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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.

 

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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 June Yamagishi:

  • 0 Blues
  • 0 Funk
  • 0 Guitar
  • 0 Jazz
  • 0 New Orleans
  • 0 R&B
  • Curly Strings Folk & Traditional
  • João Rabello Samba
  • Dónal Lunny Record Producer
  • Makaya McCraven Composer
  • Sam Dagher Journalist
  • Melissa Aldana New York City
  • Scott Kettner Percussion
  • Aurino de Jesus Viola Machete
  • Jonathan Scales New York City
  • Badi Assad Brazil
  • Askia Davis Sr. Writer
  • Ali Jackson Composer
  • John Doyle Irish Traditional Music
  • Matt Ulery Jazz
  • June Yamagishi R&B
  • Ricardo Bacelar Jazz Brasileiro, Brazilian Jazz
  • Samuel Organ Guitar
  • Swami Jr. Samba
  • Keyon Harrold Composer
  • Oscar Bolão Author
  • Stephanie Foden Toronto
  • Andrew Gilbert International Music
  • Max ZT Dulcimer Instruction
  • Stacy Dillard Jazz
  • Cristiano Nogueira Chicago
  • Beth Bahia Cohen Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Victor Gama Contemporary Musical Instrument Design
  • Jennifer Koh Classical Music
  • Yoron Israel Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Janine Jansen Classical Music
  • Ronell Johnson Funk
  • Simon Shaheen Oud
  • Carlos Henriquez Northwestern University Faculty
  • Kirk Whalum Memphis, Tennessee
  • Patty Kiss Frevo
  • Cut Worms Brooklyn, NY
  • Joana Choumali Photographer
  • Eduardo Kobra São Paulo
  • Orlando 'Maraca' Valle Flute
  • Rogê Brazil
  • Sam Yahel Organ Instruction
  • Rowney Scott Música Clássica, Classical Music
  • Eddie Kadi Pan-African Culture
  • Plinio Oyò Samba de Roda
  • Aaron Goldberg New York City
  • Paulão 7 Cordas Music Director
  • Dr. Lonnie Smith Jazz
  • Mário Santana Bahia
  • Capinam Poeta, Poet
  • Robert Randolph Steel Guitar
  • Di Freitas Violin
  • Ron McCurdy Writer
  • Kermit Ruffins New Orleans
  • Kiko Horta Accordion
  • Stefano Bollani Composer
  • Fatoumata Diawara Wassoulou
  • H.L. Thompson New York City
  • Jeff Coffin Saxophone
  • Kris Davis New York City
  • Stormzy London
  • Marcus Miller Composer
  • Nguyên Lê Vietnam
  • Dumpstaphunk New Orleans
  • Colm Tóibín Novelist
  • Yvette Holzwarth Multi-Cultural
  • David Sedaris Humor
  • Rowney Scott Saxophone
  • John McLaughlin Jazz Fusion
  • Samuel Organ Guitar
  • Inon Barnatan Piano
  • Christian Sands Piano
  • Bodek Janke World Music
  • Antônio Queiroz Repente
  • Gilsons Salvador
  • JD Allen Jazz
  • Shankar Mahadevan Composer
  • João Bosco Guitar
  • The Umoza Music Project Senga Bay
  • Marcus Teixeira Guitar
  • Dani Deahl Public Speaker
  • Eric Coleman Cinematographer
  • Sharay Reed Bass
  • Jonathan Scales New York City
  • James Poyser Record Producer
  • James Andrews Jazz
  • Asali Solomon Haverford College Faculty
  • Bertram Hand Percussion Performance
  • Diosmar Filho Bahia
  • Danilo Caymmi MPB
  • João Callado Brazilian Jazz
  • Ned Sublette Singer-Songwriter
  • Booker T. Jones Record Producer
  • Renato Braz Singer
  • Jason Parham Writer
  • Jared Jackson Short Stories
  • Lenny Kravitz Songwriter
  • Carlos Blanco Violão Clássico, Classical Guitar
  • Ênio Bernardes Pandeiro
  • Ed Roth Los Angeles
  • Nação Zumbi Funk
  • Mateus Aleluia Bahia
  • Bob Telson Film Scores
  • Janine Jansen Utrecht
  • Bejun Mehta Opera
  • Nara Couto Coreógrafa, Choreographer
  • Dale Bernstein Wet Plate Photography
  • Edsel Gomez Piano
  • Peter Mulvey Singer-Songwriter
  • Lula Moreira Cultural Producer
  • Larissa Fulana de Tal Brasil, Brazil
  • Meddy Gerville Réunion
