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No princípio...

Imagine uma rede em que, por alguma mágica fantástica, todos dentro tenderiam a poucos passos detectáveis ​​de todos os outros... na rede e no planeta...

 

Imagine uma rede que seria mais sobre pessoas que você não conhece do que sobre pessoas que você conhece. E ainda mais importante: sobre pessoas que não o conhecem, mas cujas vidas seriam enriquecidas se o conhecessem...

 

Imagine uma rede que incluiria todos na economia criativa global da humanidade...

 

Você está imaginando O Matrix (Rede Online)!

 

 

Esse Matrix baiano foi fundado (com afeto!) numa questão fundamental: Como é possível fazer com que os músicos mais importantes historicamente do Brasil sejam descobertos por pessoas que vivem em qualquer lugar da Terra?

 

A resposta foi incluí-los num matrix no sentido original da palavra: “fonte”, de “mater”, latim para “mãe”...

 

...um matrix que também incluiria membros da economia criativa de todo o mundo: escritores e jornalistas, pintores, cineastas, coreógrafos, programadores de computador, designers de som e cenografia, designers de moda, matemáticos…

 

Por este meio, podemos pessoalmente alcançar profundamente a realidade da economia criativa global que está realmente lá fora: Roberto Mendes de Santo Amaro pode recomendar João do Boi de São Braz. Munir Hossn de Salvador, mas agora morando em Paris, pode recomendar Roberto Mendes. Alfredo Rodriguez de Havana, mas agora morando em Nova York, pode recomendar Munir Hossn. E Quincy Jones de Los Angeles pode recomendar Alfredo Rodriguez. Quem conhece Quincy Jones agora pode descobrir João do Boi (entre os músicos absolutamente mais fundamentais do Brasil) em apenas quatro passos.

 

Este não é um exemplo isolado. Caminhos curtos de apenas alguns passos entre pessoas criativas amplamente díspares são universais em todo o Matrix. Tal é o fantástico poder matemático do fenômeno do pequeno mundo, o fenômeno responsável pelos "seis graus de separação", unindo a maioria dos seres humanos à maioria dos outros em cerca de seis passos. Essa é a superpotência do Matrix baiano.

 

O Matrix baiano está aberta a todos da economia criativa global. Foi construído numa loja de discos no Centro Histórico de Salvador por um americano que trabalhou anteriormente em Nova York recuperando royalties não pagos para artistas como Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Led Zeppelin, Cat Stevens (Yusef Islam), Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Mongo Santamaria, Ray Barretto, o primeiro produtor de Bob Marley, Clement Dodd, o mestre de jazz Jim Hall e outros.

 

Agora o projeto é mostrar ao mundo o que é que a Bahia tem. Ao permitir que todos na economia criativa global também podem estender a mão ao redor do mundo e mostram ao mundo o que é que eles têm.

 

O Matrix é capaz de atingir profundamente... esta é a vila de São Braz, no Recôncavo baiano, criada por escravizados que escaparam para uma liberdade marginal...

 

In the beginning...

Imagine a network wherein by some fantastic magic everybody within would tend to within scant, discoverable steps of everybody else... in the network, and across the planet...

 

Imagine a network that would be more about people you don't know than people you do know. And even more importantly: about people who don't know you but whose lives would be enriched if they did...

 

Imagine a network which would include all in humanity's global creative economy...

 

You are imagining The Matrix (Online Network)!

 

 

This Bahian Matrix was founded (with love!) on a fundamental question: How is it possible to make Brazil’s most historically important musicians discoverable by people living anywhere around the Earth?

 

The answer was to include them in a matrix in the original sense of the word: “source”, from “mater”, Latin for “mother”...

 

...a matrix which would also include members of the creative economy from everywhere else: writers and journalists, painters, filmmakers, choreographers, computer programmers, sound and set designers, fashion designers, mathematicians…

 

By this means we can personally reach deeply into the reality of the global creative economy that is really out there: Roberto Mendes of Santo Amaro can recommend João do Boi of São Braz. Munir Hossn of Salvador but now living in Paris can recommend Roberto Mendes. Alfredo Rodriguez of Havana but now living in New York City can recommend Munir Hossn. And Quincy Jones of Los Angeles can recommend Alfredo Rodriguez. Anybody who knows Quincy Jones can now discover João do Boi (top photo; "John of the Ox" in English, the vastly important Son House of Brazil) in just four steps.

