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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.

 

  • Pedro Martins
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Matrix

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Pedro Martins
  • City/Place: Brasília
  • Country: Brazil

Life & Work

  • Bio: Pedro Martins is a young guitar player from Brazil's capital, at home in both the worlds of jazz and choro. He was voted the Best Guitarist at the Socar Guitar Competition in the 49th Montreux Jazz Festival.

Contact Information

  • Email: [email protected]

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Twitter: pedroomartins
  • ▶ Instagram: pedromartins93
  • ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCbYMm-v_xMvAWRkYUBSmAEw
  • ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/3oswjlYRsmwQmmnd5RUshu
  • ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/3nKGwfaaeQhwEwA2C5Mhx1
  • ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/4bw2KLIhaCmVDX84dpiN1r

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  • Back Home with Pedro Martins and Nelson Faria
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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 Pedro Martins:

  • 2 Brasília
  • 2 Brazil
  • 2 Choro
  • 2 Guitar
  • 2 Jazz
  • Roy Ayers Composer
  • Tyler Gordon Writer
  • Zigaboo Modeliste Funk
  • Richard Bona Africa
  • Rosângela Silvestre Candomblé
  • Urânia Munzanzu Poeta, Poet
  • Jason Parham Publisher
  • Burhan Öçal Tanbur
  • John Morrison Music Journalist
  • J. Period DJ
  • Asma Khalid Washington, D.C.
  • Larry Grenadier Bass Instruction
  • Henry Cole Puerto Rico
  • Chau do Pife Forró
  • Felipe Guedes Guitar
  • Michael Garnice Reggae
  • Margaret Renkl Nashville, Tennessee
  • Donna Leon Venice
  • Luedji Luna Salvador
  • Paulo César Pinheiro Rio de Janeiro
  • Jupiter Bokondji Kinshasa
  • Bruce Williams Saxophone
  • Norah Jones Singer-Songwriter
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Bahia
  • Paulo Aragão Composer
  • Neymar Dias Classical Music
  • Estrela Brilhante do Recife Maracatu
  • Cedric Watson Louisiana Creole Music
  • Nikki Yeoh Composer
  • Eric Galm Percussion
  • Dieu-Nalio Chery Photojournalist
  • Henry Cole New York City
  • Yamandu Costa Choro
  • Casa Preta Teatro, Theater
  • Giba Gonçalves Paris
  • Jeremy Danneman Singer-Songwriter
  • Brandee Younger Jazz
  • Christopher James Record Producer
  • André Mehmari Piano
  • Toninho Horta Brazil
  • Cristovão Bastos Piano
  • Kiko Freitas Educator
  • Alyn Shipton Radio Presenter
  • Lorna Simpson Sculptor
  • Oleg Fateev Accordion
  • Tom Oren Composer
  • Lula Galvão Arranger
  • Toninho Horta Minas Gerais
  • Isaak Bransah Dancer
  • Richie Stearns Appalachian Music
  • Sheryl Bailey Guitar
  • Doug Wamble Jazz
  • Swizz Beatz Rapper
  • Cláudio Badega Brasil, Brazil
  • Edivaldo Bolagi Salvador
  • Avishai Cohen Jazz
  • Duane Benjamin Orchestrator
  • João Rabello Classical Guitar
  • Arto Lindsay MPB
  • Pedrito Martinez Percussion
  • Flying Lotus Hip-Hop
  • Joe Lovano Jazz
  • Django Bates Vocalist
  • Goran Krivokapić Montenegro
  • Nelson Faria Composer
  • Nath Rodrigues Belo Horizonte
  • Kurt Rosenwinkel Guitar
  • Jimmy Dludlu Guitar
  • Walmir Lima Salvador
  • George Cables Piano
  • Ênio Bernardes Percussão, Percussion
  • Lazzo Matumbi Brazil
  • André Mehmari Composer
  • Merima Ključo Sevdalinka
  • Negrizu Candomblé
  • Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram Guitar
  • Mestre Nelito Chula
  • Barbara Paris Multi-Media Artist
  • Hendrik Meurkens Harmonica
  • Nahre Sol Toronto
  • Rob Garland Jazz, Funk
  • Liberty Ellman Brooklyn, NY
  • Melvin Gibbs Brooklyn, NY
  • Logan Richardson Classical Music
  • Rogê Samba
  • Shankar Mahadevan Singer
  • Chris Cheek Saxophone
  • Tito Jackson Blues
  • Ajeum da Diáspora Afro-Bahian Cuisine
  • Morgan Page House
