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@ 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...

 

This 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. Like a chessboard which could have millions of squares, but you can get from any given square to any other in no more than six steps..."

 

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.

 

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  • Name: Philipp Meyer
  • City/Place: Austin, Texas
  • Country: United States
  • Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland

Life & Work

  • Bio: Philipp Meyer grew up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore, where he dropped out of high school and got a GED. After five years working as a bike mechanic and an orderly in a trauma center, he decided to attend college, attending various local universities before being admitted into Cornell University. He graduated with a degree in English and headed to Wall Street as a derivatives trader. After paying off his student loans, Meyer left Wall Street hoping write full time, but after years of failure and two unpublished apprentice novels, he moved back into his parent’s basement in Baltimore, taking jobs as an EMT and construction worker. Eventually he received a fellowship from the University of Texas's Michener Center for Writers, and moved to Austin, Texas. Shortly after relocating to Austin, Meyer became one of the first EMT's to respond to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, arriving approximately as the eye of the storm was passing through the city, an experience he wrote about in Salon.

    In 2009, Meyer published American Rust, which won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was an Economist Book of the Year, a New York Times Notable Book, and a Washington Post Book of the Year. Meyer was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Dobie Paisano Fellowship, and named as one of the New Yorker magazine’s twenty best writers under forty.

    Meyer’s second novel, The Son, has been a bestseller in a dozen countries and was published in twenty-five languages. It was runner up for the Pulitzer Prize. In France, The Son won the Prix Littérature-Monde as well as the Lucien Barrière Prize and in 2017, Meyer was given the title of Chevalier (Knight) in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

    Meyer has adapted both his books for Hollywood and is working on various other projects. In 2017, The Son premiered as an AMC original, starring Pierce Brosnan.

    Meyer has served as a volunteer firefighter in Baltimore County, Maryland and in rural New York State, and he’s been licensed as an Emergency Medical Technician in several states. He currently lives in Austin, Texas.

Contact Information

  • Management/Booking: Books, United States/Canada
    Eric Simonoff, WME
    [email protected]

    Books, Europe/Asia/Australia/South America/Africa
    Peter Straus, Rogers Coleridge & White
    [email protected]

    Television/Film
    Creative Artists Agency
    Los Angeles, CA

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  • ▶ Website: http://www.philippmeyer.net
  • ▶ Articles: http://www.philippmeyer.net/selected-writings-and-interviews

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  • Quotes, Notes & Etc. Praise for The Son

    "The Son" makes a viable claim to be a Great American Novel of the sort John Dos Passos and Frank Norris once produced…Meyer has given us an extraordinary orchestration of American history…"
    —Ron Charles, The Washington Post

    “a work of extraordinary narrative power…remarkable and beautifully wrought.” —The Guardian, UK

    “On a par with that classic of the genre, Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” —The Telegraph, UK

    "The Son" isn't just one of the most exciting Texas novels in years, it's one of the most solid, unsparing pieces of American historical fiction to come out this century."
    —Michael Schaub, National Public Radio

    "A masterpiece." —Het Parool, The Netherlands

    "the stuff of Great American Literature. Like all destined classics, Meyer's second novel...speaks volumes about humanity..."
    —Publishers Weekly

    "Those damned Americans. The best movies, the best music and now an author like Philipp Meyer. This epic novel…deserves a place in the list of Great American novels." —De Limburger (Netherlands)

    “Meyer has written a classic.” —Southern Literary Review

    "Meyer is a writer of vast ambition and talent, and he has created nothing less than an American epic."
    —Parade

    “This is the book you want to read this summer.”
    —Esquire

    "Utterly absorbing"
    —Reader's Digest

    “A novel that is an epic in the truest sense of the word: massive in scope, replete with transformations in fortune and fate, and drenched in the blood of war.”
    —Huffington Post

    “The Son is an epic, heroic, hallucinatory work of art... No one, ever, has done a novel like this…”
    —Chris Cleave

    "One word—stunning. The Son stands fair to hold its own in the canon of Great American Novels. A book that for once really does deserve to be called a masterpiece."
    —Kate Atkinson

    “A remarkable, beautifully crafted novel. Meyer tackles large movements of American history and culture yet also delivers page-turning delights of story and character.”
    —Charles Frazier

    "A true American epic, full of brutal poetry and breathtaking panoramas. Meyer’s characters repeatedly bear witness to the collision of human greed, savagery, and desire with the mute and indomitable Plains landscape. Meyer is a writer of tremendous talent, compassion, and ambition—The Son is a staggering achievement.”
    —Karen Russell

    “Meyer is an impressive and multitalented storyteller in the old, good sense—the kind that makes me hang on for whatever the next chapter will hold.”
    —Richard Ford

