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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.


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  • MARO
    Milton Nascimento → MPB has been recommended via MARO.
    • June 12, 2020
  • MARO
    Tigran Hamasyan → Singer has been recommended via MARO.
    • June 10, 2020
  • MARO
    Tigran Hamasyan → Piano has been recommended via MARO.
    • June 10, 2020
  • MARO
    Tigran Hamasyan → Jazz has been recommended via MARO.
    • June 10, 2020
  • MARO
    Tigran Hamasyan → Composer has been recommended via MARO.
    • June 10, 2020
  • MARO
    Tigran Hamasyan → Armenian Folk Music has been recommended via MARO.
    • June 10, 2020
  • MARO
    Tigran Hamasyan → Armenia has been recommended via MARO.
    • June 10, 2020
  • MARO
    Esperanza Spalding → Singer has been recommended via MARO.
    • June 10, 2020
  • MARO
    Esperanza Spalding → Jazz has been recommended via MARO.
    • June 10, 2020
  • MARO
    Esperanza Spalding → Composer has been recommended via MARO.
    • June 10, 2020
  • MARO
    Esperanza Spalding → Bass has been recommended via MARO.
    • June 10, 2020
  • MARO
    Milton Nascimento → Singer-Songwriter has been recommended via MARO.
    • August 1, 2019
  • MARO
    Milton Nascimento → Minas Gerais has been recommended via MARO.
    • August 1, 2019
  • MARO
    Milton Nascimento → Brazil has been recommended via MARO.
    • August 1, 2019
  • MARO
    A category was added to MARO:
    Multi-Instrumentalist
    • August 1, 2019
  • MARO
    A video was posted re MARO:
    O Que Será de Ti
    “MARO - Vol.1” is now available!
    • August 1, 2019
  • MARO
    A category was added to MARO:
    Portugal
    • August 1, 2019
  • MARO
    A category was added to MARO:
    Singer-Songwriter
    • August 1, 2019
  • MARO
    MARO is matrixed!
    • August 1, 2019
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@ 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...

 

From Harlem to Bahia



  • MARO
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Sparrow/Pardal

This is the Universe of

  • Name: MARO
  • City/Place: Los Angeles, California
  • Country: United States
  • Hometown: Lisbon, Portugal

Life & Work

  • Bio: MARO is Mariana Secca, wonderful young singer from Portugal, under the wing of Quincy Jones and singing with Jacob Collier. Somebody to keep your eye and ear on.

Contact Information

  • Email: [email protected]
  • Management/Booking: Booking
    [email protected]

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Instagram: maro.musica
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/profissional30
  • ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCYrtJON3ZQBMgS4jyjFbS5Q
  • ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/0u1xTG4LN7tt32hSzvKwrO

Clips (more may be added)

  • O Que Será de Ti
    By MARO
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