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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.

 

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  • ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/0o05AbCCpC7ae3h0NGJBKg
  • ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/7oLeYy4SJxWnzV87dT2QSf
  • ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/4J6sACDH1qljEwshGmTbWn
  • ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/6MMmn8QvZZf7HgXtw3zOyE
  • ▶ Article: http://www.moderndrummer.com/article/june-2019-chick-coreas-marcus-gilmore/

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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 Marcus Gilmore:

  • 4 Composer
  • 4 Drums
  • 4 New York City
  • Nara Couto Cantora, Singer
  • Ian Hubert VFX Artist
  • Giorgi Mikadze გიორგი მიქაძე Contemporary Classical Music
  • Kenny Garrett Composer
  • Larry Grenadier Basel Music Academy Faculty
  • Jerry Douglas Music Director
  • Frank Beacham Playwright
  • Avishai Cohen אבישי כה Israel
  • Chris Boardman Producer
  • Daphne A. Brooks Journalist
  • Andrew Huang Record Producer
  • The Assad Brothers Classical Guitar
  • Darren Barrett Flugelhorn
  • Linda May Han Oh New York City
  • Sombrinha Cavaquinho
  • Justin Stanton Sound Design
  • Cássio Nobre Salvador
  • John Zorn Record Label Owner
  • Alegre Corrêa Composer
  • Celsinho Silva Pandeiro
  • Avishai Cohen אבישי כה Bass
  • Cristovão Bastos Brazil
  • Jared Jackson Short Stories
  • Las Cafeteras Afro-Mexican Music
  • Damion Reid Jazz
  • Jamael Dean Los Angeles
  • Roots Manuva Hip-Hop
  • Sergio Krakowski MPB
  • Nêgah Santos São Paulo
  • Béla Fleck Songwriter
  • Case Watkins Writer
  • Lenna Bahule São Paulo
  • Lizz Wright Chicago, Illinois
  • Camille Thurman Composer
  • Manolo Badrena Afro-Latin Music
  • Filhos da Pitangueira Chula
  • Bright Red Dog Improvising Collective
  • Nara Couto Afropop
  • Rob Garland Jazz, Rock
  • Varijashree Venugopal Jazz
  • Eli Degibri אלי דג'יברי Composer
  • Jas Kayser Panama City
  • Derrick Hodge Bass
  • Christopher James New York City
  • Marko Djordjevic Drums
  • Adriene Cruz Textile Artist
  • Kamasi Washington Saxophone
  • Brandon J. Acker Chicago
  • David Sánchez Jazz
  • Dudu Reis Samba
  • Deesha Philyaw Columnist
  • Kermit Ruffins Jazz
  • Antonio García Trombone
  • Gabriel Geszti Acordeon, Accordion
  • Orrin Evans Record Label Owner
  • Curly Strings Estonia
  • Tab Benoit Louisiana
  • Cassie Kinoshi Jazz
  • Zé Katimba Cavaquinho
  • Paddy Groenland Dublin
  • Joana Choumali Visual Artist
  • Eddie Kadi Comedian
  • Papa Mali Record Producer
  • Jeff Coffin Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music Faculty
  • Imanuel Marcus Berlin
  • Henry Cole Drums
  • Osvaldo Golijov Composer
  • Nêgah Santos Brazil
  • Ronaldo Bastos Brazil
  • Bule Bule Repente
  • Negrizu Salvador
  • Mark Bingham Guitar
  • Ned Sublette Cuba
  • Gilson Peranzzetta Brazil
  • Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah Mardi Gras Indian
  • Billy O'Shea Ireland
  • Gel Barbosa Bahia
  • Brenda Navarrete Singer
  • Riley Baugus North Carolina
  • Richard Bona Africa
  • Dan Trueman Software Designer
  • Thiago Espírito Santo Jazz Brasileiro, Brazilian Jazz
  • Lucian Ban Piano
  • John Harle Television Scores
  • Ed O'Brien Brazil
  • Ênio Bernardes Pandeiro
  • Omer Avital Middle Eastern Music
  • Casey Driessen Live Looping
  • Spider Stacy Tin Whistle
  • Gilberto Gil Brazil
  • Abel Selaocoe Multi-Cultural
  • Monk Boudreaux New Orleans
  • Kiko Freitas Drums
  • Arthur Verocai Singer-Songwriter
  • David Ritz Writer
  • Adam Neely Composer
  • Tommy Peoples Ireland
  • Chris Dingman Vibraphone Instruction
  • Adonis Rose Drum Instruction
  • Ethan Iverson Avant-Garde Jazz
  • Celsinho Silva Pandeiro Instruction
  • JD Allen Saxophone
