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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.

 

  • Manassés de Souza
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Matrix

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Manassés de Souza
  • City/Place: Fortaleza, Ceará
  • Country: Brazil
  • Hometown: Maranguape, Ceará

Life & Work

  • Bio: Manassés de Souza is a viola de doze (12-string guitar) player from the interior of Ceará, in the Brazilian nordeste (Northeast). He plays in the regional styles of that area.

    Manassés has accompanied Luiz Gonzaga, Fagner (he's a member of Fagner's band), Chico Buarque, Zé Ramalho, Gal Costa, Nara Leão, Mercedes Souza, Pablo Milanes and others.

Contact Information

  • Email: manasseslourenc[email protected]
  • Telephone: + 55 (61) 98655-0882

Media | Markets

  • ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UC7dveHAb4CSnv9HpwzrEYUw

Clips (more may be added)

  • Cainã Cavalcante & Manassés de Sousa | Meninos de Rua.
    By Manassés de Souza
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  • A terceira ponte, Manassés de Sousa e Cainã Cavalcante
    By Manassés de Souza
    326 views
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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 Manassés de Souza:

  • 1 12 String Guitar
  • 1 Brazil
  • 1 Ceará
  • 1 Composer
  • 1 Viola de Doze
  • Zé Luíz Nascimento Percussion
  • Bill Callahan Austin, Texas
  • Caroline Shaw Record Producer
  • Snigdha Poonam India
  • Jake Webster Sculptor
  • Ubiratan Marques Música Clássica Contemporânia, Contemporary Classical Music
  • Jessie Montgomery New York City
  • Huey Morgan Author
  • Yelaine Rodriguez Site-Specific Installations
  • Immanuel Wilkins New School Faculty
  • Ben Okri Short Stories
  • Luciano Salvador Bahia Record Producer
  • Questlove Hip-Hop
  • Richard Galliano Paris, France
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Soul
  • Jas Kayser Jazz
  • Eric Galm Trinity College Faculty
  • Cassie Kinoshi London
  • Kiko Souza Brasil, Brazil
  • Onisajé Dramaturga, Playwright
  • Serginho Meriti Samba
  • Tom Bergeron Niterói, Rio de Janeiro
  • Dezron Douglas Record Producer
  • Nelson Latif Viola Caipira
  • Lakecia Benjamin New York City
  • Nicholas Payton Trumpet
  • Stan Douglas Photographer
  • Miho Hazama Composer
  • Pretinho da Serrinha Percussion
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Black American Culture & History
  • James Sullivan Music Critic
  • Amy K. Bormet Piano
  • Chris Boardman Composer
  • Louis Michot Louisiana
  • Jonathan Scales Multi-Cultural
  • Imanuel Marcus Journalist
  • Alicia Hall Moran Opera
  • Ferenc Nemeth Composer
  • Jonathon Grasse Ethnomusicologist
  • Benoit Fader Keita Singer-Songwriter
  • Chris McQueen Video Producer
  • Ronaldo do Bandolim Samba
  • Rick Beato Author
  • Iuri Passos Candomblé
  • Tom Bergeron Frevo
  • John Waters Writer
  • Bob Telson Film Scores
  • Oscar Bolão Drums
  • Vanessa Moreno MPB
  • Marco Pereira Rio de Janeiro
  • Courtney Pine Flute