  • Robby Krieger Painter
  • Riley Baugus Fiddle
  • Hugo Linns Pernambuco
  • Jason Treuting Percussion
  • Gabriel Policarpo Repique Instruction
  • Joe Lovano Author
  • Turíbio Santos Classical Music
  • Shemekia Copeland Gospel
  • Bruce Williams Composer
  • Casa PretaHub Cachoeira Estúdio de Gravação, Recording Studio
  • Django Bates Multi-Instrumentalist
  • André Muato Brazil
  • Gretchen Parlato Singer
  • David Braid Film Scores
  • VJ Gabiru Fotógrafo, Photographer
  • Daniil Trifonov Piano
  • Joey Baron Composer
  • Marcelinho Oliveira Songwriter
  • Michael Formanek Bass
  • Jill Scott Actor
  • Samba de Nicinha Chula
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Shibuya
  • Ronald Bruner Jr. Singer
  • Jeff Coffin Author
  • Susheela Raman London
  • Gui Duvignau São Paulo
  • Papa Mali Singer-Songwriter
  • Ben Harper Reggae
  • Alê Siqueira Record Producer
  • Roque Ferreira Samba de Roda
  • Diosmar Filho Geógrafo, Geographer
  • Nancy Viégas Fotógrafa, Photographer
  • Mart'nália Singer-Songwriter
  • Willy Schwarz Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Chucho Valdés Cuba
  • Will Holshouser Musette
  • Tiganá Santana Salvador
  • Garth Cartwright DJ
  • Towa Tei テイ・トウワ Keyboards
  • Richie Stearns Appalachian Music
  • Romero Lubambo Brazil
  • Tiganá Santana Brasil, Brazil
  • Carl Allen Educator
  • Brady Haran YouTuber
  • Dadá do Trombone Bossa Nova
  • David Castillo Pierce College Faculty
  • Hopkinson Smith Vihuela
  • Shanequa Gay Storyteller
  • Aubrey Johnson Singer
  • Barry Harris New York City
  • Thiago Espírito Santo Jazz Brasileiro, Brazilian Jazz
  • John Waters Journalist
  • José Antonio Escobar Barcelona
  • Saileog Ní Cheannabháin Piano
  • Felipe Guedes Bahia
  • Albin Zak Record Producer
  • Sabine Hossenfelder Physicist
  • Mulatu Astatke Ethio-Jazz
  • John Donohue Writer
  • Questlove Record Producer
  • Kevin Hays Singer-Songwriter
  • Beth Bahia Cohen Viola
  • Mestre Nenel AFROBIZ Salvador
  • Adanya Dunn Toronto
  • Robert Glasper R&B
  • 9Bach Multi-Cultural
  • Imani Winds Classical Music
  • Ana Luisa Barral Choro
  • Quincy Jones Composer
  • Daymé Arocena Composer
  • Arthur Verocai MPB
  • Alessandro Penezzi Violão de Sete
  • Taj Mahal Blues
  • Mário Pam Bahia
  • Siba Veloso Viola Nordestina
  • Alphonso Johnson Jazz
  • Edivaldo Bolagi Produtor Cultural, Cultural Producer
  • Daedelus Los Angeles
  • Tambay Obenson Writer
  • Seu Jorge MPB
  • Michael Cuscuna Writer
  • Isaiah J. Thompson Artistic Director
  • Gui Duvignau Brazil
  • Kaia Kater Folk & Traditional
  • Sam Reider Composer
  • Kaia Kater Banjo
  • Tarus Mateen R&B
  • Ana Moura Portugal
  • Júlio Lemos Guitar
  • Jelly Green Painter
  • Alana Gabriela Salvador
  • Oswaldo Amorim Escola de Música de Brasília Faculty
  • Ken Avis Guitar
  • Barbara Paris Austin, Texas
  • Donny McCaslin Brooklyn, NY
  • Evgeny Kissin Writer
  • Ron Carter Composer
  • Tab Benoit Record Label Owner
  • Dieu-Nalio Chery Haiti
  • Sunna Gunnlaugs Composer
  • Africania Brazil
  • Lenna Bahule São Paulo
  • Neo Muyanga Composer
  • João Bosco MPB
  • Ivan Huol Drums
  • Benny Benack III Trumpet
  • Peter Dasent Piano
  • Danilo Caymmi Samba
  • Yasushi Nakamura Jazz
  • Mestre Nelito Brazil
  • Antonio Sánchez Composer
  • Sebastian Notini Brasil, Brazil
  • Samuel Organ Experimental Rock
  • Greg Ruby Manouche
  • Doug Wamble Composer
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto Experimental Music
  • Benny Benack III Pittsburgh
  • Ballaké Sissoko Mali
  • Alan Brain Writer
  • Serginho Meriti Composer
  • Omer Avital Composer
  • John Doyle Irish Traditional Music
  • Marília Sodré MPB