 

This is not an isolated example. Short pathways of just a few steps between widely disparate creative people are universal throughout the Matrix. Such is the fantastic mathematical power of the small world phenomenon, the phenomenon responsible for “six degrees of separation”, joining most human beings to most others within some six or so steps. This is the Bahian Matrix’s superpower.

 

The Bahian Matrix is open to all in the global creative economy. It was built in a record shop in Salvador’s Centro Histórico by an American who formerly worked in New York city retrieving unpaid royalties for artists including Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Led Zeppelin, Cat Stevens (Yusef Islam), Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Mongo Santamaria, Ray Barretto, Bob Marley’s first producer Clement Dodd, jazz great Jim Hall and others.

 

Now the project is to show the world o que é que a Bahia tem (what it is that Bahia has). By letting everybody in the global creative economy likewise reach out across the planet to connect as they wish and show the world what it is that they have too.

 

The Matrix is capable of reaching deeply...this is João's village of São Braz, in the Bahian Recôncavo, created by enslaved who'd escaped to a marginal freedom...

 

Carpe diem

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  • City/Place: Paris
  • Country: France
  • Hometown: Bukavu, Congo

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  • Bio: Rien de démonstratif chez Lokua Kanza. Aucune ostentation. Rien de brutal non plus. L'homme est pudique, d'apparence sereine, semble en apesanteur et d'humeur méditative. Il réserve ses mots, regarde, écoute, sourit, et d'un léger plissement de ses yeux noirs et pénétrants révèle une part conséquente de sa propre vérité : la puissante lumière intérieure qui l'habite et dont les rais transportent tout à trac bonheurs et souffrances, pleurs et rires, doutes et révélations, frayeurs et espérances, révoltes et respect, compassion et, plus que tout... amour. Avec un grand A.

    Un oeil dans le rétroviseur : naissance à Bukavu (actuelle RDC, République démocratique du Congo). Le père de Lokua, l’un des premiers Zaïrois à commander un bateau sur le grand fleuve Congo, est issu de l’ethnie Mongo, férue de polyphonies. Sa mère, elle, est native des montagnes du Rwanda, pays réputé pour le raffinement de sa musique de cour. L’un et l’autre le sensibilisent dès ses premiers jours à la beauté des mélodies. Apprentissage du chant dans les églises, exploration de la musique à la radio, la télévision, dans la rue, les clubs, les concerts : « À 13 ans, j’ai vu Miriam Makeba sur scène et c’est ce soir-là que j’ai décidé de devenir chanteur. » Son ami Ray Lema lui offre sa première guitare, l'adolescent fait ses premières apparitions publiques dans des orchestres de rumba zaïroise. Puis part se perfectionner au conservatoire de Kinshasa où il se familiarise avec le solfège, la composition, l'harmonie, l'orchestration et parfait sa connaissance instrumentale. Ses professeurs le disent "brillant", "bosseur", "les oreilles grandes ouvertes" (du jazz à Bach, du rhythm’n blues aux traditions du Continent Noir, des refrains de Bollywood à la pop anglo-saxonne, de la variété française à la bossa-nova, tout le ravit et le passionne), "constamment en quête"... En deux mots : "très doué". Outre les guitares et mandolines (acoustiques et électriques, classiques, traditionnelles ou modernes), Lokua manie en expert la sanza, le piano, les claviers, la basse, les percussions, la flûte. Le jeune homme commence à creuser son sillon tout au long du golfe de Guinée, du Zaïre à la Côte d’Ivoire (il réside deux ans à Abidjan), se révèle dans la formation de la grande chanteuse zaïroise La Reine Abéti.

    1984 : fin d'un monde. Lokua s'exile à Paris pour y suivre les cours du guitariste de jazz Pierre Cullaz ( CIM). Rapidement, le multiinstrumentiste mêle sa voix à celle(s) de la communauté musicale africaine, accompagne Ray Lema (il apparaît sur son album « Bwana Zoulou Gang »), Papa Wemba, Sixun, Manu Dibango... L'auteur et compositeur, lui, écrit en quantité pour les uns et les autres et se bâtit peu à peu son propre répertoire. Il donne son premier grand concert parisien en 1992, à l'Olympia, en "vedette américaine" d'Angélique Kidjo. Lokua Kanza, premier opus personnel, est enregistré fin 1992 et publié un an plus tard. Succès énorme. Début 1994, la presse se dit "fascinée", "sous le choc", "envoûtée", "hallucinée", "revigorée", le barde est devenu star et se voit décerner à Libreville (Gabon), le prix du « Meilleur album africain » aux Africar Music Awards.

