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 Magda Giannikou 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 Magda Giannikou.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Magda Giannikou (node) ROUTES CURATING WORLDLINES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
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CURATION STATUS
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Who & Where
- Name: Magda Giannikou
- City/Place: New York City
- Country: United States
- Hometown: Athens, Greece
Life & Work
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Bio:
Trained in film scoring, arranging and music production at Berklee, Greek-born singer, film scorer, and composer Magda Giannikou has collaborated with everyone from Kronos Quartet (she was commissioned by and performed with the quartet at Lincoln Center 2013) to Louis CK (she worte and sang a duet with CK for the comedian’s TV show) and Snarky Puppy (participated in their Grammy Award Winning Family Dinner Vol.1).
In almost every facet of the music industry, Giannikou may be best known through her world music ensemble/collective, Banda Magda, founded in 2011.
Banda Magda moves from samba to French chanson, from Greek folk tunes to Colombian cumbia and Afro-Peruvian lando. Their songs capture the best of mid-century pop ballads and cinematic arranging, drawing on the band’s global background and unchained musicality.
Contact Information
- Email: bandamagda.contact@gmail.com
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Management/Booking:
BOOKING
North America & Canada
Matt Epstein & Matt Morrell
(256) 344-7469
booking@epsteinco.com
Denmark
Peter Aasgaard
peter@krabbemusic.com
Spain
Tebar Asociados - Amparo Tebar
amparo@tebarasociados.com
Media & Markets
- ▶ Buy My Music (downloads/CDs/DVDs): http://www.bandamagda.com/shop
- ▶ Buy My Vinyl: http://www.bandamagda.com/shop
- ▶ Twitter: magdagiannikou
- ▶ Instagram: acapellabythesea
- ▶ Website: http://www.bandamagda.com
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCdZzVihlQG2saV2CbGLmiCw
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/0lyKQfpGNHlY54JKxlSOMp
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/36ntsjPxaFFUAtKlTXaXmJ
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/60TvuRkDOKESJZpdCuTSl5
- ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/20n5XwkqdSVsji8QBdSuuh
- ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/3nTkv85TJukidhtGE2FO4H
- ▶ Spotify 6: http://open.spotify.com/album/4dr1681SikeIi27OH60uag
My Instruction
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Lessons/Workshops:
W O R K S H O P S
Brainstorming games, body percussion and rhythm singing are some of the techniques that Banda Magda employs in order to help create, internalize and perform music. The band’s international background and deep knowledge of diverse music styles and languages, inspire students of any practice to cultivate a curiosity for what’s beyond, leading to sense of belonging in the world as a whole.
CONNECTING YOUR SONIC & VISUAL WORLDS
Find the appropriate visual representation of your music through posters, pictures, videos, web design and on-stage visual stories.
BAND LEADING, BRANDING & BOOKING
A discussion on how to successfully lead and self-manage your band.
Clips (more may be added)
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Banda Magda - Sabiá (The Checkout - Live at Berklee)
127 views
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Magda Giannikou & Juan Ospina feat. by WDR BIG BAND: Pure Sounds | Full Concert
120 views
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Banda Magda - Thiamandi (Official Music Video)
125 views
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Banda Magda - Coração (Official Music Video)
118 views
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Banda Magda - Muchacha (Ojos de Papel) (Official Music Video)
129 views
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"):