  • Casa PretaHub Cachoeira Estúdio de Fotografía, Photography Studio
  • Jim Hoke Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Weedie Braimah Jazz
  • Nora Fischer Classical Music
  • Maia Sharp Nashville, Tennessee
  • Jorge Ben Sambalanço
  • Joe Newberry Singer-Songwriter
  • James Strauss Flute
  • Márcio Bahia Brazilian Jazz
  • Alexandre Vieira Bahia
  • David Ngwerume Africa
  • Roy Nathanson Film Scores
  • Horace Bray Singer-Songwriter
  • Niwel Tsumbu Singer
  • Dale Barlow Composer
  • Jahi Sundance Hip-Hop
  • François Zalacain Record Label Owner
  • Geraldine Inoa Writer
  • Jamel Brinkley Writer
  • Giovanni Russonello Jazz
  • Antonio Sánchez Film Scores
  • Timothy Duffy Photographer
  • Spider Stacy Tin Whistle
  • Ari Rosenschein Writer
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Bahia
  • Aaron Parks Composer
  • Gabrielzinho do Irajá Versador
  • Curtis Hasselbring Arranger
  • Antonio Sánchez Jazz
  • Missy Mazolli Opera
  • Logan Richardson Classical Music
  • Karsh Kale कर्ष काळे Composer
  • Don Byron Avant-Garde Jazz
  • Ben Wolfe Bass
  • Art Rosenbaum Illustrator
  • Chico Buarque Brazil
  • Paulo Martelli Alto Guitar
  • João Teoria Brasil, Brazil
  • Kiko Freitas Brazil
  • Manu Chao Multi-Cultural
  • Yvette Holzwarth Contemporary Classical Music
  • Buck Jones Cantor, Singer
  • Gustavo Di Dalva New York City
  • Omar Sosa Vibraphone
  • Oscar Bolão Percussion
  • Keyon Harrold Trumpet
  • Brian Lynch Trumpet
  • Joe Chambers Composer
  • Mary Halvorson Composer
  • Paul McKenna Glasgow
  • Adenor Gondim Salvador
  • Lula Galvão MPB
  • Maria Bethânia Singer
  • Yunior Terry Bass
  • Run the Jewels Rap
  • Gringo Cardia Video Director
  • Cristovão Bastos Samba
  • Plínio Fernandes Choro
  • Tam-Ky Asian-African Foods
  • Spok Frevo Orquestra Pernambuco
  • Pat Metheny Guitar
  • Mateus Aleluia Salvador
  • Adam Rogers New York City
  • Ry Cooder Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Soweto Kinch Rapper
  • Noam Pikelny Nashville, Tennessee
  • Andrew Huang Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Chris Boardman University of Miami Frost School of Music Faculty
  • Mika Mutti Composer
  • Omar Sosa Multi-Cultural
  • Ambrose Akinmusire Jazz
  • Angelique Kidjo Singer-Songwriter
  • Sombrinha Guitar
  • Ian Hubert VFX Artist
  • Germán Garmendia YouTuber
  • Eddie Kadi Congo
  • Brian Stoltz Singer
  • Louis Michot Cajun Music
  • Dale Farmer Screenwriter
  • Mike Compton Country Blues
  • Pedro Martins Choro
  • Edu Lobo Brazil
  • Echezonachukwu Nduka Singer
  • João do Boi Chula
  • Los Muñequitos de Matanzas Rumba
  • Moreno Veloso Rio de Janeiro
  • Fábio Luna Bateria, Drums
  • Berkun Oya Director
  • Júlio Lemos Brazil
  • Jorge Alfredo Brasil, Brazil
  • Jon Otis Singer-Songwriter
  • Morgan Page House
  • Ajeum da Diáspora Brazil
  • Africania Chula
  • J. Cunha Bahia
  • Tab Benoit Blues
  • Joshua Redman Composer
  • Tommy Peoples Fiddle
  • Jack Talty Record Producer
  • Kaia Kater Appalachian Music
  • Cláudio Badega Percussão, Percussion
  • Ari Hoenig Composer
  • Deesha Philyaw Public Speaker
  • Amitava Kumar Literary Critic
  • Fatoumata Diawara Paris
  • Julia Alvarez Writer
  • Jean-Paul Bourelly Avant-Blues-Rock
  • Warren Wolf Percussion
  • Manu Chao Singer-Songwriter
  • Cory Wong Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Paul Anthony Smith Picotage
  • King Britt DJ
  • Wayne Shorter Saxophone
  • Ry Cooder Multi-Cultural
  • Hank Roberts Avant-Garde, Folk, Classical
  • Manu Chao Record Producer

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

 

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