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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.

 

  • Márcio Bahia
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Matrix+

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Márcio Bahia
  • City/Place: Rio de Janeiro
  • Country: Brazil
  • Hometown: Niterói, Rio de Janeiro

Life & Work

  • Bio: Márcio Bahia is a Brazilian drummer who has worked with Hermeto Pascoal, Carlos Malta, Hamilton de Holanda, Marco Pereira, Vittor Santos, Leny Andrade, Johnny Alf, Marcos Valle, João Donato, Carlos Lyra, Roberto Menescal, Wanda Sá, Joyce, Gilson Peranzetta, João Bosco, Maria Bethania, Leila Pinheiro, Eliane Elias, David Friedman, Thijs Van Leer, Baden Powell, Toquinho, Ednardo, Fagner, and others.

Clips (more may be added)

  • 1:32:43
    Márcio Bahia Quarteto - 6º Festival Choro Jazz (Jericoacoara)
    By Márcio Bahia
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  • 0:24:31
    Marcio Bahia | Programa Passagem de Som
    By Márcio Bahia
    112 views
  • 4:09
    Hermeto Pascoal | Solo Márcio Bahia (Márcio Bahia) | Instrumental Sesc Brasil
    By Márcio Bahia
    154 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 Márcio Bahia:

  • 3 Brazil
  • 3 Brazilian Jazz
  • 3 Drums
  • 3 MPB
  • 3 Percussion
  • 3 Rio de Janeiro
  • 3 Samba
  • Paulo Costa Lima Brasil, Brazil
  • Christian Sands Composer
  • Plínio Fernandes Brazil
  • Dwandalyn Reece Washington, D.C.
  • Taylor McFerrin Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Joel Best London
  • Ray Angry Piano
  • John Donohue Journalist
  • Beth Bahia Cohen Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Fernando Brandão Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • María Grand R&B
  • Mehdi Rajabian Record Producer
  • Jake Webster Painter
  • Allen Morrison Writer
  • Mark Turner Composer
  • Dale Barlow New York City
  • Mestre Nelito Brazil
  • Steve Lehman CalArts Music Faculty
  • Neo Muyanga Writer
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto Actor
  • Adriano Souza Brazil
  • Fabiana Cozza Singer
  • Edmar Colón Jazz
  • Ben Okri Nigeria
  • James Gadson Drums
  • Omar Sosa Composer
  • Daphne A. Brooks Journalist
  • Alex Mesquita Composer
  • Gerônimo Santana Singer-Songwriter
  • Amit Chatterjee Guitar
  • Luíz Paixão Brazil
  • Joshue Ashby Violin Instruction
  • Aloísio Menezes Brazil
  • Hilary Hahn Classical Music
  • Carlinhos 7 Cordas Brazil
  • Daniil Trifonov Russia
  • David Byrne Writer
  • Little Dragon Sweden
  • Munir Hossn Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Saul Williams Singer-Songwriter
  • Aaron Parks Composer
  • Horace Bray Los Angeles
  • Rudy Royston Photographer
  • Fabian Almazan Record Label Owner
  • Tomo Fujita Funk
  • Lynn Nottage Playwright
  • Dermot Hussey Musicologist
  • Aderbal Duarte Brazil
  • Horace Bray Experimental, Electronic Music
  • Arto Lindsay Composer
  • Jovino Santos Neto Seattle
  • Gilad Hekselman Guitar Instruction
  • Mariana Zwarg Samba
  • Gregory Hutchinson Drumming Instruction
  • Del McCoury Country
  • Gail Ann Dorsey Singer-Songwriter
  • Jen Shyu Vocalist
  • Tony Kofi Jazz
  • Nathan Amaral Rio de Janeiro
  • Ry Cooder Record Producer
  • McCoy Mrubata Jazz
  • Anders Osborne New Orleans
  • Ibrahim Maalouf Beirut, Lebanon
  • Jazzmeia Horn Singer-Songwriter
  • Michael Cuscuna Record Label Owner
  • Antonio Sánchez Drums
  • Shannon Alvis Choreographer
  • Alex Mesquita Composer
  • Joatan Nascimento Bahia
  • David Hepworth Music Journalist
  • Nelson Latif Viola Caipira
  • Vincent Herring William Paterson University Faculty
  • Otmaro Ruiz Piano
  • Ben Allison New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music Faculty
  • Maladitso Band Singer-Songwriters
  • Devin Naar University of Washington Faculty
  • Matt Parker YouTuber
  • Inon Barnatan Classical Music