  • Shankar Mahadevan India
  • Varijashree Venugopal Multi-Cultural
  • Dave Smith Jazz
  • Richard Bona Jazz
  • Chris Thile New York City
  • David Byrne Writer
  • Horácio Reis Bahia
  • Otmaro Ruiz Composer
  • Glória Bomfim Singer
  • Manassés de Souza Ceará
  • Matthew Guerrieri Composer
  • Lucian Ban Romania
  • John Medeski Jazz
  • Donald Harrison Composer
  • Kiko Loureiro Finland
  • Casa da Mãe Salvador
  • Larry McCray Blues
  • Shankar Mahadevan Composer
  • Susana Baca Afro-Peruvian Music
  • Jahi Sundance Hip-Hop
  • Alê Siqueira Classical Guitar
  • Horácio Reis MPB
  • Hopkinson Smith Lute
  • Samba de Nicinha Maculelê
  • Aruán Ortiz Jazz
  • Jakub Knera Musical Event Producer
  • Leigh Alexander Journalist
  • Dorian Concept Composer
  • Hamilton de Holanda Brazil
  • Msaki South Africa
  • James Elkington Folk Rock
  • Bonerama New Orleans
  • Joan Chamorro Double Bass
  • Andrés Prado Guitar
  • Ronaldo Bastos Composer
  • Mulatu Astatke Addis Ababa
  • Priscila Castro Cantora-Compositora, Singer-Songwriter
  • Anna Webber Saxophone
  • Swami Jr. Samba
  • Issa Malluf Daf
  • Alexia Arthurs Short Stories
  • Thomas Àdes Composer
  • Juçara Marçal São Paulo
  • Edsel Gomez Latin Jazz
  • Renee Rosnes Piano
  • Kiya Tabassian كيا طبسيان Montreal
  • Kirk Whalum Songwriter
  • Lucio Yanel Gaucho Culture
  • JD Allen Jazz
  • Yoko Miwa Jazz
  • Oded Lev-Ari Piano
  • Fernando César Choro
  • Geraldo Azevedo Pernambuco
  • Serwah Attafuah Graphic Designer
  • Eddie Palmieri Ropeadope
  • Yilian Cañizares Havana
  • Alfredo Del-Penho Brazil
  • Jim Farber Writer
  • Kevin Hays Jazz
  • Miroslav Tadić Jazz
  • McIntosh County Shouters Gullah Geechee
  • David Bragger Guitar
  • Seth Swingle Kora
  • Imani Winds Classical Music
  • MicroTrio de Ivan Huol Bahia
  • David Chesky Record Label Owner
  • Deesha Philyaw Short Stories
  • Jovino Santos Neto Composer
  • Ceumar Coelho Singer-Songwriter
  • Mary Norris New York City
  • Colson Whitehead Novelist
  • Eliane Elias Singer-Songwriter
  • Gabriel Grossi Choro
  • Curtis Hasselbring Brooklyn, NY
  • Jeff Tweedy Chicago, Illinois
  • Doug Adair Americana
  • Taj Mahal Blues
  • Jocelyn Ramirez Online Cooking Classes
  • Bill Hinchberger Brazil Expert
  • Nahre Sol YouTuber
  • Yunior Terry NYU Faculty
  • Andrew Finn Magill Ropeadope
  • Siba Veloso Rabeca
  • Gustavo Caribé Bahia
  • Giba Gonçalves Bahia
  • João Teoria Brasil, Brazil
  • César Camargo Mariano Piano
  • Nilze Carvalho Mandolin
  • Geovanna Costa Cantora-Compositora, Singer-Songwriter
  • Marc Cary Multi-Cultural
  • Larry McCray Singer-Songwriter
  • Del McCoury Guitar
  • Lavinia Meijer Harp
  • J. Cunha Salvador
  • Kim Hill Singer
  • Daniel Jobim Samba
  • Oscar Bolão Percussion
  • Ry Cooder Writer
  • Sérgio Mendes Singer-Songwriter
  • Bill Hinchberger Writer
  • Gian Correa Samba
  • Dan Trueman Composer
  • Joel Ross Jazz
  • Thiago Espírito Santo Jazz Brasileiro, Brazilian Jazz
  • Roy Germano NYU Faculty
  • Rudy Royston Percussion
  • Mario Ulloa Brazil
  • Jamie Dupuis Singer
  • Morten Lauridsen Composer
  • Ronald Bruner Jr. Los Angeles
  • Ivan Sacerdote Brazilian Jazz
  • Lenny Kravitz Photographer
  • Muhsinah Washington, D.C.
  • Lorna Simpson Brooklyn, NY
  • Cleber Augusto Brazil
  • Zigaboo Modeliste Songwriter
  • Ajurinã Zwarg Drums
  • Chano Domínguez Cádiz
  • Oded Lev-Ari Music Producer
  • John Doyle Ireland
  • Kathy Chiavola Country
  • Bill T. Jones Choreographer
  • Shabaka Hutchings Saxophone
  • Marcus J. Moore Editor
  • Giorgi Mikadze გიორგი მიქაძე Classical Music
  • Irma Thomas Singer
  • Ken Avis Radio Presenter
  • Mark Turner Composer
  • Beats Antique World Fusion
  • PATRICKTOR4 Recife
  • Barlavento Samba
  • Dwandalyn Reece Writer
  • André Mehmari Contemporary Classical Music
  • Paulão 7 Cordas Rio de Janeiro
  • Pierre Onassis Música AFRO
  • Beats Antique Oakland, California
  • Rosa Cedrón Singer
