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  • @ Ground Zero
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  • If You Can't Stand the Heat
  • Harlem to Bahia to the Planet
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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.

 

  • Júlio Caldas
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Criador acima/Creator above

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Júlio Caldas
  • City/Place: Salvador, Bahia
  • Country: Brazil

Life & Work

  • Bio: Júlio Caldas plays strung instruments, from the most Brazilian traditional to the guitarra baiana made famous in the carnival of Salvador, Bahia.

Contact Information

  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: +55 71 9 9603-4095

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Buy My Music: (downloads/CDs/DVDs) http://www.tratore.com.br/um_artista.php?id=16370
  • ▶ Instagram: julio_caldas_guitarras
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/JulioCaldas
  • ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UChiNQlUwGo0yGM26ILubmmw
  • ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/562FRoMmSF7ne8YK9RiUb4
  • ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/0wV6NSvVp2x3fLIJsx0IiY
  • ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/2kyrKvm5e3RiovVyzEj8A8
  • ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/3z7jvRsvNVO6qsczegnJbU

Clips (more may be added)

  • 0:13:08
    Arte em toda parte - Violas Brasileiras - Viola Machete - Julio Caldas
    By Júlio Caldas
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  • 2:17
    Atraente (Chiquinha Gonzaga) - Julio Caldas
    By Júlio Caldas
    28 views
  • 4:36
    Julio Caldas - Meu Santo | Sofar Salvador
    By Júlio Caldas
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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 Júlio Caldas:

  • 3 Bahia
  • 3 Bandolim, Mandolin
  • 3 Brasil, Brazil
  • 3 Compositor, Songwriter
  • 3 Guitarra Baiana
  • 3 Produtor de Discos, Record Producer
  • 3 Salvador
  • 3 Viola Caipira
  • 3 Viola Machete
  • 3 Violão, Guitar
  • Andrés Prado Universidad Católica del Perú Faculty
  • Mika Mutti Salvador
  • Yvette Holzwarth Violin
  • Victor Gama Luanda
  • Byron Thomas Keyboards
  • Marcelo Caldi Brazil
  • Jake Oleson Brooklyn, NY
  • Lolis Eric Elie New Orleans
  • Benjamin Grosvenor United Kingdom
  • Yasushi Nakamura Japan
  • John Patitucci Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • 9Bach Wales
  • Welson Tremura Singer
  • Raynald Colom Composer
  • Gian Correa Guitar
  • Zé Luíz Nascimento Paris
  • Fernando Brandão Samba
  • Victor Wooten Bass
  • Judith Hill R&B
  • Burhan Öçal Bendir
  • Paul Mahern Singer-Songwriter
  • Lucian Ban Piano
  • Zeca Pagodinho Singer-Songwriter
  • Bule Bule Salvador
  • Gabrielzinho do Irajá Versador
  • Nath Rodrigues Belo Horizonte
  • Atlantic Brass Quintet Jazz
  • John Zorn Composer
  • Missy Mazolli Classical Music
  • Alain Mabanckou Writer
  • Marcos Sacramento Brazil
  • Pedrito Martinez Batá
  • Zakir Hussain Hindustani Classical Music
  • Mikki Kunttu Set Designer
  • Gêge Nagô Brazil
  • James Andrews Songwriter
  • Yunior Terry Cuba
  • Román Díaz Cuba
  • Luis Perdomo Composer
  • Marko Djordjevic Drums
  • Mohamed Diab Egypt
  • Jamael Dean Piano
  • Robi Botos Composer
  • Ramita Navai London
  • Darryl Hall Bass
  • Vivien Schweitzer New York City
  • Bill Pearis Journalist
  • Joey Baron Jazz
  • Damon Albarn Theater Composer
  • Ronell Johnson Brass Band
  • McIntosh County Shouters Ring Shouts
  • Sarah Hanahan Juilliard Student
  • Caroline Keane Irish Traditional Music
  • Shannon Ali Liner Notes
  • Jamel Brinkley Writer
  • Jonga Cunha Radio Presenter
  • Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin Author
  • Adam Cruz New York City
  • Brandon Coleman Jazz, Funk, R&B, Soul
  • Jacám Manricks Composer
  • Demond Melancon Louisiana
  • Toninho Horta Belo Horizonte
  • Johnny Lorenz Translator
  • Garth Cartwright DJ
  • Eduardo Kobra Muralista, Muralist
  • Ricardo Herz MPB
  • Swami Jr. Violão de Sete
  • Donald Harrison Mardi Gras Indian
  • Kris Davis Jazz
  • Margareth Menezes Bahia
  • Şener Özmen Turkey
  • Tom Schnabel DJ
  • Ron Blake Composer
  • Marc Ribot Writer
  • Aneesa Strings Singer
  • Andrés Beeuwsaert Buenos Aires
  • Celsinho Silva Record Producer
  • Andrés Prado Composer
  • Roberta Sá Samba
  • Kengo Kuma Japan
  • Tia Fuller Composer
  • Bobby Sanabria Percussion
  • Oteil Burbridge Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Welson Tremura Latin American Classical Guitar
  • Meshell Ndegeocello Bass
  • Mulatu Astatke Ethio-Jazz
  • Cassandra Osei Brazilianist
  • Woody Mann Folk & Traditional
  • Martin Hayes Ireland
  • Munir Hossn Composer
  • Alicia Keys Piano
  • Jason Reynolds Washington, D.C.
  • Mary Halvorson Brooklyn, NY
  • Derrick Hodge Record Producer
  • Doug Adair Braver Angels
  • Donna Leon Crime Novels
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba University of Miami Frost School of Music Faculty
  • Arturo Sandoval Composer
  • Cedric Watson Louisiana Creole Music
  • Sarah Jarosz Singer-Songwriter
  • Maria Rita Bossa Nova
  • Lula Galvão Guitar
  • Terell Stafford Jazz
  • Ken Coleman Essayist
  • Jorge Washington Salvador
  • Ethan Iverson Piano
  • Swizz Beatz DJ
  • Anders Osborne Americana
  • Cláudio Badega Bahia
  • Cara Stacey North-West University Faculty
  • Richie Stearns Appalachian Music
  • Julia Alvarez Novelist
  • Jurandir Santana Salvador
  • JD Allen Saxophone
  • Keshav Batish Multi-Cultural
  • Elisa Goritzki Bahia
  • Gregory Hutchinson Drum Clinics
  • D.D. Jackson Piano
  • Jaleel Shaw Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Papa Grows Funk Funk
  • Sean Jones Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute Faculty
  • Hua Hsu Vassar College Faculty
  • Oscar Peñas Barcelona
  • ANNA Brazil
  • Jeremy Pelt Trumpet
  • Emmet Cohen Composer
  • Tessa Hadley Writer
  • Shemekia Copeland Singer
  • Cássio Nobre Guitar
  • Muri Assunção Rio de Janeiro
  • Marc Ribot Soul
  • Dónal Lunny Irish Traditional Music
  • Jorge Alfredo Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Bruce Williams Saxophone
  • Antonio García Film Scores
  • Missy Mazolli New York City
  • Safy-Hallan Farah Writer
  • Alex Conde Piano
  • Zé Luíz Nascimento Drums
  • Luizinho Assis Produtor Musical, Music Producer
  • Adam O'Farrill Multi-Cultural
  • Mazz Swift Brooklyn, NY
  • Vijay Iyer Jazz
  • Siba Veloso Singer
  • PATRICKTOR4 Brasil, Brazil
  • Maria Nunes Trinidad
  • Banning Eyre Photographer
  • Rosângela Silvestre Brazil
  • Christian Sands Piano
  • Corey Henry New Orleans
  • The Bayou Mosquitos Cajun Music
  • Marcos Suzano Brazil
  • Bodek Janke Contemporary Classical Music
  • Daniel Owoseni Ajala Lagos
  • Pierre Onassis Música AFRO
  • Lavinia Meijer Classical Music
  • Sameer Gupta Jazz
  • Miroslav Tadić Balkan Music
  • Mestre Nelito Samba
  • Alphonso Johnson CalArts Music Faculty
  • Conrad Herwig Jazz
  • Andrew Huang Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Alma Deutscher Classical Music
  • Demond Melancon New Orleans
  • Clint Smith Writer
  • NIcholas Casey New York Times
  • Allen Morrison Writer
  • Martín Sued Composer
  • Jeff 'Tain' Watts Jazz
  • Sunna Gunnlaugs Jazz
  • Stacy Dillard New York City
  • Henry Cole Drums