  • Luíz Paixão Composer
  • David Mattingly School of Visual Arts Faculty
  • Horácio Reis Choro
  • Lucinda Williams Country
  • Peter Erskine USC Thornton School of Music Faculty
  • Fabiana Cozza Phonoaudiologist
  • Michael W. Twitty Food Writer
  • Chubby Carrier Singer-Songwriter
  • Sam Yahel Piano Instruction
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Salvador
  • Dale Barlow Composer
  • Peter Slevin Journalist
  • Joan Chamorro Clarinets
  • Swizz Beatz Art Collector
  • Alicia Svigals Klezmer Fiddle
  • Larry McCray Singer-Songwriter
  • Carlos Aguirre Composer
  • Dezron Douglas New York City
  • Rachel Aroesti Writer
  • Melissa Aldana New York City
  • Jeff Coffin Author
  • David Sedaris Humor
  • Mark Stryker Arts Critic
  • Luíz Paixão Forró
  • David Castillo New Orleans
  • Orrin Evans Neo Soul, Acid Jazz
  • Flavio Sala Classical Guitar
  • Marc-André Hamelin Classical Music
  • Negrizu Candomblé
  • Brad Ogbonna Photographer
  • Luciano Calazans Salvador
  • Yazhi Guo 郭雅志 Chinese Traditional Music
  • Jovino Santos Neto Flute
  • Eric Alexander Saxophone
  • Anoushka Shankar Author
  • Eivør Pálsdóttir Singer-Songwriter
  • Rolando Herts Delta State University Faculty
  • Greg Ruby Composer
  • Carlinhos 7 Cordas Rio de Janeiro
  • Anthony Hamilton Los Angeles
  • Mickalene Thomas Installation Artist
  • Bisa Butler Quilts
  • Alegre Corrêa Guitar
  • Tito Jackson Guitar
  • Kotringo Tokyo
  • Mario Caldato Jr. Record Producer
  • João Teoria Ska
  • Azi Schwartz החזן עזי שוורץ New York City
  • Dan Trueman Software Designer
  • Quatuor Ebène France
  • Toumani Diabaté Multi-Cultural
  • Frank Negrão Funk
  • Jonathon Grasse Writer
  • Nana Nkweti Short Stories
  • Jay Mazza Writer
  • Anthony Coleman Piano
  • Robb Royer Screenwriter
  • Monk Boudreaux Mardi Gras Indian
  • Peter Mulvey Folk & Traditional
  • Immanuel Wilkins Composer
  • Alê Siqueira Classical Guitar
  • Gord Sheard Toronto
  • Jorge Ben Brazil
  • Robi Botos Piano
  • Chris Potter New York City
  • Tom Schnabel Author
  • Kevin Hays Composer
  • Alana Gabriela Percussão, Percussion
  • Casa da Mãe Restaurante-Bar, Restaurant-Bar
  • Geovanna Costa Cantora-Compositora, Singer-Songwriter
  • Aubrey Johnson Queens College Faculty
  • Michael Olatuja Bass
  • Casey Benjamin DJ
  • Marília Sodré Chula
  • Robby Krieger Guitar
  • Charles Munka Collage
  • Paddy Groenland Composer
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  • Anthony Hamilton Record Producer
  • Ofer Mizrahi Singer-Songwriter
  • Andy Romanoff Writer
  • Daniel Jobim Singer-Songwriter
  • Simon Singh Television Producer
  • Paul McKenna Scottish Traditional Music
  • Pretinho da Serrinha Rio de Janeiro
  • Michael W. Twitty Culinary Historian
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  • Arthur Jafa Sculptor
  • Arto Lindsay Record Producer
  • Jaques Morelenbaum MPB
  • Mestre Barachinha Brazil
  • Roberta Sá MPB
  • Marc Johnson Jazz
  • Cedric Watson Fiddle
  • Tony Allen Drums
  • Henry Cole Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Manassés de Souza Brazil
  • Leo Nocentelli Guitar
  • Dale Farmer Appalachian Music
  • Paulo Aragão Brazil
  • Maria Nunes Photographer
  • Léo Rodrigues Côco
  • Jeff Preiss Cinematographer
  • Henrique Araújo Mandolin
  • Omar Sosa Multi-Cultural
  • Ivan Sacerdote Composer
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Singer-Songwriter
  • Marcel Powell Choro
  • Maciel Salú Cavalo Marinho
  • William Skeen Early Music
  • Steve Earle Singer-Songwriter
  • Nabihah Iqbal Guitar
  • Aubrey Johnson New York City
  • Questlove Songwriter
  • Jerry Douglas Guitar
  • Angel Bat Dawid Jazz
  • Bob Mintzer Big Band Leader
  • Edgar Meyer Double Bass
  • David Bruce Multi-Cultural
  • Jon Cowherd Jazz
  • Herbie Hancock Jazz
  • Julian Lloyd Webber Classical Music
  • Cleber Augusto Songwriter
