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  • @ Ground Zero
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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...

 

This 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. Like a chessboard which could have millions of squares, but you can get from any given square to any other in no more than six steps..."

 

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.

 

  • Marília Sodré
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Criador acima/Creator above

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Marília Sodré
  • City/Place: Salvador, Bahia
  • Country: Brazil

Life & Work

  • Bio: Marília Sodré é violonista (e professora de violão) dedicada ao samba e chula.

    Atuou em Neojibá e Projeto Axé e acompanhou J. Velloso.

Contact Information

  • Email: [email protected]

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Instagram: mariliasodresamba
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMyNp1b-IM5fmYKiCK575Bw
  • ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/3BeLqGYy2LVtNpE9KuhHuy
  • ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/5blQFdrxrhL4F2OKDirOLM

My Instruction

  • Lessons/Workshops: Eu te ajudo a dominar a arte do Samba no violão, mesmo que você esteja apenas começando.

Clips (more may be added)

  • 0:52:16
    APRENDA O CABILA, RÍTMO TÃO IMPORTANTE NA CONSTRUÇÃO DO SAMBA CHULA
    By Marília Sodré
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  • 0:43:48
    REPERTÓRIO DE SAMBA CHULA
    By Marília Sodré
    15 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 Marília Sodré:

  • 4 Bahia
  • 4 Brasil, Brazil
  • 4 Cantora, Singer
  • 4 Chula
  • 4 Instrução de Violão, Guitar Instruction
  • 4 MPB
  • 4 Salvador
  • 4 Samba
  • 4 Violão, Guitar
  • Diosmar Filho Bahia
  • Bernardo Aguiar Percussion
  • Kurt Andersen Journalist
  • Samba de Nicinha Chula
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh County Kerry
  • Reggie Ugwu New York City
  • Jas Kayser Drums
  • Mika Mutti DJ
  • Bertram Ethnomusicologist
  • Eddie Palmieri New York City
  • H.L. Thompson Brazil
  • Dave Eggers Novelist
  • Ben Wolfe Jazz
  • Virgínia Rodrigues Salvador
  • June Yamagishi Funk
  • Weedie Braimah Djembefola
  • Restaurante Axego Afro-Bahian Cuisine
  • Hank Roberts Avant-Garde, Folk, Classical
  • Kenyon Dixon Singer-Songwriter
  • 小野リサ Lisa Ono Jazz
  • Simone Sou Brazil
  • Rodrigo Caçapa Composer
  • Morgan Page House
  • Alex Hargreaves Brooklyn, NY
  • Nicholas Payton New Orleans
  • The Umoza Music Project Malawi
  • Tshepiso Ledwaba Classical Music
  • Africania Brazil
  • Ronell Johnson Brass Band
  • Tobias Meinhart Jazz
  • Stan Douglas Installation Artist
  • Marco Pereira Classical Guitar
  • Luíz Paixão Pernambuco
  • H.L. Thompson Hip-Hop
  • Marquis Hill Chicago
  • Aruán Ortiz Contemporary Classical Music
  • Silas Farley Dance Teacher
  • Gary Lutz Writer
  • Gabriel Policarpo Brazil
  • Marcel Camargo Brazil
  • Gabriel Policarpo Ritmista
  • John Patrick Murphy Forró
  • Walmir Lima Brazil
  • Les Filles de Illighadad Niger
  • Bob Bernotas Rutgers Faculty
  • Madhuri Vijay Writer