  • Márcio Bahia Rio de Janeiro
  • Ariane Astrid Atodji Filmmaker
  • Adriene Cruz Quilts
  • Stefano Bollani Composer
  • Justin Brown Drums
  • Aneesa Strings Los Angeles
  • Dale Barlow Jazz
  • Evgeny Kissin Writer
  • Jeremy Danneman Composer
  • Hisham Mayet Filmmaker
  • Mono/Poly Music Producer
  • Luques Curtis Double Bass
  • Arthur Jafa Video Artist
  • Miroslav Tadić Jazz
  • Dan Weiss Tabla
  • Sandro Albert New York City
  • Mario Ulloa Guitar
  • Lucinda Williams Country
  • Meklit Hadero Ethiopia
  • Paulo Costa Lima Música Clássica Contemporânea, Contemporary Classical Music
  • Lilli Lewis Piano
  • Gary Clark Jr. Singer-Songwriter
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba University of Miami Frost School of Music Faculty
  • Gerald Clayton Los Angeles
  • Dave Jordan Singer-Songwriter
  • Dadá do Trombone Bahia
  • Robby Krieger Rock 'n' Roll
  • Ben Allison Bass
  • Hopkinson Smith Baroque Guitar
  • Glória Bomfim Brazil
  • Marisa Monte Samba
  • Alex de Mora London
  • Shemekia Copeland Singer
  • Alfredo Rodriguez Piano
  • Barbara Paris Painter
  • Seth Swingle Old-Time Music
  • Mauro Refosco Compositor de Shows da Moda, Fashion Show Music
  • Tigran Hamasyan Jazz
  • Ofer Mizrahi Indian Slide Guiter
  • Amaro Freitas Frevo
  • Mika Mutti Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Adam Rogers Composer
  • Warren Wolf Vibraphone
  • Kim Hill Entrepreneur
  • Romero Lubambo Samba
  • Maria Bethânia MPB
  • Carwyn Ellis Experimental Music
  • Jaques Morelenbaum Brazilian Jazz
  • Peter Mulvey Singer-Songwriter
  • Robert Randolph Soul
  • Azadeh Moussavi Film Director
  • Ben Wolfe Double Bass
  • Brandon J. Acker Lute
  • Elie Afif Dubai
  • Hilton Schilder Cape Jazz
  • Jim Farber Journalist
  • Walter Pinheiro Frevo
  • The Rheingans Sisters Folk & Traditional
  • Mike Marshall Choro
  • Sharita Towne Pacific Northwest College of Art Faculty
  • Barney McAll Bulbul Tarang
  • Bill Hinchberger Brazil Expert
  • Isaak Bransah Dancer
  • Miguel Zenón Puerto Rico
  • Mou Brasil Salvador
  • Ron Carter Author
  • Dave Douglas New School's Mannes School of Music Faculty
  • Bill Pearis Journalist
  • Daphne A. Brooks Yale Faculty
  • Tyshawn Sorey Wesleyan University Faculty
  • A-KILL Street Artist
  • Jake Oleson Filmmaker
  • Nelson Ayres Arranger
  • Frank Olinsky Graphic Designer
  • Gabi Guedes Brazil
  • Lavinia Meijer Harp
  • Kevin Hays Singer-Songwriter
  • Dwayne Dopsie Singer-Songwriter
  • Alana Gabriela Brasil, Brazil
  • Horácio Reis Violão Clássico Brasileiro, Brazilian Classical Guitar
  • Giveton Gelin Bahamas
  • Ed O'Brien Singer-Songwriter
  • Andrew Finn Magill Violin
  • Eddie Kadi Radio Presenter
  • Juliana Ribeiro MPB
  • Karim Ziad Paris, France
  • Andrew Gilbert Roots Music
  • Shanequa Gay Multimedia Artist
  • Guga Stroeter Candomblé
  • Guga Stroeter Brazilian Jazz
  • VJ Gabiru VJ
  • Tom Bergeron Ethnomusicologist
  • Niwel Tsumbu Composer
  • Celso de Almeida Brazilian Jazz
  • Django Bates Theater Composer
  • Philip Ó Ceallaigh Romania
  • Yoron Israel Multi-Cultural