  • Oscar Bolão Choro
  • Tommy Peoples Ireland
  • Joel Guzmán Tejano
  • David Ngwerume Harare
  • Camille Thurman Bass Clarinet
  • Oteil Burbridge Bass
  • João Callado Painter
  • Natan Drubi Samba
  • Armen Donelian Piano
  • James Poyser Film Scores
  • Derek Sivers Entrepreneur
  • Gino Banks Mumbai
  • Frank Negrão Bass
  • Kurt Rosenwinkel Jazz
  • Marilda Santanna Salvador
  • Steve Lehman Composer
  • Mahsa Vahdat Iran
  • Casa da Mãe MPB
  • Shamarr Allen Funk
  • Marcel Powell MPB
  • Tonynho dos Santos Trompete, Trumpet
  • A-KILL Chennai
  • McCoy Mrubata Composer
  • Alex Hargreaves Fiddle
  • Melissa Aldana Jazz
  • Ana Luisa Barral Bandolim
  • Lô Borges Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Damon Albarn Multi-Instrumentalist
  • David Virelles Cuba
  • Virgínia Rodrigues Singer
  • Jeffrey Boakye Educator
  • Lenna Bahule Mozambique
  • Fred Dantas Big Band Leader
  • Jon Cowherd Record Producer
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba Composer
  • Al Kooper Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Gary Lutz Poet
  • Jeff Tweedy Singer-Songwriter
  • Jan Ramsey Cajun Music
  • Simon Shaheen Oud
  • Matt Parker Mathematics
  • Echezonachukwu Nduka Singer
  • David Castillo Los Angeles
  • Joatan Nascimento Salvador
  • Joe Chambers Drums
  • Gêge Nagô Cachoeira
  • Aditya Prakash Los Angeles
  • Ben Paris Writer
  • Mario Caldato Jr. Brazil
  • J. Cunha Figurinista, Costume Designer
  • Ben Hazleton Indian Classical Music
  • Elizabeth LaPrelle Actor
  • Simon Shaheen Composer
  • Philip Glass New York City
  • Tambay Obenson Writer
  • Robert Glasper Jazz
  • Archie Shepp Pianist
  • Gerônimo Santana MPB
  • Zebrinha Candomblé
  • Roy Germano Filmmaker
  • João Camarero Brazil
  • Plamen Karadonev Jazz
  • Frank Beacham Journalist
  • Barry Harris Educator
  • Eamonn Flynn R&B
  • Nancy Viégas Designer Gráfico, Graphic Designer
  • Alessandro Penezzi São Paulo
  • Lydia R. Diamond Playwright
  • Byron Thomas Programmer
  • Ben Harper Singer-Songwriter
  • Larry Achiampong London
  • Sombrinha Samba
  • Sara Gazarek Singer
  • David Sacks Vocals
  • 9Bach Multi-Cultural
  • Aruán Ortiz Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Jason Marsalis New Orleans
  • Nels Cline Guitar
  • Armen Donelian Multi-Cultural
  • Richard Galliano Choro
  • Jon Cowherd Jazz
  • Taylor Ashton Vancouver
  • Kurt Rosenwinkel Guitar
  • Herbie Hancock Jazz
  • Stomu Takeishi Bass
  • Ayrson Heráclito Bahia
  • Martin Hayes Fiddle
  • Eric Bogle Singer-Songwriter
  • Miho Hazama New York City
  • Pedro Martins Brasília
  • Keyon Harrold Record Producer
  • Kirk Whalum Flute
  • Eliane Elias MPB
  • Patty Kiss Frevo
  • António Zambujo Portugal
  • Billy Strings Americana
  • Jimmy Greene Saxophone
  • John Francis Flynn Rough Trade, River Lea
  • Mokhtar Samba Author
  • Berkun Oya Turkey
  • Nardis Jazz Club Galata
  • Myron Walden Recorder
  • Aurino de Jesus Brazil
  • Steve Bailey Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Robert Randolph Steel Guitar
  • David Fiuczynski Multi-Cultural
  • João Luiz MPB
  • Marquis Hill Composer
  • Anissa Senoussi VFX Artist
  • Dave Douglas Festival Director
  • Ron Miles Trumpet
  • Marc Johnson New York City
  • Mark Turner Saxophone
  • Áurea Martins Rio de Janeiro
  • Anthony Coleman Piano
  • Léo Rugero Accordion
  • Makaya McCraven Composer
  • Gord Sheard Multi-Cultural
  • Luíz Paixão Brazil
  • Brian Q. Torff Fairfield University Faculty
  • Marília Sodré Violão, Guitar
  • Dan Trueman New Instrument Creator
  • Capitão Corisco Brazil
  • Rick Beato Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Eliane Elias Classical Music
  • Arto Lindsay Record Producer
  • Paquito D'Rivera Havana
  • Carlos Blanco Violão Clássico, Classical Guitar
  • Chad Taylor Drums
  • Matt Garrison App Developer
  • Tierra Whack Singer-Songwriter
  • Jill Scott Neo Soul
  • Mingus Big Band Jazz
  • Orrin Evans Record Label Owner
  • Alan Williams Furniture
  • Linda Sikhakhane Composer
  • Norah Jones Singer-Songwriter
  • NIcholas Casey Writer
  • David Simon Baltimore, Maryland
  • Mateus Alves Pernambuco
  • Alex Clark Documentary Filmmaker
  • Molly Tuttle Nashville, Tennessee
  • Jason Moran Composer
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Salvador
  • Mandla Buthelezi Jazz
  • Cassie Kinoshi Composer
  • John Morrison Music Journalist
  • Little Simz Hip-Hop
  • Luizinho do Jêje Candomblé
  • Lilli Lewis New Orleans
  • Inaicyra Falcão Faculdade da UNICAMP/UNICAMP Faculty
  • Wayne Escoffery Jazz
  • Frank Beacham Storyteller
  • Russell Malone Jazz
  • Eliane Elias New York City
  • Roberto Fonseca Havana
  • Lina Lapelytė Installation Artist
  • Gilmar Gomes Percussion
  • Munir Hossn Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Milton Primo Chula
  • Jon Batiste Piano
  • Mary Stallings Jazz
  • Stephanie Foden Documentary Photographer
  • Dónal Lunny Songwriter
  • Angel Bat Dawid Singer
  • Yosvany Terry Percussion
  • David Bragger Banjo Instruction
  • Andrew Huang YouTuber
  • Scott Devine Bass
  • Lakecia Benjamin Composer
  • Melanie Charles R&B
  • João Luiz Choro
  • Alegre Corrêa Berimbau
  • Casa da Mãe Espaço Cultural/Cultural Space
  • Walter Smith III Saxophone
  • Nettrice R. Gaskins Writer
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Dance Club
  • Robi Botos Composer

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

 

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