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Name:
Mateus Alves
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City/Place:
São Paulo
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Country:
Brazil
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Hometown:
Recife, Pernambuco
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Bio:
Born in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, Mateus Alves holds a degree in music from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and a master's degree in composition from the Royal College of Music, London, UK - where he also studied composition for screen. Since 2013 Mateus has been working constantly with soundtracks for films from Pernambuco. He recently concluded, in partnership with Tomaz Alves Souza, the original soundtrack for the feature film "Bacurau" by Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho, which won the Prix du Jury of the Cannes Film Festival 2019. His work combines elements from the popular music of the Brazilian northeast with the textural techniques of composers like György Ligeti, with influences that range from John and Alice Coltrane, Clóvis Pereira, Sarah Davachi and Ennio Morricone to Soft Machine, Bernard Herrmann, Mica Levi and Giacinto Scelsi.
Natural de Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil, Mateus Alves é graduado em música pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) e mestre em composição pela Royal College of Music, Londres, Reino Unido – onde também estudou música para cinema. Desde 2013 Mateus vem trabalhando constantemente com trilhas sonoras para filmes pernambucanos. Recentemente concluiu, em parceria com Tomaz Alves Souza, a trilha sonora original do longa-metragem "Bacurau", de Juliano Dornelles e Kleber Mendonça Filho, que ganhou o Prêmio do Júri no Festival de Cannes 2019. Seu trabalho combina materiais da música popular do Nordeste brasileiro com técnicas texturais de compositores como György Ligeti, passando por influências que vão de John e Alice Coltrane, Clóvis Pereira, Sarah Davachi e Ennio Morricone a Soft Machine, Bernard Herrmann, Mica Levi e Giacinto Scelsi.
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On the album "Música pra Cinema"
Music is a force that transcends the realm of sound. The composer Olivier Messiaen worked this ability by suggesting that we listen to the "color of time" in "Chronochromie". Similarly, Mateus Alves aims to reveal the "sound of the image" in the album "Music for Cinema".
As the name implies, the album compiles the composer's soundtracks for films such as "Rodolfo Mesquita e as Monstruosas Máscaras de Alegria e Felicidade" (2013, dir. Pedro Severien), "Amores de Chumbo" (2017, dir. Tuca Siqueira) , "Brasil S/A" (2014, dir. Marcelo Pedroso) and "Aquarius" (2017, dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho). With the latter two, Mateus Alves received the award for Best Soundtrack at the Brasilia Festival of Brazilian Cinema and at the Brazilian Cinema Grand Prix, respectively.
If cinema is the music of light, what the Pernambuco composer presents with this album is a sort of film of music. The tracks have a synaesthetic vitality that evokes characters, places, smells, colors, moods, images and situations full of nuances. With martial rhythms and imposing brass, "Marcha das Máquinas" translates into sound the inequalities of a country that industrialized too quickly, as portrayed in the feature film "Brasil S/A". A violent industrialization that undermined the distribution of wealth and the civil rights of the poorest. In a more textural and subtle treatment, "Lançamento do Operário Espacial" ("Brasil S/A") and "Casa de Detenção I" ("Amores de Chumbo") materialize the solitude of the worker and the melancholy of incarceration.
Synthesizing the jazz of Coltrane, the romantic music of Wagner and Tchaikovsky, waltz, minimalism, the music of northeastern Brazil and even rap, "Music for Cinema" points to a polyphonic and plural portrait of Brazil. The soundtracks of "Music for Cinema" are also the tracks for the complex scripts of our society, with their political, social and aesthetic inequalities and contradictions.
Em Português...
A música é uma potência que se expande para além dos domínios do som. O compositor Olivier Messiaen trabalhou esta capacidade ao propor a escuta da “cor do tempo” em “Chronochromie”. Por sua vez, Mateus Alves nos revela o som da imagem no álbum “Música pra Cinema”.