  • Luciano Calazans Brazil
  • Ivan Huol Drums
  • Keith Jarrett Classical Music
  • David Ritz Los Angeles
  • Jonathan Scales Ropeadope
  • Siba Veloso Maracatu
  • Siphiwe Mhlambi Visual Story Teller
  • Dave Jordan New Orleans
  • Hua Hsu Vassar College Faculty
  • Nilze Carvalho Brazil
  • Ana Luisa Barral Mandolin
  • Karla Vasquez Journalist
  • Gerônimo Santana Bahia
  • Maria Drell Chicago, Illinois
  • Diedrich Diederichsen Writer
  • Geovanna Costa Violão, Guitar
  • Terence Blanchard Educator
  • Marc-André Hamelin Classical Music
  • Yo La Tengo Experimental Rock
  • Devin Naar University of Washington Faculty
  • Kendrick Scott Jazz
  • Ben Paris New York City
  • Maia Sharp Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Papa Mali Blues
  • Jeff Coffin Record Label Owner
  • John Doyle Dublin
  • Jorge Pita Bahia
  • Saileog Ní Cheannabháin Irish Traditional Music
  • Márcia Short Cantora, Singer
  • Chano Domínguez Brooklyn, NY
  • Martin Koenig Balkan Music
  • Paul Anthony Smith Painter
  • Olivia Trummer Berlin
  • David Chesky Jazz
  • Henrique Cazes Brazil
  • Woz Kaly Senegal
  • Leci Brandão Samba
  • João Teoria Jazz Afro-Baiano, Afro-Bahian Jazz
  • Nardis Jazz Club Galata
  • Derrick Adams Installation Artist
  • Angelique Kidjo Singer-Songwriter
  • Gilson Peranzzetta Rio de Janeiro
  • Edil Pacheco Brazil
  • Alexia Arthurs Jamaica
  • Johnny Vidacovich Jazz
  • Sebastian Notini Salvador
  • Bongo Joe Records Geneva, Switzerland
  • Munir Hossn Bahia
  • Joe Newberry Banjo
  • Marília Sodré Bahia
  • Tito Jackson Blues
  • Ayrson Heráclito Set Designer
  • Lina Lapelytė Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Jerry Douglas Lap Steel Guitar
  • Nêgah Santos Pandeiro
  • Bruce Molsky Banjo
  • Mestrinho Singer-Songwriter
  • Leon Bridges R&B
  • Lorna Simpson Brooklyn, NY
  • Jeff Preiss Director
  • Gavin Marwick Fiddle
  • Dan Moretti Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Aubrey Johnson New York City
  • Phakama Mbonambi South Africa
  • Renell Medrano Photographer
  • Ben Azar Guitar
  • Yoron Israel R&B
  • Mário Santana Brazil
  • Duncan Chisholm Fiddle
  • Kenny Barron Composer
  • Cara Stacey Piano
  • Aubrey Johnson Composer
  • Amit Chatterjee Multi-Cultural
  • Cinho Damatta Salvador
  • Myron Walden Piccolo
  • Luíz Paixão Forró
  • Bejun Mehta Berlin
  • Gretchen Parlato Jazz
  • Pedro Aznar Singer-Songwriter
  • Samuel Organ Synthesizers
  • Marcelo Caldi Composer
  • Gel Barbosa Brasil, Brazil
  • Bertram Ethnomusicologist
  • Daru Jones Record Producer
  • Adonis Rose Drum Instruction
  • Caridad De La Luz Puerto Rico
  • Philip Cashian Contemporary Classical Music
  • David Castillo Trumpet
  • Quatuor Ebène Classicalized Crossover
  • Aneesa Strings Composer
  • Paquito D'Rivera Composer
  • Daphne A. Brooks Journalist
  • Luizinho do Jêje Bahia
  • Robertinho Silva Rio de Janeiro
  • Eric Alexander Saxophone Instruction
  • Robert Glasper Piano
  • Gregory Hutchinson Drums
  • Oscar Bolão Choro
  • Barney McAll Jazz
  • Dan Moretti Composer
  • Antonio Sánchez Composer
  • Isaias Rabelo Salvador
  • Jura Margulis Classical Music
  • Bruce Molsky Old-Time Music
