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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.

 

  • Michael Doucet
    I RECOMMEND

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This is the Universe of

  • Name: Michael Doucet
  • City/Place: Lafayette, Louisiana
  • Country: United States

Life & Work

  • Bio: Michael Doucet made it his mission to learn and see flourish again the traditional cajun music of Louisiana.

    He's open to the music's evolution and is a founder of BeauSoleil, drawing on cajun and creole and other genres.

Contact Information

  • Email: [email protected]

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  • ▶ Twitter: beausoleil_band
  • ▶ Website: http://beausoleilmusic.com
  • ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UC1alvU3GjCaNwyzaiTzOGiA
  • ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/0spYL9jVSREEHe8CV5Hpj3

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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 Michael Doucet:

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  • 0 Fiddle
  • 0 Louisiana
  • 0 Mandolin
  • 0 Zydeco
  • Victor Gama Luanda
  • Dieu-Nalio Chery Photojournalist
  • Fred Hersch Classical Music
  • Cashmere Cat Record Producer
  • Cory Wong Songwriter
  • Hendrik Meurkens Jazz
  • Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh Theater Composer
  • Jan Ramsey Second Line
  • Jelly Green Painter
  • Bukassa Kabengele Congo
  • Ivan Lins Piano
  • Marília Sodré Bahia
  • Bisa Butler Quilts
  • Nomcebo Zikode House Music
  • Etienne Charles Caribbean Music
  • Dave Douglas Multi-Cultural
  • Marcos Suzano Brazil
  • William Skeen Early Music
  • Andy Kershaw DJ
  • Michael Olatuja Bass
  • Richie Barshay Jazz
  • Alisa Weilerstein Cello
  • Mauro Diniz Samba
  • Nilze Carvalho Choro
  • Tele Novella Austin, Texas
  • Tam-Ky Marseille
  • Varijashree Venugopal Jazz
  • Shaun Martin Jazz
  • Eivør Pálsdóttir Singer-Songwriter
  • João Teoria Salvador
  • Alexandre Vieira Bahia
  • João Luiz Hunter College Faculty
  • Asali Solomon Novelist
  • Béco Dranoff Cultural Producer
  • Aloísio Menezes Bahia
  • Mou Brasil Brasil, Brazil
  • Mickalene Thomas Painter
  • Andrés Prado Afro-Peruvian Music
  • Nicholas Daniel Conductor
  • Bing Futch Singer-Songwriter
  • Paul Cebar Singer-Songwriter
  • Hélio Delmiro Samba
  • Melvin Gibbs Bass
  • Craig Ross Record Producer
  • VJ Gabiru Videógrafo, Videographer
  • Eli Degibri אלי דג'יברי Composer
  • Jorge Alfredo Cineasta, Filmmaker
  • Plínio Fernandes Classical Guitar
  • Armandinho Macêdo Choro
  • Patricia Janečková Soprano
  • James Martin Singer-Songwriter
  • Nelson Cerqueira Salvador
  • Swami Jr. Guitar
  • Herbie Hancock Piano
  • Alphonso Johnson Funk
  • Mokhtar Samba Drums
  • Brian Lynch Latin Jazz
  • Perumal Murugan Poet
  • Edgar Meyer Curtis Institute of Music Faculty
  • Caterina Lichtenberg Author
  • Marilda Santanna Salvador
  • Joshua Abrams Bass
  • Frank Beacham Storyteller
  • Sam Eastmond Trumpet
  • James Carter Composer
  • Fantastic Negrito Guitar
  • Djuena Tikuna Tikuna
  • Carol Soares Santo Amaro
  • Avishai Cohen אבישי כה Record Label Owner
  • Ben Wolfe Juilliard Faculty
  • Dermot Hussey Pan-Africana
  • J. Cunha Brasil, Brazil
  • Chick Corea Piano
  • Eric Harland Drums
  • Paulo Costa Lima Música Clássica Contemporânea, Contemporary Classical Music
  • Mohamed Diab Egypt
  • Maia Sharp Record Producer
  • Jeff Tweedy Record Producer
  • Chelsea Kwakye Writer
  • Martin Fondse Piano
  • Oswaldo Amorim Bass
  • The Umoza Music Project Multi-Cultural
  • Cécile Fromont Yale Faculty
  • Marc Ribot Free Jazz
  • Léo Rugero Forró
  • Stephen Guerra Brazilian Classical Guitar
  • Intisar Abioto Photographer
  • André Vasconcellos Baixo, Bass
  • Terreon Gully Composer
  • Bruce Molsky Banjo
  • Las Cafeteras East Los Angeles
  • Obed Calvaire Drums
  • Juçara Marçal Singer-Songwriter
  • Erika Goldring Photographer
  • Mário Pam Percussion
