vida existem mais hipóteses que teoremas. Supor é melhor que demonstrar e na dúvida mora a vontade de continuar.
Foi assim que deixei a memória, o patrimônio de séculos construídos pelas mãos do homem, o calçamento em forma de pé-de-moleque, o silêncio das almas, o barulho interno de minha alma. Calcei os sapatos, peguei o trem e vim pra cá, onde as ruas são largas, retas e simétricas; as sirenes são cortantes e os pastores das almas são barulhentos. O vizinho não mora ao lado, as árvores são introvertidas e os pios das aves são intrigantes.
Quando nasci da segunda vez, o meu coração bateu aflito. Mas logo que vi o mar, serenei pois tudo que havia existido voltou subitamente e volta sempre quando estou caminhando no calçadão que vai do Leblon ao Arpoador. Aí, o que foi e o que poderia vir a a ser andam comigo, incluindo as sementes, o pão de queijo e a goiabada cascão.
Os meus filhos Francisco e Júlia nasceram aqui mesmo cujo padroeiro (São Sebastião) é o mesmo da minha cidade natal. Ângela, minha companheira inseparável em todas essas andanças e mãe dos nossos filhos, foi criada em Ponte Nova mas também é natural da Cidade Maravilhosa. Bem que eu devia ter desconfiado que aquelas Congadas e Folias me trariam até Clementina de Jesus. O meu coração ficou ativo e cantou: “Atividade no Abano / Antes que o fogo se apague”.
Eu sou do signo de Câncer, por isso prefiro uma toca, entretanto aprendi a contrariar o meu signo várias vezes, por isso gosto tanto de viajar por esse mundo afora, só não consigo contrariar o meu signo de mineiro.
Eu sei que esse deveria ser um retrato pintado ou desenhado, falado ou escrito do autor pelo próprio autor, mas quando se trata de revelar-me, prefiro assim, meio de lado (do jeito que a gente anda no samba), no lugar de frente ou verso. O silêncio, a liberdade e a terceira margem do rio foram inventados em Minas Gerais.
O amor é o meu dia de folga. Meu melhor trabalho é a minha família, minha alegria é Rubro-Negra. Quem sabe de mim é o meu violão. Nesse fim de semana, se eu não for pra Belô, a gente se cruza do calçadão.
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Few people know that the Bay of All Saints was final port-of-call for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. And few people know the transcendence these people, and their descendents, wrought. 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 all over the planet.
This Integrated Global Creative Economy (we invented the concept) uncoils from Brazil's sprawling Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian cultural matrix... expanding like the canopy of a rainforest tree rooted in Bahia, branches spreading to embrace the entire world...
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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.
Salvador is our base. If you plan to visit Bahia, there are some things you should probably know and you should first visit:
www.salvadorbahiabrazil.com
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