    Signé chez BMG, Lokua assure les avant-spectacles de Jean-Louis Aubert, Patrick Bruel et Youssou N'Dour (il suit le chantre sénégalais en tournée à New York et joue sur son CD « Wommat », réalisé à Dakar) dont, gageure peu commune, il séduit instantanément les publics respectifs que tout semblerait opposer. Dans la foulée, il coproduit avec Stephen Hague (Wet Wet Wet, New Order, Erasure, Jimmy Sommerville), dans les studios britanniques de Peter Gabriel, à Bath, deux séances de ses amis Papa Wemba (« Emotion », pour lequel il reçoit le prix du « Meilleur arrangeur africain ») et Geoffrey Oryema (« Night and day »). Essai transformé en 1995 avec Wapi Yo, deuxième fabuleuse réussite, album gonflé à bloc de mélopées enchanteresses, trouvailles instrumentales et vocaux sidérants, le tout nappé d'arrangements soyeux. Un réservoir de hits, au premier rang desquels s’inscrivent Shadow dancer et Sallé, qui vaut à Lokua Kanza trois nominations aux 11èmes Victoires de la musique. Suivront quantité de tournées dans le monde entier, du Sénégal à l’Espagne, de l’Allemagne au Canada, du Brésil à Los Angeles. Ponctuées de moments forts : la « Fête à Lokua », en juillet 1996 , aux Francofolies de la Rochelle, où notre ami croise le manche avec Catherine Lara, Enzo Enzo, Papa Wemba et Youssou N’Dour ; le festival de Montreux, le même été ; ou le Heineken Festival de São Paulo, en 1997, occasion unique de mêler sa voix à celles de Djavan, Al Jarreau et Chico César… Sans oublier diverses autres collaborations : invité sur l’album « Hors saison » de Francis Cabrel (1999), duo avec la chanteuse israélienne Noa (« Noa Now », 2001) et composition d’un titre pour Nana Mouskouri (« Fille du soleil », 2002). Sur le plan discographique, cinq ans, cependant, s’écouleront avant que l'artiste ne trouve en Universal Jazz France un partenaire susceptible de lui accorder totale confiance, de le laisser gérer comme il l'entend sa propre musique et de rééditer son troisième compact, 3, gravé en 1998 et quasiment passé sous silence suite à de gros défauts de promotion et de distribution.

    En 2003 paraît Toyébi Té, flamboyante aquarelle chantée sur le ton de la confidence et troisième grosse performance commerciale de Lokua Kanza. Avant de retourner en studio début 2004 pour Plus vivant, le chanteur a de nouveau taillé la route, entre Europe et Afrique, participé à l’aventure « This is our music » aux côtés de Salif Keita, Natalia M. King, Akosh S., Mino Cinélu, Marcio Faraco, et cosigné sur No Format, subdivision d’Universal Jazz, l’élégantissime Toto Bona Lokua en compagnie de Richard Bona et Gérald Toto, trio qui a parcouru les scènes du Nord et du Sud tout au long de l’été. Le chanteur (guitariste, compositeur, arrangeur, auteur et producteur) Lokua Kanza, troubadour métis de père congolais et de mère rwandaise, installé en France depuis vingt ans, revient au début de 2005 avec Plus vivant, sa cinquième production personnelle - et sa deuxième collaboration avec Universal Music Jazz France. L’oeuvre aboutie d’un grand musicien qui se revendique comme citoyen du monde, artiste sans frontières et créateur transcultures : « Je suis mon propre instinct et celui-là m’a conduit aujourdh’ui à chanter en français. »

    Exclusivement interprété dans la langue de Verlaine et Rimbaud, le nouvel opus de Lokua offre à la notion de métissage une incarnation pure et incontestable, qui propose une fusion parfaite (c'est-à-dire imperceptible) entre Nord et Sud et recrée à sa manière l’unicité qui fut autrefois celle de nos ancêtres communs. Un disque superbement arrangé, quinze titres interprétés avec un coeur énorme et élaborés en compagnie de valeurs sures telles que les guitaristes Sylvain Luc et Pepe Fely Manuaku (l’un des grands géniteurs et virtuoses de la rumba zaïroise), le bassiste Richard Bona et le batteur Manu Katché, internationalement plus que reconnus, le percussionniste Sola (compagnon de route de Jamiroquaï) et Corneille sur le titre éponyme, proprement bouleversant.

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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 anybody 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.



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