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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...

 

This 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. Like a chessboard which could have millions of squares, but you can get from any given square to any other in no more than six steps..."

 

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.

 

  • Jonga Cunha
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Matrix

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Jonga Cunha
  • City/Place: Salvador, Bahia
  • Country: Brazil

Life & Work

  • Bio: Jonga Cunha is a musician, producer, and radio presenter. He was one of the creators of Carnival Bloco Eva, and Banda Eva, and was the producer behind the rise of Ivete Sangalo.

    He's also produced Moraes Moreira, Daniela Mercury, Jota Quest, Saulo, Alavontê and others.

    Jonga is the music coordinator for Salvador's music museum, A Cidade da Música da Bahia.

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Instagram: jongacunha
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/JongaCunha

My Writing

  • Publications: Por Trás dos Tambores (Behind the Drums)

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  • 1:57:32
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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 Jonga Cunha:

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  • 4 Bahia
  • 4 Brazil
  • 4 Percussion
  • 4 Radio Presenter
  • 4 Record Producer
  • 4 Salvador

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  • Jeff Tweedy Poet
  • Barry Harris Educator
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  • Martin Koenig Liner Notes
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  • Carlos Malta Saxophone
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  • Liz Dany Choreographer
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  • Melanie Charles Flute
  • Eric Harland Drums
  • Vivien Schweitzer New York City
  • Eivør Pálsdóttir Faroe Islands
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  • Roque Ferreira Chula
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  • Elizabeth LaPrelle Educator
  • Alan Brain Filmmaker
  • Nate Chinen Jazz
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  • Dieu-Nalio Chery Photojournalist
  • Devin Naar Writer
  • Catherine Bent Jazz
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  • Siobhán Peoples Ireland
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  • Peter Evans Experimental Music
  • Tony Trischka Author
  • Alma Deutscher Composer
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  • Casa da Mãe MPB
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  • Benoit Fader Keita Singer-Songwriter
  • Henry Cole Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Miles Okazaki University of Michigan Faculty
  • John Schaefer Radio Presenter
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  • Gab Ferruz Salvador
  • Wayne Escoffery Jazz
  • David Hepworth Podcaster
  • Teresa Cristina Brazil
  • Fábio Luna Flauta, Flute
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  • Joe Lovano Composer
  • Arthur Jafa Sculptor
  • Matt Glaser Jazz
  • Oteil Burbridge Southern Rock
  • Booker T. Jones R&B
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  • Chico César São Paulo
  • Bobby Sanabria Percussion
  • Alicia Keys Singer-Songwriter
  • Randy Lewis Writer
  • Jahi Sundance DJ
  • D.D. Jackson Piano
  • Karim Ziad Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Juliana Ribeiro MPB
  • Aloísio Menezes Bahia
  • Yazhi Guo 郭雅志 Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Geraldine Inoa Playwright
  • Mona Lisa Saloy Louisiana
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  • Zara McFarlane Guitar
  • Jay Blakesberg Photographer
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  • Hugo Linns Viola Caipira
  • Christian Sands Composer
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  • Roy Ayers New York City
  • Melissa Aldana Jazz
  • Leo Genovese Keyboards
  • Seckou Keita Africa
  • Michael Garnice New York City
  • Anouar Brahem Composer
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  • Zebrinha Coreógrafo, Choreographer
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  • Ali Jackson Drums
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  • Derek Sivers Guitar
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  • Ken Avis Music Writer
  • João Teoria Compositor, Composer
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  • Johnny Lorenz Literary Critic
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  • Chick Corea Jazz
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  • Marcus J. Moore Editor
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  • Áurea Martins Rio de Janeiro
  • Flora Purim Brazil
  • Adriano Giffoni Brazilian Jazz
  • Colm Tóibín Literary Critic
  • Gilson Peranzzetta Accordion
  • Dafnis Prieto Cuba
  • Di Freitas Composer
  • Maciel Salú Cavalo Marinho
  • Hugues Mbenda France
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  • Guinha Ramires Guitar
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  • Tommaso Zillio Guitar
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  • Lô Borges Minas Gerais
  • Ana Moura Portugal
  • Michael Pipoquinha Brazilian Jazz
  • Seu Jorge MPB
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  • LaTasha Lee Soul
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  • Cinho Damatta Brasil, Brazil
  • Denzel Curry Rapper
  • Ashley Page Music Management
  • Cristiano Nogueira Brazil
  • Omer Avital Composer
  • Leandro Afonso Film Editor
  • André Mehmari Brazil
  • Parker Ighile Singer-Songwriter
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  • Andrew Gilbert Berkeley, California
  • Arthur Verocai MPB
  • Dermot Hussey Jamaica
  • Sombrinha Samba
  • Alfredo Del-Penho Samba
  • Gringo Cardia Set Designer
  • Steve Lehman Saxophone Instructor
  • Martyn Record Label Owner
  • Edsel Gomez New York City
  • Samba de Nicinha Bahia
  • Paulo César Figueiredo Produtor Cultural, Cultural Producer
  • Yasushi Nakamura Composer
  • Elio Villafranca Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Lynn Nottage Columbia University Faculty
  • Caridad De La Luz Puerto Rico
  • Joshua Abrams Theater Scores
  • Gian Correa Violão de Sete
  • Art Rosenbaum Illustrator
  • Milford Graves Composer
  • Zara McFarlane Jazz
  • Andrew Finn Magill Appalachian Music
  • Esperanza Spalding Jazz
  • Brian Blade Composer
  • Chano Domínguez Piano
  • Béla Fleck Multi-Cultural
  • MicroTrio de Ivan Huol Trio Elétrico
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  • David Sacks Vocals
  • Danilo Pérez Piano
  • Baiba Skride Violin
  • Fernando César Composer
  • Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram Singer
  • Leandro Afonso Screenwriter
  • Milton Primo Brazil
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  • Christopher Seneca Diplomat
  • Emmet Cohen Piano
  • Keshav Batish Tabla
  • Matthew F Fisher Collaborative Artist
  • Luizinho Assis Piano
  • Alain Mabanckou Africa
  • João Teoria Bahia
  • Mário Santana Brazil
  • Richard Rothstein Author
  • Jocelyn Ramirez Private Group Cooking Classes
  • Leonardo Mendes São Paulo
  • Thomas Àdes Opera
  • Louis Michot Record Label Owner
  • Tom Schnabel DJ
  • Germán Garmendia Comedian
  • Ana Luisa Barral Mandolin
  • Steve McKeever Hidden Beach Recordings
  • Isaiah Sharkey Guitar
  • Ferenc Nemeth Drums
  • Joey Baron New York City
  • Cláudio Badega Salvador
  • Trilok Gurtu Drums
  • Restaurante Axego Restaurant
  • Nego Álvaro Percussion
  • Leo Genovese Jazz
  • Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin Author
  • Jau Samba Reggae
  • Andrew Huang Record Producer
  • Nelson Cerqueira Salvador
  • Horace Bray Guitar
  • Alana Gabriela Percussão, Percussion
  • Rita Batista Jornalista, Journalist

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