►The matrix puts artists in discoverable reach of each other and the world via the m.o. of artists creating pathways to other artists.

► Human society is a small-world network, hence "six degrees of separation".

►The matrix is a small-world network too.

► In a small-world network...most nodes can be reached from every other node by a small number of hops or steps. (Wikipedia)

► In the matrix, hops/steps are recommendations, and nodes are artists. In the matrix, most artists are transitable steps away from most others . QED

► The matrix has its origins as an extension of a record shop opened to divulge the little known music of the people of the Recôncavo and sertão (subject of this interview with David Dye for broadcast on U.S. National Public Radio), per below. If everybody can now be found, they can too.

► According to Raimundo Sodré, in the sense of struggling under those with hands on the levers of society's power. The dictatorship of '64 to '85 got him. His protest song "A Massa" blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south before his career was destroyed, he was threatened with death, and forced into exile.