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M.O. & Worldlines In


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 world. 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 Nublu:

  • 4 Club
  • 4 Record Label
  • 4 New York City
  • 4 East Village
  • 4 Multi-Cultural
  • 4 Jazz
  • 4 Turkish Music
  • 4 Brazilian Music
  • 4 Experimental/Electronic Music
  • 4 Istanbul

The Network Originated in Brazil

 

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

 

This project began in an obscure record shop (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar found it) in a shimmering Brazilian port city.

 

It was 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's not a North American nation. It's 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



  • Nublu
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CURATION

  • from this node by: Sparrow/Pardal

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Nublu
  • City/Place: New York City
  • Country: United States
  • Location & Map: 62 Avenue C. NYC, NY 10009 [open map]

Life & Work

  • Bio: Nublu is a unique club and record label from the cultural epicenter of New York City, the East Village. There are three entities of the Nublu universe, a live music venue, a record label, and a recently launched Nublu Jazz Festival which has premiered in NYC, São Paulo and Istanbul.

    The venue was birthed first in 2002. It started out as a place for like-minded musicians and artists to gather and simply play music together, recalling New York in its creative heyday of the 70’s and 80’s. Nublu has come a long way since its humble beginnings. The club has attracted the admiration of many people and has been touted everywhere from the New York Times to Paper magazine. It is no surprise to come across Lou Reed at the bar, Kevin Spacey or Jorge Ben hanging out, or Norah Jones dancing to Forro. Last year, Jovanotti, the Italian superstar, chose Nublu as the place for his residency. The venue was filled to over capacity for eight straight weeks. Legendary artists like, Gilberto Gil and David Byrne have also done secret shows, and Moby said he realized that he “had more fun DJ’ing records for 75 people at Nublu than going on tour and performing in front of 10,000 people a night” XLR8R Magazine (2008). The list goes on and on.

    The second arm of Nublu is the record label, which started in 2005 as a necessary outlet to release the music coming out of the club. The label now boasts a catalogue of over 50 releases, from music ranging from Brazilian acts 3 Na Massa, Otto and Forro in The Dark, to the jazz stylings of I Led 3 Lives and Nublu Orchestra, the indie pop of Hess is More and Wax Poetic. Between all of its entities, Nublu has established itself as a weighty curator and tastemaker in the independent music scene. There is no one sound to Nublu, just a vibe and a great selection. Nublu owner Ilhan Ersahin says it best, “We’re just playing music.”

Contact Information

  • Email: [email protected]
  • Management/Booking: TEAM
    New York
    Ilhan Ersahin
    [email protected]
    Ertac Uygun
    [email protected]

    Istanbul
    Reha Oztunali
    [email protected]
    ​
    Distribution
    RedEye Worldwide
    www.redeyeusa.com

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Buy My Music: (downloads/CDs/DVDs) http://www.nublustore.com
  • ▶ Buy My Music 2: (downloads/CDs/DVDs) http://nublu.bandcamp.com
  • ▶ Buy My Vinyl: http://www.nublustore.com
  • ▶ Buy My Merch: http://www.nublustore.com
  • ▶ Twitter: NubluRecords
  • ▶ Instagram: nublurecords
  • ▶ Website: http://www.nublurecords.com
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/NubluRecords
  • ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/user/nublurecords

Clips (more may be added)

  • 0:07:10
    ILHAN ERSAHIN & OCEANVS ORIENTALIS - Pire [official film]
    By Nublu
    9 views
  • 0:06:26
    ROCKET SCI - HYMN
    By Nublu
    32 views
  • 4:15
    ROCKET SCI - DOWN IN THE VALLEY
    By Nublu
    29 views
  • 4:34
    Rocket Sci - Migration is Human
    By Nublu
    13 views
  • 4:09
    Ilhan Ersahin’s Istanbul Sessions – Hal
    By Nublu
    11 views
  • 5:18
    Otto - 6 minutos - Parque Villa Lobos 10/11/2013
    By Nublu
    15 views
  • 5:03
    ILHAN ERSAHIN'S ISTANBUL SESSIONS "Hurri-Mitanni (Güzel Haber)" [official video]
    By Nublu
    13 views
  • 5:50
    Ilhan Ersahin's Istanbul Sessions - Love in Space
    By Nublu
    14 views
  • 5:45
    Wax Poetic - Cihangir (feat. Demet Evgar & Biz10)
    By Nublu
    13 views
  • 5:01
    WAX POETIC - Hoppala (feat. Nil karaibrahimgil)
    By Nublu
    15 views
  • 3:51
    WAX POETIC - Keyif (featuring Gökhan Özoğuz & Biz10)
    By Nublu
    17 views
  • 5:50
    Ilhan Ersahin's Wonderland - Labne
    By Nublu
    13 views
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