  • Andrew Finn Magill Irish Traditional Music
  • Nelson Ayres Piano
  • Alicia Keys Piano
  • Cara Stacey Composer
  • José James R&B
  • Daedelus Record Producer
  • Roberto Mendes Singer-Songwriter
  • Obed Calvaire Drums
  • Alyn Shipton Jazz Historian
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  • THE ROOM Shibuya Japan
  • João Callado Rio de Janeiro
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  • Kiko Loureiro Guitar
  • Rob Garland Jazz, Rock
  • Stephen Guerra Composer
  • Nick Douglas Tech Writer
  • Louis Marks Apparel & Fashion
  • Emicida Hip-Hop
  • Steve Lehman Composer
  • Sarz Africa
  • Bob Bernotas Music Journalist
  • Jakub Knera Radio Presenter
  • Walmir Lima Samba
  • Django Bates Theater Composer
  • Leandro Afonso Film Editor
  • Amy K. Bormet Composer
  • James Brandon Lewis Poet
  • Paul Mahern Mastering Engineer
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  • Lokua Kanza African Music
  • Chris Thile Composer
  • David Braid Guitar
  • Gregory Porter Jazz
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  • Andra Day R&B
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  • Gilmar Gomes Guitar
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  • Parker Ighile Africa
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  • Armen Donelian Record Producer
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  • Yamandu Costa Composer
  • Shuya Okino Music Producer
  • John Archibald Podcaster
  • Jimmy Duck Holmes Mississippi
  • Paquito D'Rivera Classical Music
  • Gamelan Sekar Jaya Indonesia
  • Jay Mazza New Orleans
  • Taylor Eigsti Composer
  • Rob Garland Guitar Instruction
  • Trilok Gurtu Percussion
  • Yilian Cañizares Jazz
  • Magary Lord Percussion
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  • Louis Marks Ropeadope
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  • Guilherme Kastrup Percussion
  • Marilda Santanna Samba
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  • Aubrey Johnson Singer
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  • Nate Smith Television Scores
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  • María Grand Saxophone
  • Fantastic Negrito Singer-Songwriter
  • Michael League Brooklyn, NY
  • Amitava Kumar Literary Critic
  • Sam Eastmond Record Producer
  • Júlio Lemos Brazil
  • João Luiz Guitar
  • Tank and the Bangas Spoken Word
  • Chris McQueen Austin, Texas
  • Vijith Assar Software Engineer
  • Third Coast Percussion Percussion Ensemble
  • Jason Marsalis Vibraphone
  • Hercules Gomes São Paulo
  • Lalah Hathaway Singer-Songwriter
  • Bruce Molsky Old-Time Music
  • Roberto Fonseca Cuba
  • David Sacks Trombone
  • Riley Baugus Folk & Traditional
  • Stormzy UK
  • Ian Hubert VFX Artist
  • Rita Batista Podcaster
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  • Asa Branca Choro
  • Gabriel Grossi Composer
  • Giba Conceição Salvador
  • Seu Jorge Rio de Janeiro
  • Betsayda Machado Tambor
  • Theo Bleckmann Jazz
  • Zé Luíz Nascimento Salvador
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  • David Byrne Painter
  • Antonio García Trombone
  • Walter Pinheiro Brazil
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  • Celsinho Silva Pandeiro
  • Calypso Rose Calypso
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  • Rema Namakula Singer
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  • Linda May Han Oh Bass
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  • Bebel Gilberto MPB
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  • Áurea Martins MPB
  • Sam Reider Composer
  • Ricardo Bacelar MPB
  • Roy Germano Author
  • Brentano String Quartet Contemporary Classical Music
  • Ferenc Nemeth New York City

 'mātriks / "source" / from "mater", Latin for "mother"
We're a real mother for ya!

 

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