  • Jamael Dean Piano
  • Joshue Ashby Violin
  • John Donohue New York City
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Guitar
  • Marilda Santanna Samba
  • Berkun Oya Playwright
  • Bukassa Kabengele Singer-Songwriter
  • Maria Bethânia Salvador
  • Baiba Skride Violin
  • Thomas Àdes Piano
  • Daru Jones Record Producer
  • Nora Fischer Contemporary Classical Music
  • Nelson Cerqueira Academia de Letras da Bahia, Bahian Academy of Letters
  • Edsel Gomez Composer
  • David Bragger Guitar
  • Shannon Sims Journalist
  • Léo Rodrigues Pandeiro Instruction Online
  • Martin Fondse Piano
  • James Martins Brasil, Brazil
  • Maia Sharp Country
  • Sara Gazarek Los Angeles
  • Derrick Hodge Film Scores
  • Eric Alexander Saxophone Instruction
  • Louis Michot Louisiana
  • Michael Cuscuna Jazz
  • Armen Donelian Jazz
  • Itamar Vieira Júnior Journalist
  • Tatiana Campêlo Brazil
  • Nahre Sol Canada
  • Kevin Burke Fiddle
  • Luciano Calazans Brazilian Jazz
  • Leci Brandão Samba
  • Custódio Castelo Guitarra Portuguesa, Portuguese Guitar
  • Jon Otis Drums
  • Burhan Öçal Singer
  • James Gadson Soul
  • Steve Earle Writer
  • Lucian Ban New York City
  • Chad Taylor Jazz
  • Tomo Fujita Blues
  • Amitava Kumar Writer
  • Madhuri Vijay Novelist
  • Júlio Lemos Violão de Sete
  • Daniil Trifonov Russia
  • Liz Dany Choreographer
  • Guto Wirtti MPB
  • Iuri Passos Bahia
  • Victoria Sur Singer-Songwriter
  • Nara Couto Atriz, Actor
  • Şener Özmen Multimedia Art
  • Molly Tuttle Nashville, Tennessee
  • Clarice Assad Singer
  • Alex Hargreaves Fiddle
  • Bobby Sanabria Bandleader
  • Swami Jr. Violão de Sete
  • Harold López-Nussa Composer
  • Moreno Veloso MPB
  • Ricardo Herz Brazil
  • Brady Haran Filmmaker
  • Rayendra Sunito Record Producer
  • Ron Blake Juilliard Faculty
  • Carl Allen Jazz
  • Anna Webber Flute
  • Sierra Hull Mandolin
  • Chico César MPB
  • Shalom Adonai Samba de Roda
  • Guto Wirtti Guitar
  • VJ Gabiru Artista Multimídia, Multimedia Artist
  • Brad Mehldau Contemporary Classical Music
  • Casa da Mãe Bahia
  • Adriano Giffoni Brazil
  • Renata Flores Singer-Songwriter
  • Tom Piazza New Orleans
  • Yola Americana
  • Pretinho da Serrinha Singer
  • Arismar do Espírito Santo Brazilian Jazz
  • Lucinda Williams Nashville, Tennessee
  • Paul McKenna Singer-Songwriter
  • Tyler Gordon Painter
  • Rodrigo Amarante Singer-Songwriter
  • Geraldine Inoa Playwright
  • Ben Hazleton Tabla
  • Nara Couto MPB
  • Plínio Fernandes Brazilian Classical Guitar
  • Kiko Freitas Rio de Janeiro
  • James Carter Composer
  • Joshue Ashby Timba
  • Alegre Corrêa Brazil
  • Nicholas Gill Writer
  • Ann Hallenberg Sweden
  • Sharay Reed Bass
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Music Producer
  • Aubrey Johnson Montclair State University Faculty
  • Dafnis Prieto Percussion
  • Donald Vega Jazz
  • J. Cunha Salvador
  • Bobby Fouther Painter
  • Zigaboo Modeliste Second Line
  • Caroline Shaw Violin
  • Elizabeth LaPrelle Virginia
  • Wynton Marsalis New Orleans
  • Clarice Assad Brazil
  • João Rabello Composer
  • Karsh Kale कर्ष काळे Composer
  • Gel Barbosa Salvador
  • Margareth Menezes Singer-Songwriter
  • Neymar Dias Viola Caipira
  • Arto Lindsay Brazil
  • Larissa Luz Bahia
  • Gregory Hutchinson Drums
  • Chano Domínguez Spain
  • Ari Hoenig Author
  • John Harle Guildhall School of Music & Drama Faculty
  • Intisar Abioto Writer
  • Otmaro Ruiz Piano Instruction
  • Itiberê Zwarg Multi-Instrumentalist
  • James Carter Jazz
  • Cláudio Badega Bahia
  • César Camargo Mariano MPB
  • Concha Buika Spain
  • Hugues Mbenda Chef
  • Ravi Coltrane Record Producer
  • Miles Mosley Singer
  • María Grand R&B
  • Steve Lehman Saxophone Instructor
  • Jack Talty Concertina
  • Jessie Reyez Singer-Songwriter
  • Andy Romanoff Photographer
  • Ore Ogunbiyi UK