Como o nome indica, o disco compila as trilhas sonoras do compositor para filmes como “Rodolfo Mesquita e as Monstruosas Máscaras de Alegria e Felicidade” (2013, dir. Pedro Severien), “Amores de Chumbo” (2017, dir. Tuca Siqueira), “Brasil S/A” (2014, dir. Marcelo Pedroso) e “Aquarius” (2017, dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho). Com os dois últimos, ele recebeu o prêmio de Melhor Trilha Sonora no Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro e no Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro, respectivamente.
Se o cinema é a música da luz, o compositor pernambucano apresenta neste álbum uma espécie de filme da música. As faixas possuem uma vitalidade sinestésica que evoca personagens, locais, cheiros, cores, climas, imagens e situações cheias de nuances. Com ritmo marcial e metais imponentes, “Marcha das Máquinas” traduz em som as desigualdades de um país que se industrializou rapidamente, como retratado no longa "Brasil S/A". Um progresso violento que menosprezou a distribuição de renda e passou por cima das cidadanias dos mais pobres. De tratamento mais textural e sutil, “Lançamento do Operário Espacial” ("Brasil S/A") e “Casa de Detenção I” ("Amores de Chumbo") materializam a solidão do trabalhador e a melancolia do cárcere.
Sintetizando o jazz de Coltrane, a música romântica de Wagner e Tchaikovsky, valsa, minimalismo, música nordestina como baião e até rap, o álbum indica um retrato polifônico e plural do Brasil. As trilhas sonoras de “Música pra Cinema” são também as trilhas para os complexos roteiros da nossa sociedade, com suas desigualdades e contradições políticas, sociais e estéticas.
Texto: GG Albuquerque
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The Integrated Global Creative Economy, uncoiling from this sprawling Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian cultural matrix.
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Conceived under a Spiritus Mundi ranging from the quilombos and senzalas of Cachoeira and Santo Amaro to Havana and the provinces of Cuba to the wards of New Orleans to the South Side of Chicago to the sidewalks of Harlem to the townships of South Africa to the villages of Ireland to the Roma camps of France and Belgium to the Vienna of Beethoven to the shtetls of Eastern Europe...*
Sodré
*...in conversation with Raymundo Sodré, who summed up the irony in this sequence by opining for the ages: "Where there's misery, there's music!" Hence A Massa, anthem for the trod-upon folk of Brazil, which blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south until Sodré was silenced, threatened with death and forced into exile...
And hence a platform whereupon all creators tend to accessible proximity to all other creators, irrespective of degree of fame, location, or the censor.
Matrix Ground Zero is the Recôncavo, bewitching and bewitched, contouring the resplendent Bay of All Saints (end of clip below, before credits), absolute center of terrestrial gravity for the disembarkation of enslaved human beings (and for the sublimity these people created), the bay presided over by Brazil's ineffable Black Rome (seat of the Integrated Global Creative Economy* and where Bule Bule is seated below, around the corner from where we built this matrix as an extension of our record shop).
Assis Valente's (of Santo Amaro, Bahia) "Brasil Pandeiro" filmed by Betão Aguiar
Betão Aguiar
("Black Rome" is an appellation per Caetano, via Mãe Aninha of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá.)
*Darius Mans holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, and lives between Washington D.C. and Salvador da Bahia.
Between 2000 and 2004 he served as the World Bank’s Country Director for Mozambique and Angola. In that capacity, Darius led a team which generated $150 million in annual lending to Mozambique, including support for public private partnerships in infrastructure which catalyzed over $1 billion in private investment.
Darius was an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he worked closely with the U.S. Treasury and the IMF to establish a framework to avoid debt repudiation and to restructure private commercial debt in Brazil and Chile.
He taught Economics at the University of Maryland and was a consultant to KPMG on infrastructure projects in Latin America.
Replete with Brazilian greatness, but we listened to Miles Davis and Jimmy Cliff in there too; visitors are David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR/WXPN
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
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Randy Brecker
Gustavo Caribé
J Velloso
Lázaro Ramos
Fernando Guerreiro
Maria Marighella
Russell Okung
Bule Bule
Caetano Veloso
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