This is a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes (people) inside it are — mirroring human society — within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable steps away from everybody else in the arts world, and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:
THIS MATRIX, THOUGH BRAZIL-BORN, IS UNIVERSAL
This Judith Hill matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Judith Hill.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Judith Hill (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Judith Hill's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
- → Routes by The Matrix
Who & Where
- Name: Judith Hill
- City/Place: Pasadina, California
- Country: United States
Life & Work
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Bio:
Judith Hill has been praised by Rolling Stone for her “stellar powerhouse vocals.” In addition to penning and performing her own material, Judith – who wrote her first song at the age of four – has backed such artists as Stevie Wonder and the late Michael Jackson. Hers is one of the stories told in director Morgan Neville’s acclaimed 20 Feet From Stardom, a film that shines the spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century. The film has won the Film Critics Award for Best Documentary and an Academy Award for Best Documentary. The film also won the 2015 Grammy for Best Music Film. Hill, who was also featured on the film’s soundtrack, was a contestant on season four of “The Voice.” Judith has already garnered much praise for her live performance as opener for Josh Groban, John Legend and Prince both in the US and the UK.
Judith Hill’s debut album, “Back In Time,” produced by herself & Prince is out now on NPG Records.
Media & Markets
- ▶ Buy My Music (downloads/CDs/DVDs): http://www.judithhill.com/back-time-cd/
- ▶ Twitter: Judith_Hill
- ▶ Instagram: judithgloryhill
- ▶ Website: http://www.judithhill.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ju2550ju
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UC5mhVDabCzRkLb7YuJ7Houw
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5YA3p4xEVIIzWimNGaOV6Q
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/5huXDLGFyTBjbtYxjilbJ1
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/0Z2c0HaNHH435edbMw684A
- ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/298hThQY23PLAb0o5KJjtN
- ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/1SdFVuDHVgzRPwFZlgCwgf
- ▶ Spotify 6: http://open.spotify.com/album/5RrM30cZvwpI8HXi27TpYt
Clips (more may be added)
THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' 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... The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum...it sings!
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, 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 specializes in.
MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):