  • Lula Galvão Bossa Nova
  • Shuya Okino Radio Presenter
  • Martín Sued Bandoneon
  • Jovino Santos Neto Flute
  • Jared Sims Funk
  • Mayra Andrade Singer
  • Daphne A. Brooks Black American Culture & History
  • John Francis Flynn Ireland
  • Arismar do Espírito Santo Guitar
  • Tatiana Campêlo Brazil
  • Carwyn Ellis Record Producer
  • Linda May Han Oh Jazz
  • Sierra Hull Guitar
  • Errollyn Wallen Singer-Songwriter
  • Marquis Hill Jazz
  • Mandla Buthelezi South Africa
  • Andrew Dickson Writer
  • Sérgio Mendes Singer-Songwriter
  • Mateus Aleluia Salvador
  • Paulinho do Reco Brazil
  • Muhsinah Hip-Hop
  • Dale Barlow Flute
  • Mavis Staples Soul
  • Stephen Kurczy Journalist
  • Tom Moon Saxophone
  • Hot Dougie's Salvador
  • Luciano Calazans Bahia
  • Jennifer Koh Contemporary Classical Music
  • PATRICKTOR4 Recife
  • Burkard Polster Mathematics
  • Yola R&B
  • Simon Shaheen Oud
  • Tia Surica Singer
  • Tom Moon Music Critic
  • David Simon Baltimore, Maryland
  • John Patrick Murphy Irish Traditional Music
  • Mono/Poly Experimental Music
  • VJ Gabiru Mapeamento de Projeção, Projection Mapping
  • Rowney Scott Jazz
  • Fernando César Violão de Sete
  • Michael League Multi-Cultural
  • Alita Moses Jazz
  • Swami Jr. Samba
  • Mark Bingham Guitar
  • Stephen Guerra Choro
  • Béco Dranoff Record Producer
  • Chris Boardman Arranger
  • Celino dos Santos Samba de Roda
  • Alegre Corrêa Jazz
  • Gretchen Parlato New York City
  • Garth Cartwright Poet
  • Colm Tóibín Short Stories
  • Walter Pinheiro Brazil
  • Tatiana Campêlo Dancer
  • Trilok Gurtu Percussion
  • Olivia Trummer Jazz
  • Doug Wamble Jazz
  • BIGYUKI Composer
  • Nahre Sol Canada
  • Gregory Porter Singer
  • Arturo O'Farrill Latin Jazz
  • David Virelles Cuba
  • Kotringo Japan
  • Larry McCray Singer-Songwriter
  • Goran Krivokapić Serbia
  • Arturo O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Lucía Fumero Barcelona
  • Gerson Silva Record Producer
  • Marcel Camargo Los Angeles
  • Joel Guzmán University of Texas in Austin Faculty
  • Shez Raja Indo-Jazz Funk
  • Richie Stearns Americana
  • Peter Slevin Writer
  • Ramita Navai Iran
  • Sara Gazarek Singer
  • Carl Joe Williams New Orleans
  • Renato Braz MPB
  • Richard Rothstein Author
  • MicroTrio de Ivan Huol Brasil, Brazil
  • Kirk Whalum Jazz
  • Anoushka Shankar Sitar
  • Brian Q. Torff Piano
  • Paulo Costa Lima Salvador
  • João Bosco Singer-Songwriter
  • Saileog Ní Cheannabháin Composer
  • Quatuor Ebène France
  • Howard Levy Harmonica Instruction
  • Otmaro Ruiz Venezuela
  • Vincent Herring Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Gian Correa São Paulo
  • Guga Stroeter Samba
  • Jussara Silveira Bahia
  • Marcus Teixeira MPB
  • Júlio Caldas Viola Machete
  • Mateus Aleluia Candomblé
  • Sandro Albert Composer
  • Donald Vega Piano
  • Ronell Johnson Brass Band
  • Vanessa Moreno Brazilian Jazz
  • The Umoza Music Project African Music
  • Clint Mansell Singer-Songwriter
  • Robb Royer Pop
  • Ben Williams Jazz
  • Olivia Trummer Piano
  • Tommaso Zillio Metal