  • Rick Beato Atlanta, Georgia
  • Richard Galliano Jazz
  • Moses Boyd England
  • Derrick Hodge Jazz
  • Paul Mahern Punk Rock
  • Negrizu Dançarino, Dancer
  • Rodrigo Amarante Singer-Songwriter
  • Siphiwe Mhlambi South Africa
  • Fabian Almazan Havana
  • Robi Botos Hungary
  • Nelson Cerqueira Faculdade da UFBA, Federal University of Bahia Faculty
  • Benoit Fader Keita Singer-Songwriter
  • Eddie Kadi Pan-African Culture
  • Uli Geissendoerfer UNLV School of Music Faculty
  • Scotty Barnhart Big Band Leader
  • Wayne Escoffery Composer
  • Aderbal Duarte Guitar
  • Bertram Recording Artist
  • Marcelinho Oliveira Brazil
  • Edu Lobo Rio de Janeiro
  • Ajurinã Zwarg Percussion
  • Jerry Douglas Guitar
  • Derrick Adams Installation Artist
  • Elio Villafranca Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Terell Stafford New York City
  • Alex Conde Arranger
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Music Producer
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Hip-Hop
  • Karim Ziad Composer
  • Anat Cohen Clarinet
  • Colson Whitehead New York City
  • Ajeum da Diáspora Afro-Bahian Cuisine
  • Áurea Martins Cantora, Singer
  • Raphael Saadiq Singer-Songwriter
  • Elodie Bouny Lisbon, Portugual
  • Siba Veloso Maracatu
  • Miguel Zenón Saxophone
  • Sharita Towne Printmaker
  • Arthur Verocai MPB
  • Teresa Cristina Songwriter
  • Casey Benjamin Funk
  • Saileog Ní Cheannabháin Theater Composer
  • Lazzo Matumbi Reggae
  • Richie Stearns Appalachian Music
  • King Britt University of San Diego Faculty
  • Zara McFarlane Soul
  • Warren Wolf Composer
  • Duane Benjamin Trombone
  • King Britt Live Producer
  • Bule Bule Repente
  • Wynton Marsalis Composer
  • Margareth Menezes Salvador
  • Dafnis Prieto Cuba
  • Eric Galm Trinity College Faculty
  • Nicolas Krassik Composer
  • Cássio Nobre Ethnomusicologist
  • Tam-Ky Vietnamese Foods
  • Zigaboo Modeliste Funk
  • Joan Chamorro Clarinets
  • Martin Fondse Multi-Cultural
  • Martyn Techno
  • Mikki Kunttu Lighting Designer
  • Alain Pérez Big Band
  • Safy-Hallan Farah Writer
  • Ben Monder New York City
  • Paulinho do Reco Salvador
  • Maladitso Band African Music
  • Richie Barshay New York City
  • Weedie Braimah Djembefola
  • Guillermo Klein Jazz
  • Plinio Oyò Viola Machete
  • Cássio Nobre Guitar
  • Marc Cary Multi-Cultural
  • Mestre Nenel AFROBIZ Salvador
  • Bill T. Jones Writer
  • Giorgi Mikadze გიორგი მიქაძე Composer
  • Nublu Experimental, Electronic Music
  • Inaicyra Falcão Opera
  • Adam O'Farrill Brooklyn, NY
  • Alan Williams Architectural Installations
  • Carl Allen Music Director
  • Marquis Hill African-American Music
  • Bob Lanzetti Record Producer
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Chula
  • Questlove Songwriter
  • Mona Lisa Saloy Storyteller
  • Harvey G. Cohen Political Historian
  • David Chesky Jazz
  • Simon Singh YouTuber
  • João Rabello Guitar
  • Aurino de Jesus Bahia
  • Jessie Montgomery Violin
  • Endea Owens New York City
  • Arturo O'Farrill Bandleader
  • Chris Boardman Television Scores
  • Richie Stearns Tenor Guitar
  • Doug Wamble Singer-Songwriter
  • Yilian Cañizares Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Chris Dave Houston
  • Mariana Zwarg Samba
  • Cedric Watson Zydeco
  • Burkard Polster Mathematics
  • Saul Williams Singer-Songwriter
  • Ben Okri Poet
  • Martín Sued Accordion
  • Ryan Keberle Hunter College Faculty
  • Pharoah Sanders Jazz
  • Louis Marks Music Producer
  • Menelaw Sete Escultor, Sculptor
  • Paulão 7 Cordas Choro
  • Marcus Miller Singer
  • Ferenc Nemeth New York City
  • Paulinho da Viola Brazil
  • Joshue Ashby Violin
  • Caroline Shaw Singer
  • Yoron Israel R&B
  • Raelis Vasquez Dominican Republic
  • Duane Benjamin Composer
  • Jess Gillam Classical Music
  • Charles Munka Hong Kong
  • Hanif Abdurraqib Music Critic
  • Lokua Kanza Singer-Songwriter
  • Tarus Mateen Bass
  • Jakub Józef Orliński Hip-Hop
  • Lucian Ban Piano
  • Gilson Peranzzetta Accordion