  • Marcel Camargo Jazz
  • Daniil Trifonov Piano
  • The Assad Brothers San Francisco
  • Donald Harrison Mardi Gras Indian
  • Paulo Martelli Violão de 11, 11-String Guitar
  • Mayra Andrade Lisbon
  • John McLaughlin Jazz Fusion
  • John Patrick Murphy Pernambuco
  • Vincent Valdez Drawings
  • Muri Assunção Rio de Janeiro
  • Walter Blanding Jazz
  • Nilze Carvalho Bandolim
  • Forrest Hylton Documentary Filmmaker
  • Brian Stoltz New Orleans
  • Maria Drell Bahia
  • Taylor McFerrin Singer-Songwriter
  • Yazhi Guo 郭雅志 Boston, Massachusetts
  • John Medeski Keyboards
  • Alfredo Del-Penho Samba
  • Roberto Fonseca Piano
  • Olga Mieleszczuk Accordion
  • Anna Mieke Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Eduardo Kobra São Paulo
  • Fábio Zanon São Paulo
  • Mark Stryker Arts Critic
  • Toninho Nascimento Brazil
  • Musa Okwonga Essayist
  • Terence Blanchard Educator
  • Jorge Pita Bahia
  • Leigh Alexander Short Stories
  • Eric R. Danton Reporter
  • Luizinho Assis Jazz
  • Cyro Baptista Percussion
  • Jonathon Grasse California State University, Dominguez Hills Faculty
  • Domingos Preto Bahia
  • Chico César Singer-Songwriter
  • Ariel Reich Mark Morris Dance Group Teaching Artist Faculty
  • Antônio Queiroz Samba Rural
  • Gino Banks India
  • Congahead Video Producer
  • Theo Bleckmann Composer
  • Andrés Prado Lima
  • Gino Banks Drums
  • Terri Hinte Music Writer
  • Ari Hoenig Composer
  • Carlos Henriquez Jazz
  • Elie Afif Bass
  • Joshue Ashby Jazz
  • John Patrick Murphy Author
  • Yotam Silberstein Guitar
  • Marcus Printup New York City
  • Keola Beamer Composer
  • Eli Teplin Singer-Songwriter
  • Dorian Concept Record Producer
  • Maria Drell Produção Cultural, Cultural Production
  • Musa Okwonga Rapper
  • Steve McKeever Record Label Owner
  • Joe Newberry Old-Time Music
  • Eli Saslow Writer
  • MicroTrio de Ivan Huol Carnaval, Carnival
  • Ana Luisa Barral Bandolim
  • Eddie Palmieri Piano
  • Tom Zé Bahia
  • Gui Duvignau Bass
  • Gino Sorcinelli Writer
  • Elio Villafranca Juilliard Faculty
  • Wadada Leo Smith Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Bobby Sanabria Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Chad Taylor Composer
  • Béco Dranoff Record Label Owner
  • Duane Benjamin Trombone
  • Leandro Afonso Salvador
  • Rez Abbasi Microtonal
  • Larissa Fulana de Tal Brasil, Brazil
  • Benny Benack III Singer-Songwriter
  • George Porter Jr. New Orleans
  • Yvette Holzwarth Singer
  • Matt Ulery Chicago
  • Kim André Arnesen Oslo
  • Germán Garmendia Chile
  • Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin Ireland
  • Adriene Cruz Portland, Oregon
  • Madhuri Vijay India
  • Shanequa Gay Poet
  • David Chesky Multi-Cultural
  • Alfredo Rodriguez Jazz
  • Nabihah Iqbal Radio Presenter
  • Cimafunk Cuban Funk
  • Martin Fondse Jazz
  • Larry Achiampong Composer
  • Hisham Mayet DJ
  • Cedric Watson Fiddle
  • Oded Lev-Ari Arranger
  • Pedrito Martinez Singer
  • Paquito D'Rivera Author
  • Mário Pam Percussion
  • Brigit Katz Toronto
  • Adriano Souza Rio de Janeiro
  • Andrew Dickson Journalist
  • Peter Dasent Television Scores
  • Inon Barnatan New York City
  • Walmir Lima Singer
  • Cory Henry Organ
  • Carol Soares Samba
  • David Sacks MPB
  • Andrew Huang Toronto
  • Cristiano Nogueira Travel Writer
  • Daru Jones Record Label Owner
  • Trombone Shorty New Orleans
  • Tom Schnabel DJ
  • Ferenc Nemeth App Developer
  • Oswaldo Amorim Escola de Música de Brasília Faculty
  • Meddy Gerville Piano
  • Jurandir Santana Viola Caipira
  • Ken Avis Singer-Songwriter
  • Ken Avis Documentary Filmmaker
  • David Castillo New Orleans
  • Plínio Fernandes Choro
  • Dónal Lunny Record Producer

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We're a real mother for ya!

 

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