  • Avishai Cohen אבישי כה Composer
  • Ilê Aiyê Brazil
  • Veronica Swift Composer
  • Oscar Peñas Jazz
  • Buck Jones Cantor, Singer
  • Lenny Kravitz Designer
  • Jorge Washington AfroChef
  • Dónal Lunny Bodhrán
  • Camille Thurman Jazz
  • Marilda Santanna Cantora, Singer
  • Greg Osby Saxophone
  • Larissa Luz Bahia
  • Karla Vasquez Chef
  • Joe Newberry Bluegrass
  • Ivo Perelman Brazil
  • Stanton Moore Second Line
  • Daphne A. Brooks Writer
  • Terell Stafford Classical Music
  • Cassandra Osei University of Illinois PhD Candidate
  • Banning Eyre Guitar
  • Terence Blanchard Educator
  • Pharoah Sanders Composer
  • Jason Marsalis Vibraphone
  • Cuong Vu Trumpet
  • Deesha Philyaw Writer
  • John Morrison DJ
  • Marilda Santanna Faculdade da UFBA, Federal University of Bahia Faculty
  • Arturo O'Farrill Bandleader
  • Jonathan Scales New York City
  • Ramita Navai Documentary Filmmaker
  • Weedie Braimah Djembefola
  • Yuja Wang New York City
  • Eli Teplin Singer-Songwriter
  • Kamasi Washington Composer
  • Otto Singer-Songwriter
  • Mário Santana Bahia
  • Gilad Hekselman Brooklyn, NY
  • Zé Katimba Brazil
  • Fabian Almazan Jazz
  • Chris Thile Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Maciel Salú Singer
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Samba Rock
  • Reuben Rogers Bass Instruction
  • Gel Barbosa Bahia
  • OVANA Xangongo
  • Ricardo Herz Violin
  • Kiko Freitas Drum Instruction
  • Kim André Arnesen Composer
  • Glória Bomfim Singer
  • Nate Smith Ropeadope
  • King Britt Record Label Owner
  • Derrick Adams Sculptor
  • Paulo César Figueiredo Rio de Janeiro
  • Martin Koenig Folk & Traditional
  • Mestre Barachinha Caboclo de Lança
  • Burhan Öçal Turkey
  • Thiago Espírito Santo Educador, Educator
  • Raphael Saadiq Neo Soul
  • Eric Harland Composer
  • Giorgi Mikadze გიორგი მიქაძე Jazz
  • Samba de Nicinha Maculelê
  • Vanessa Moreno Brazil
  • Yo La Tengo Hoboken, New Jersey
  • Alma Deutscher Violin
  • Emily Elbert Los Angeles, California
  • Nelson Latif Viola Caipira
  • Rogério Caetano Violão de Sete
  • Ben Hazleton Double Bass
  • Kurt Andersen New York City
  • Carlinhos Brown Salvador
  • Keshav Batish Composer
  • Dezron Douglas Double Bass
  • Johnny Lorenz Writer
  • Karla Vasquez Salvadoran Food
  • Riley Baugus Old-Time Music
  • Robi Botos Ropeadope
  • Obed Calvaire Drums
  • Lizz Wright Singer
  • Avishai Cohen Trumpet
  • Kiko Souza MPB
  • Mauro Refosco Brasil, Brazil
  • Carl Allen Record Producer
  • Calypso Rose Calypso
  • John Santos Composer
  • Diedrich Diederichsen Cultural Critic
  • Louis Michot Fiddle
  • MicroTrio de Ivan Huol MicroTrio
  • Ajeum da Diáspora Bahia
  • Nate Smith Jazz
  • Nara Couto MPB
  • Thundercat Los Angeles
  • Eric Galm Hartford, Connecticut
  • Raynald Colom Flamenco
  • Alexa Tarantino New York City
  • Tom Green Glasgow
  • Astrig Akseralian Painter
  • Matt Ulery Loyola University Faculty

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We're a real mother for ya!

 

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