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 Kaia Kater 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 Kaia Kater.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Kaia Kater (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Kaia Kater's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
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Who & Where
- Name: Kaia Kater
- City/Place: Toronto
- Country: Canada
Life & Work
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Bio:
A Montreal-born Grenadian-Canadian, Kaia Kater grew up between two worlds: her family’s deep ties to folk music and the years she spent soaking up Appalachian music in West Virginia. Her old-time banjo-picking skills, deft arrangements, and songwriting abilities have landed her in the spotlight in North America and the UK, garnering critical acclaim from outlets such as NPR, CBC Radio, Rolling Stone, BBC Music, and No Depression.
Kaia started her career early, crafting her first EP Old Soul (2013) when she was just out of high school. Since then, she’s gone on to release two more albums, Sorrow Bound (2015) and Nine Pin (2016). Her second album wove between hard-hitting songs touching on social issues like the Black Lives Matter movement (“Rising Down”) and more personal narratives speaking to life and love in the digital age (“Saint Elizabeth”). Nine Pin won a Canadian Folk Music Award, a Stingray Rising Star Award and sent Kaia on an 18-month touring journey from Ireland to Iowa, including stops at The Kennedy Center, Hillside Festival and London's O2 Shepherd's Bush. For her third album, Grenades (October 2018, Folkways/acronym Records), she took a decidedly different direction, choosing to lean into a wider array of sounds and styles, in order to convey a wider array of emotions and topics, most notably her paternal ancestry. Grenades has been nominated for a 2019 JUNO award for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year.
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
Booking Canada:
Paquin Artist Agency
STEVE BUTLER
steve@paquinartistsagency.com
Booking USA & Mexico:
Quicksilver Productions
MARTHA STRACENER-DANTZIC (East)
ROB MILLLER (West)
www.quicksilverproductions.net/artist/kaia-kater/
Booking UK:
Unique Gravity
MARK ANSTEY
www.uniquegravity.co.uk
Media Canada (publicity, radio, TV):
Killbeat
KEN BEATTIE
www.killbeatmusic.com
Media USA (publicity):
Shore Fire
www.shorefire.com
Smithsonian Folkways
www.folkways.si.edu
Media USA (radio):WNS Group
BRAD HUNT
Media UK-Europe (publicity, radio, TV):
Evans Above PR
Lizzie Evans
www.evansabovepr.com
Management and all other inquiries:
Mavens Music
http://www.mavensmusic.ca
tamara AT mavens music.ca
Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: kaiakater
- ▶ Instagram: kaiakater
- ▶ Website: http://www.kaiakater.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKysl1Q3oBOmyfsWnqFe5gA
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCu-rfgFpWwqZhUOJLIgqZyA
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5L8YBDqmTSCUoXrRcEwaMG
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/23c0nLkSbQ8ZbfMWo8sqCF
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/6Nqb3BPmH4xpzjqJs14W8a
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
"...plaintive, mesmerizing...writes and performs with the skill of a folk-circuit veteran..." -Rolling Stone
"Where bluegrass meets Nina Simone" - The Guardian
"You want some authenticity in your folk music or bluegrass – I give you Kaia Kater." -No Depression
"A star in the making..."
-Folk Alley
“...One of the most remarkable Canadian folk records in some time...Kater's music is somehow ancient and brand new at the same time.”
-Tom Power, CBC Radio 2
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"):
