Lenna Bahule
This Brazilian cultural matrix positions Lenna Bahule globally... Curation
CURATION
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by Augmented Matrix
The Integrated Global Creative Economy
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Name:
Lenna Bahule
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City/Place:
São Paulo
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Country:
Brazil
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Hometown:
Maputo, Mozambique
Life & Work
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Bio:
Cantora, arte educadora e ativista cultural, natural de Maputo, Moçambique. Hoje transita entre o seu país de origem e o Brasil mergulhada em constante pesquisa e intercâmbio com as afro-culturas e movimentos sociais de ambos países.
No Brasil, fundamentou sua pesquisa sobre a música vocal e diferentes caminhos para o uso da voz e do corpo como instrumento musical e de expressão artística.
O histórico de sua carreira musical conta com encontros e colaborações locais de diferentes diásporas como Cheny Wa Gune (Moçambique), Stewart Sukuma (Moçambique), Mário Laginha (Portugal), Mû Mbana (Guiné Bissau), Virginia Rodrigues (Brasil), Benjamim Taubkin (Brasil), Kastrup (Brasil), Mateus Aleluia (Brasil), o escritor e seu conterrâneo Mia Couto entre tantos outros.
Atualmente, além de suas apresentações SOLO, lidera o projeto de música vocal NÔMADE, homônimo ao seu primeiro disco autoral, o duo TAUBKIN & BAHULE, em parceria com o baixista paulistano, João Taubkin. Como arte educadora Lenna orienta e conduz desde 2013, atividades relacionadas ao canto em grupo, corpo, voz e movimento e repertório da cultura popular de Moçambique (jogos, brincadeiras e cancioneiro popular). É também Embaixadora da causa "SOMOS MOÇAMBIQUE" que surgiu em apoio às vítimas dos dois ciclones que atingiram o centro e norte do país, no começo de 2019, onde reuniu mais de 60 artistas para um concerto beneficente em parceria com a Connecting Dots, Casa Natura Musical e a Cruz Vermelha.
Lenna Bahule started her training in music at the age of five, having joined the National School of Music (ENM) in Maputo- Mozambique where she was born. Since 2012, based in São Paulo, she has based her research on vocal music and different ways to use voice and body as a musical instrument and artistic expression. She studied and participated in exchange activities and study groups with pioneering artists of the various techniques that support this research, such as: Fernando Barba, Stênio Mendes, Zuza Gonçalves, Pedro Consorte, Ronaldo dos Santos, Tiago Pinheiro, Tiago Pinheiro, Georgia Dias, Wagner Barbosa, Sílvia Goes, Eleni Vosniadou (GRE), Rhiannon (USA), Santiago Vasquez (ARG), Guillermo Rozenthuler (UK).
In private lessons and group meetings, Lenna guides singers and choral / vocal groups, developing creative and expressive expansion work, using some free improvisation techniques, body awareness, musical games and jokes from the universe of body music, circlesong and signal conducting, and an introductory work on the repertoire of Mozambique's vocal music.
In the area of art education, she researches and teaches a workshop on games, games, songs and children's and popular dances from her homeland. She has taught this workshop in several places such as: Instituto Brincante, Casa do Brincar, Teca Oficina de Música, Sesc’s, among others.
She collaborated with artists such as Angelo Mundy (Abrigação), Luiz Tatit (Words and Dreams), Jurema Paes (Mestiça), Benjamim Taubkin, João Taubkin and Itamar Doari (O Pequeno Milagre de Cada Dia) and shared the stage with artists like Na Ozzetti , Juçara Marçal, Marcelo Pretto, Clarianas, Mu Mbana (GNB), among others.
She performed with the Youth Choir of the State (EMESP) and partnered on the soundtrack and musical direction of the play accessible to the blind and deaf "FEIO" by the collective GRÃO, which in 2016 won first place in the "Premio de SP de incentivo ao teatro" children and young people and the best show of inclusion and accessibility by APCA.
He participated in some literature meetings with Mia Couto, at the launch of his last book “Sombras da Água” according to the book of her trilogy “As Areias do Imperador”.
Currently, in addition to her presentations "SOLO", she has just released his first CD entitled NÔMADE "which is part of the list of the 100 best albums of 2016 by the website Embrulhador.
She's a part of the South African dance group, GUMBOOT Dance Brasil as a dancer and as a musical director.
