This is a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes (people) inside it are — mirroring human society — within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable steps away from everybody else in the arts world, and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:
THIS MATRIX, THOUGH BRAZIL-BORN, IS UNIVERSAL
This Paul McKenna matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Paul McKenna.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Paul McKenna (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Paul McKenna's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
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Who & Where
- Name: Paul McKenna
- City/Place: Glasgow
- Country: United Kingdom
Life & Work
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Bio:
Scotland’s Paul McKenna has long been ranked among our finest younger singers and songwriters, armed with a powerful yet intensely emotive voice and passionate social conscience, often expressed through his songs, a combination that’s brought frequent comparisons to the great Dick Gaughan.
He and his band – comprising Robbie Greig (fiddle), Conal McDonagh (pipes/whistles), Conor Markey (banjo/bouzouki/guitars) and Ewan Baird (percussion) – draw on both Scottish and Irish roots, in a dynamic, full-bodied array of original and traditional material, along with songs by like-minded authors including Peggy Seeger, Alistair Hulett and Jim Reid. Following 2016’s tenth anniversary release Paths That Wind, they’re currently at work on their fifth album.
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
United Kingdom
Kelda Manley:
01745 854 310
keldamanley@live.co.uk
Germany
Carla Feuerstein:
+44 (0)7427687415
carlafeuerstein@gmail.com
Australia
Chloe Goodyear:
+61 7 5496 1066
chloe@woodfordia.com
Canada
Shelley Chase:
1 (709) 691 4751
info@garrisonhillentertainment.com
Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: paulmckennaband
- ▶ Instagram: paulmckennaband
- ▶ Website: http://www.paulmckennaband.com
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/03PdCX4iDWSrKdBkoAbqZb
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/05XQtoXYRPOOS7Jfev1hzF
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/0TGbVj8mYZZrNpOwgQH4tn
- ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/3iSlvcSGse3nWtc9BXXTZh
- ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/4txcGyrwpxmkkIOYIl2jHT
- ▶ Spotify 6: http://https://open.spotify.com/album/5qHCiDbYPzEtZkS8qSgd1f
More
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
“The best folk band to have come out of Scotland in the last twenty years” - New York Times
“The best band of their generation” - (The Living Tradition)
“A band with the potential to dominate the Scottish/Irish traditional scene for the next twenty years” - Fatea Magazine
Clips (more may be added)
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The Paul McKenna Band - The Banks of The Moy
152 views
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The Paul McKenna Band - Long Days
162 views
THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' 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... The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum...it sings!
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, 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 specializes in.
MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):