  • Şener Özmen Video Artist
  • Leigh Alexander Writer
  • Ken Coleman Essayist
  • John Schaefer Radio Presenter
  • Ivan Huol Percussion
  • Luizinho Assis Piano
  • Fabiana Cozza São Paulo
  • Jerry Douglas Country
  • Leo Genovese New York City
  • Terrace Martin Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Arturo Sandoval Cuba
  • Joachim Cooder Record Producer
  • Donald Vega Juilliard Faculty
  • Brady Haran Video Journalist
  • Larry Grenadier Basel Music Academy Faculty
  • Varijashree Venugopal Singer
  • Swami Jr. Choro
  • Stormzy Singer-Songwriter
  • Armandinho Macêdo Salvador
  • Martyn DJ
  • Tessa Hadley Short Stories
  • Andrew Dickson Essayist
  • Casey Benjamin Record Producer
  • Django Bates Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Atlantic Brass Quintet Jazz
  • Walter Smith III Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Casa PretaHub Cachoeira Cachoeira
  • Ibrahim Maalouf Trumpet
  • Ray Angry Gospel
  • Ronaldo Bastos Brazil
  • Henrique Araújo Composer
  • June Yamagishi Blues
  • Wilson Simoninha Brazil
  • Nguyên Lê Composer
  • Nublu Club
  • Yosvany Terry Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Catherine Russell Jazz
  • Rayendra Sunito Record Producer
  • Myron Walden Saxophone
  • Gord Sheard MPB
  • Paquito D'Rivera Saxophone
  • Rudresh Mahanthappa Composer
  • Astrig Akseralian Ceramic Artist
  • Laércio de Freitas Brazilian Jazz
  • Natan Drubi Violão de Sete, Seven-string Guitar
  • Echezonachukwu Nduka Writer
  • James Martins Jornalista, Journalist
  • Onisajé Salvador
  • VJ Gabiru Bahia
  • Karsh Kale कर्ष काळे Composer
  • Siphiwe Mhlambi Jazz Photographer
  • Alex Hargreaves New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music Faculty
  • Léo Rodrigues Forró
  • Avishai Cohen אבישי כה Composer
  • Giba Conceição Brazil
  • Varijashree Venugopal Composer
  • Parker Ighile Contemporary R&B
  • Frank London Multi-Cultural
  • Mono/Poly Los Angeles
  • Saileog Ní Cheannabháin Classical Music
  • Benny Benack III Trumpet
  • Priscila Castro Música Afro-Amazônica, Afro-Amazonian Music
  • Nathan Amaral Brazil
  • Jubu Smith R&B
  • Jonga Cunha Brazil
  • Lula Galvão Bossa Nova
  • Eddie Kadi Voiceover Artist
  • Hugues Mbenda Experimental French, African Cuisine
  • Ivan Sacerdote Composer
  • Bob Lanzetti Brooklyn, NY
  • Deesha Philyaw Public Speaker
  • Léo Rodrigues Pandeiro
  • Tia Surica Singer
  • Jonathan Griffin Manchester
  • Bobby Sanabria Drums
  • Mika Mutti Record Producer
  • Cleber Augusto Brazil
  • Burhan Öçal Divan-Saz
  • Aubrey Johnson Brazilian Music
  • Victoria Sur Bogotá
  • César Orozco Cuba
  • Michelle Mercer Music Critic
  • Alexandre Vieira Jazz
  • Michael Kiwanuka London
  • Reena Esmail Piano
  • Kiko Souza Jazz Brasileiro, Brazilian Jazz
  • Randy Lewis Music Critic
  • Psoy Korolenko Псой Короленко Songwriter
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Music Producer
  • Antônio Queiroz Samba Rural
  • Conrad Herwig Jazz
  • Martin Hayes Irish Traditional Music
  • Orquestra Afrosinfônica Música Clássica Contemporânia, Contemporary Classical Music
  • Lenny Kravitz Designer
  • Joshue Ashby Afro-Panamanian