  • John Doyle Irish Traditional Music
  • Alicia Hall Moran Singer
  • Arismar do Espírito Santo Choro
  • Beth Bahia Cohen Balkan Music
  • Varijashree Venugopal Film Scores
  • Diedrich Diederichsen Cultural Critic
  • Bobby Sanabria Composer
  • Vincent Herring Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Kirk Whalum Contemporary R&B
  • Jonathon Grasse Brazilian Music
  • Plamen Karadonev Jazz
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Cocktail Bar
  • David Hoffman YouTuber
  • Seckou Keita Senegal
  • Simon Shaheen Arabic Music
  • Sérgio Mendes MPB
  • Serginho Meriti Composer
  • Plamen Karadonev Composer
  • Ken Coleman Essayist
  • Renato Braz Guitar
  • Yazz Ahmed London
  • Yvette Holzwarth Film, Television Recording
  • Carla Visi Salvador
  • Michael Olatuja Afrobeat
  • Max ZT Brooklyn, NY
  • Antônio Queiroz Brazil
  • João Rabello Composer
  • Fabian Almazan New York City
  • Avishai Cohen Composer
  • Jerry Douglas Country
  • Rosângela Silvestre Choreographer
  • Renato Braz São Paulo
  • Jon Batiste R&B
  • Kirk Whalum R&B
  • Woody Mann Folk & Traditional
  • 小野リサ Lisa Ono Singer
  • Rogê Samba
  • Otto Drums
  • Ron Blake Saxophone
  • Willy Schwarz Songwriter
  • Alex Mesquita Bahia
  • César Orozco Composer
  • Peter Evans Avant-Garde Jazz
  • Hamilton de Holanda Choro
  • Sérgio Pererê Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Tony Trischka Banjo
  • David Byrne Film Scores
  • Edmar Colón Puerto Rico
  • John McWhorter Columbia University Faculty
  • Afrocidade Dub
  • Gino Sorcinelli Educator
  • Utar Artun Turkey
  • Thana Alexa New York City
  • Paulinho do Reco Candomblé
  • Cláudio Jorge MPB
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Brasil, Brazil
  • Kiko Freitas Drums
  • Fred P Deep House
  • Matthew F Fisher Collaborative Artist
  • Taylor Ashton Banjo
  • Geraldo Azevedo Singer-Songwriter
  • Paulo Martelli Alto Guitar
  • Mike Moreno New York City
  • Kurt Andersen Writer
  • Joshua Abrams Composer
  • Robertinho Silva Percussion
  • Badi Assad Singer-Songwriter
  • Kim André Arnesen Norway
  • Negrizu Brasil, Brazil
  • Pierre Onassis Singer-Songwriter
  • Sergio Krakowski Rio de Janeiro
  • Pedro Aznar Argentina
  • Maria Rita Rio de Janeiro
  • Marcus Teixeira Guitar
  • Louis Marks Apparel & Fashion
  • Kirk Whalum Flute
  • Brenda Navarrete Singer
  • Urânia Munzanzu Salvador
  • Thiago Espírito Santo Jazz Brasileiro, Brazilian Jazz
  • Nelson Sargento Singer-Songwriter
  • Roy Ayers Singer
  • Rodrigo Caçapa Viola Brasileira
  • Massimo Biolcati App Developer
  • Flavio Sala Classical Guitar
  • John Edward Hasse Ragtime
  • Rhiannon Giddens Banjo
  • Marc Ribot Punk
  • Hercules Gomes São Paulo
  • Rick Beato YouTuber
  • Cara Stacey Radio Presenter
  • John Morrison Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Arthur Jafa Video Artist
  • Hugo Rivas Composer
  • Bob Mintzer Jazz
  • Ben Allison Jazz
  • David Sacks Trombone
  • Ben Harper Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Bobby Vega R&B
  • Samba de Lata Samba
  • Sarah Jarosz Banjo
  • Yilian Cañizares Havana
  • Ben Allison Radio Program Scores
  • Nic Hard DJ
  • Congahead Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Bill Frisell Americana
  • Kirk Whalum Gospel
  • Questlove Rapper
  • Michael Doucet Cajun Fiddle
  • Luciana Souza MPB
  • Amaro Freitas Maracatu
  • Tobias Meinhart Jazz
  • Africania Bahia
  • Joe Chambers Piano
  • Jonga Cunha Brazil
  • Huey Morgan DJ
  • Jonga Cunha Percussion
  • Tonynho dos Santos Salvador
  • Ferenc Nemeth Drumming Instruction
  • Johnny Vidacovich Drums
  • John Harle Composer
  • Daru Jones Hip-Hop
  • Corey Ledet Zydeco
  • Gabriel Grossi MPB
  • Stefon Harris Composer
  • Tutwiler Quilters Quilts
  • Lina Lapelytė Composer
  • Kyle Poole New York City
  • Luciano Calazans Salvador
  • Robert Glasper Songwriter

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We're a real mother for ya!

 

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