  • Shankar Mahadevan Bollywood
  • Yuja Wang Piano
  • Omar Sosa Marimba
  • Liberty Ellman Audio Engineer
  • Utar Artun Jazz
  • Simon Shaheen Oud
  • Shannon Ali New York City
  • Jau Samba Reggae
  • Ari Rosenschein Journalist
  • Al Kooper Singer-Songwriter
  • Shannon Ali Liner Notes
  • Issa Malluf Udu
  • George Garzone Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Mario Ulloa Federal University of Bahia Faculty
  • Burhan Öçal Singer
  • Ben Azar Composer
  • Jared Jackson Literary Critic
  • Louis Marks Apparel & Fashion
  • Anoushka Shankar Singer
  • Roque Ferreira Samba de Roda
  • Olivia Trummer Berlin
  • Howard Levy Chicago
  • Theo Bleckmann Singer
  • Serginho Meriti Brazil
  • Keita Ogawa Drums
  • Les Filles de Illighadad Tuareg Music
  • Abhijith P. S. Nair Composer
  • Tonynho dos Santos Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Iuri Passos Percussion
  • Fabiana Cozza Samba
  • Bongo Joe Records Geneva, Switzerland
  • Gregory Hutchinson Drums
  • Fabiana Cozza Writer
  • Ivan Huol Percussion
  • Marília Sodré Brasil, Brazil
  • Wolfgang Muthspiel Contemporary Classical Music
  • Terrace Martin Record Label Owner
  • Filhos de Nagô Samba
  • Kenny Barron Piano
  • Darrell Green Drums
  • Moses Sumney Soul
  • Kevin Hays Piano Instruction
  • Richard Galliano Accordion
  • Fernando Brandão Brazil
  • Daphne A. Brooks Liner Notes
  • Herbie Hancock Composer
  • Will Holshouser Jazz
  • Dr. Lonnie Smith Jazz
  • David Bragger Guitar Instruction
  • Melissa Aldana Chile
  • Nelson Latif Choro
  • Sharita Towne Stereo Photography
  • Pedrito Martinez Singer
  • Nguyên Lê Composer
  • Nelson Ayres Music Producer
  • Mark Stryker Author
  • Dadi Carvalho Singer-Songwriter
  • Norah Jones New York City
  • Aubrey Johnson Berklee Faculty
  • Alexandre Vieira Compositor, Composer
  • John Patrick Murphy Brazilian Music
  • Christopher Seneca Drums
  • Andrew Gilbert International Music
  • Ricardo Bacelar Advogado, Lawyer
  • Andrew Finn Magill Composer
  • Jocelyn Ramirez Plant-Based Mexican Cooking
  • Mahsa Vahdat Singer
  • Frank Beacham Videographer
  • Lenine Pernambuco
  • Keyon Harrold Record Producer
  • Jay Blakesberg Filmmaker
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh Radio Presenter
  • Ramita Navai Iran
  • John Zorn New York City
  • Samuca do Acordeon Tango
  • Marta Sánchez Composer
  • Roy Nathanson Brooklyn, NY
  • Giovanni Russonello Music Critic
  • Margareth Menezes Singer-Songwriter
  • Alex Rawls Music, Culture Website Owner, Editor
  • Allen Morrison Jazz
  • Berkun Oya Screenwriter
  • Thiago Espírito Santo Produtor Musical, Music Producer
  • Ofer Mizrahi Trumpet
  • Cristovão Bastos Composer
  • Awadagin Pratt University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Faculty
  • Vijay Iyer Piano
  • Michael Olatuja Bass
  • Eric Bogle Australia
  • Harold López-Nussa Havana
  • Rita Batista Brasil, Brazil
  • Jorge Alfredo Salvador
  • Igor Levit Classical Music
  • Kim André Arnesen Choral Works
  • Luciano Salvador Bahia Record Producer
  • Joatan Nascimento Choro
  • Alicia Keys Singer-Songwriter
  • Herlin Riley Tambourine
  • Herbie Hancock Jazz
  • Kronos Quartet San Francisco
  • Jorge Aragão Samba
  • Arto Lindsay Record Producer
  • Joey Baron Drums
  • Ben Wolfe Juilliard Faculty
  • Fernando Brandão Author
  • Keyon Harrold Trumpet
  • Gabriel Geszti MPB
  • João Bosco MPB
  • Jan Ramsey Jazz
  • Leon Bridges Soul
  • Ricardo Bacelar Direitos Autorais, Royalties
  • Joel Guzmán Accordion
  • Rudy Royston Educator
  • Ben Monder Guitar
  • Ari Hoenig Jazz
  • Ofer Mizrahi Guitar
  • Marcus Strickland Saxophone
  • Chano Domínguez Piano
  • Laura Cole R&B
  • Isaak Bransah Ghana
  • Bruce Williams Juilliard Faculty
  • Antônio Queiroz Bahia
  • Tom Piazza Novelist

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We're a real mother for ya!

 

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