  • Iuri Passos Percussion
  • Amit Chatterjee Indian Classical Music
  • Ambrose Akinmusire New York City
  • Júlio Lemos Choro
  • Turíbio Santos Brazil
  • VJ Gabiru Brasil, Brazil
  • Giba Conceição Candomblé
  • Harish Raghavan Educator
  • Cashmere Cat Electronic Music
  • Adriano Giffoni Rio de Janeiro
  • David Hepworth London
  • Hélio Delmiro Guitar
  • Edu Lobo MPB
  • Shamarr Allen Singer-Songwriter
  • Xenia França Brazil
  • Vivien Schweitzer Opera
  • Marcos Suzano Pandeiro
  • Ajurinã Zwarg Brazilian Jazz
  • Eamonn Flynn Funk
  • João Luiz Guitar
  • Munir Hossn Brazil
  • Maria Bethânia Singer
  • Philip Sherburne Menorca
  • Keshav Batish Multi-Cultural
  • Ken Avis World Jazz
  • Márcio Valverde Samba de Roda
  • Giovanni Russonello New York City
  • Júlio Caldas Bahia
  • Edmar Colón Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Towa Tei テイ・トウワ DJ
  • Edward P. Jones Short Stories
  • Stanton Moore R&B
  • Paulão 7 Cordas Music Director
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Singer-Songwriter
  • Quincy Jones Trumpet
  • Alfredo Del-Penho Samba
  • Nublu Record Label
  • Julian Lage Composer
  • Andrés Prado Composer
  • Steve McKeever Los Angeles
  • Matthew Guerrieri Composer
  • Paulinho da Viola Samba
  • Yacouba Sissoko Mali
  • Tyler Gordon Artist
  • Stanton Moore Second Line
  • John Archibald Journalist
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto Composer
  • Tigran Hamasyan Jazz
  • Derrick Adams Brooklyn, NY
  • Etan Thomas Radio Presenter
  • Roque Ferreira Bahia
  • Zé Katimba Brazil
  • Brian Jackson Jazz
  • Nelson Cerqueira Ensaísta, Essayist
  • Billy O'Shea Writer
  • Jim Farber Writer
  • Frank Negrão Music Director
  • Alfredo Rodriguez Jazz
  • Jazzmeia Horn Writer
  • Roberto Fonseca Jazz
  • Luiz Santos Contemporary Classical Music
  • Cory Wong Guitar
  • Ben Cox Filmmaker
  • Oscar Peñas Multi-Cultural
  • Paul Cebar R&B
  • David Hepworth Podcaster
  • Scott Yanow Music Critic
  • Mônica Salmaso Brazil
  • Eliane Elias Brazilian Jazz
  • Grégoire Maret Composer
  • James Sullivan Music Critic
  • Marcos Portinari Diretor Artístico, Artistic Director
  • Nei Lopes Singer-Songwriter
  • John Patrick Murphy Saxophone
  • Antônio Pereira Manaus
  • MonoNeon Microtonal
  • Guto Wirtti Rio de Janeiro
  • Teresa Cristina Singer
  • Stuart Duncan Violin
  • Terreon Gully Drums
  • Kaveh Rastegar Music Director
  • Stephan Crump Bass
  • Cécile McLorin Salvant Jazz
  • Morgan Page EDM
  • Lucian Ban Romania
  • Sombrinha Rio de Janeiro
  • Karim Ziad Paris, France
  • Lynn Nottage Columbia University Faculty
  • Alexandre Gismonti Brazil
  • Michael Garnice Writer
  • Tomo Fujita Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Oscar Peñas Composer
  • Corey Henry Trombone
  • Léo Rugero Film Scores
  • Marvin Dunn Documentary Filmmaker
  • Joshue Ashby Violin
  • Samuca do Acordeon Composer
  • Dónal Lunny Bodhrán
  • Adam Cruz Drums
  • Gregory Porter Jazz
  • Marilda Santanna Cantora, Singer
  • Muri Assunção LGBTQ
  • Keola Beamer Slack Key Guitar
  • Seckou Keita Composer
  • Alma Deutscher Piano

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