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There are certain countries, the names of which fire the popular imagination. Brazil is one of them; an amalgam of primitive and sophisticated, jungle and elegance, luscious jazz harmonics — there’s no other place like it in the world. And while Rio de Janeiro, or its fame anyway, tends toward the sophisticated end of the spectrum, Bahia bends toward the atavistic…
Have you 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 (the Bahian Recôncavo was final port-of-call for more enslaved human beings than any other place throughout the entirety of mankind’s existence on this planet), one must be led to the inevitable conclusion that one is in a place unique to history, and to the present.
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.
Brazil 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.
That's where this Matrix begins:
Wolfram MathWorld
The idea is simple, powerful, and egalitarian: To propagate for them, the Matrix must propagate for all. Most in the world are within six degrees of us. The concept of a "small world" network (see Wolfram above) applies here, placing artists from the Recôncavo and the sertão, from Salvador... from Brooklyn, Berlin and Mombassa... musicians, writers, filmmakers... clicks (recommendations) away from their peers all over the planet.
This Integrated Global Creative Economy (we invented the concept) uncoils from Brazil's sprawling Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian cultural matrix... expanding like the canopy of a rainforest tree rooted in Bahia, branches spreading to embrace the entire world...
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Great culture is great power.
And in a small world great things are possible.
Alicia Svigals
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers (BOSTON): Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory ... Former personal recording engineer for Prince; "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd Webber (LONDON): Premier cellist in UK; brother of Andrew (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad (RIO DE JANEIRO/CHICAGO): Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze (LOS ANGELES): manager, Kamasi Washington
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
"Very nice! Thank you for this. Warmest regards and wishing much success for the project! Matt"
—Son of Jimmy Garrison (bass for John Coltrane, Bill Evans...); plays with Herbie Hancock and other greats...
I opened the shop in Salvador, Bahia in 2005 in order to create an outlet to the wider world for magnificent Brazilian musicians.
David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR found us (above), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (he's a huge jazz fan), David Byrne, Oscar Castro-Neves... Spike Lee walked past the place while I was sitting on the stoop across the street drinking beer and listening to samba from the speaker in the window...
But we weren't exactly easy for the world-at-large to get to. So in order to extend the place's ethos I transformed the site associated with it into a network wherein Brazilian musicians I knew would recommend other Brazilian musicians, who would recommend others...
And as I anticipated, the chalky hand of God-as-mathematician intervened: In human society — per the small-world phenomenon — most of the billions of us on earth are within some 6 or fewer degrees of each other. Likewise, within a network of interlinked artists as I've described above, most of these artists will in the same manner be at most a handful of steps away from each other.
So then, all that's necessary to put the Brazilians within possible purview of the wide wide world is to include them among a wide wide range of artists around that world.
If, for example, Quincy Jones is inside the matrix, then anybody on his page — whether they be accessing from a campus in L.A., a pub in Dublin, a shebeen in Cape Town, a tent in Mongolia — will be close, transitable steps away from Raymundo Sodré, even if they know nothing of Brazil and are unaware that Sodré sings/dances upon this planet. Sodré, having been knocked from the perch of fame and ground into anonymity by Brazil's dictatorship, has now the alternative of access to the world-at-large via recourse to the vast potential of network theory.
...to the degree that other artists et al — writers, researchers, filmmakers, painters, choreographers...everywhere — do also. Artificial intelligence not required. Real intelligence, yes.
Years ago in NYC (I've lived here in Brazil for 32 years now) I "rescued" unpaid royalties (performance & mechanical) for artists/composers including Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd (for his rights in Bob Marley compositions; Clement was Bob's first producer), Led Zeppelin, Ray Barretto, Philip Glass and many others. Aretha called me out of the blue vis-à-vis money owed by Atlantic Records. Allen Klein (managed The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles) called about money due the estate of Sam Cooke. Jerry Ragovoy (Time Is On My Side, Piece of My Heart) called just to see if he had any unpaid money floating around out there (the royalty world was a shark-filled jungle, to mangle metaphors, and I doubt it's changed).
But the pertinent client (and friend) in the present context is Earl "Speedo" Carroll, of The Cadillacs. Earl went from doo-wopping on Harlem streetcorners to chart-topping success to working as a custodian at PS 87 elementary school on the west side of Manhattan. Through all of this he never lost what made him great.
Greatness and fame are too often conflated. The former should be accessible independently of the latter.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
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