    “The Son is the story of our founding mythology, of the men and women who tore a country from the wilderness and the price paid in blood by subsequent generations. An epic in the tradition of Faulkner and Melville, this is the work of a writer at the height of his power.”
    —Kevin Powers

    “Philipp Meyer redrafts humanity’s oldest questions and deepest obsessions into something so raw and dazzling and brutal and real, The Son should come with its own soundtrack.”
    —Téa Obreht

    Praise for American Rust

    "John Steinbeck is alive and well today . . . and his name is Philipp Meyer"
    —Geordie Williamson, chief literary critic, The Australian

    “everything about this story seems essentially American…in the tradition that stretches from Ernest Hemingway to Cormac McCarthy. Meyer knows how to create heartbreakingly real female characters, too. [His] tone is less polemic than John Steinbeck's, but he's working on the same broad scale."
    —The Washington Post

    "Meyer is already being compared with John Steinbeck, and with very good reason."
    —Esquire UK

    "Do people still think in terms of the Great American Novel – a work of fiction that exactly captures the contemporary spirit of the union? If so, American Rust has GAN stamped all over it. In racing terms it’s by Of Mice and Men, out of Huckleberry Finn, ridden by Cormac McCarthy, and trained by Salinger and Kerouac. "
    —The Daily Telegraph (UK)

    “the social detail and emotional verisimilitude of Richard Russo ... a keen, Salinger-esque empathy. American Rust announces the arrival of a gifted new writer."
    —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

    "The comparisons other reviewers have made to Steinbeck are unavoidable and in large part justified, as are those to Cormac McCarthy….uniformly brilliant."
    —The Times UK (Saturday Review Supplement)

    “remarkable…introduces a novelist worth celebrating and watching.”
    —USA Today, Bob Minzesheimer

    "Like Upton Sinclair’s "The Jungle" and George Orwell’s "Down and Out in Paris and London," American Rust documents the psychological and moral tangle that comes with poverty… In stylistic terms, Meyer’s clipped, stream-of-consciousness narration brings to mind not only the modernists (Hemingway, Woolf, Joyce) but also Cormac McCarthy."
    —The Millions

    "assured...crackles with narrative tension...masterfully painted."
    —The Economist

    "a New Classic"
    —Tatler (UK)

    "stunningly portrayed...a novel rich in scope and ambition."
    —The Guardian

    “reminiscent of William Faulkner...Meyer knows more about the meaning of redemption than most other contemporary American novelists. He also knows how to write a compelling story.”
    —The Baltimore Sun

    "This psychological novel about guilt and redemption has been compared to writers such as Steinbeck, Faulkner and Salinger. Flattering as that may be, the biggest recommendation about Meyer's work is that he sounds like no one, except himself. It is the unique sound of a surprising new American talent. Roest is a brilliant novel."
    —TROUW , The Netherlands

    "Meyer punches in the same heavyweight division as John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy. He's that good."
    —Qantas

    "a novel which you finish feeling hopeful for the future. Because as long as American literature brings forth debut novels of this standing, we do not have to worry about the demise of the generation of post-war literary giants."
    —NRC, The Netherlands

    "[a] skillful debut...both affecting and timely."
    —The New Yorker

    "powerful insight...captivating...compelling."
    —The Observer (UK)

    “Novelists spend entire careers trying to write even one classic book. Philipp Meyer has accomplished that feat on his first attempt. American Rust might one day be recognized as one of our great American novels.”
    — The Dayton Daily News

    "American Rust impresses...this is a new writer who clearly knows what he's doing."
    —The Times (London), Douglas Kennedy

    "brilliant...a documentarist's eye for an uncertain, self-destructing world, the lyrical style to nail a friendship in a sentence and an almost effortless devotion to a page-turning story."
    —Metro UK (five star review)

    "a fine acheivement...moving between the panoramic and the personal with engaging confidence"
    —The Sunday Times UK

    "A masterly hybrid of stream of consciousness prose and expertly paced, thrilling narrative."
    —The New Zealand Listener


    "a bold, absorbing novel...moves deftly from the panoramic to the microscopic — from sweeping views of a dying valley to the quiet ruminations of a mind behind bars."
    —The New York Times Book Review (Lewis Robinson)

    “a literary thriller…lives up to the hype.”
    —Austin American-Statesman

    "a hardboiled debut that seems particularly apt during the financial crisis"
    —The Wall Street Journal

    "poetic...virtuosic...masterful"
    —The New Statesman UK

    “immediate and compelling, and signals the arrival of a new literary voice.”
    —Cleveland Plain Dealer

    “American Rust has been described as recalling the Depression-era novels of John Steinbeck...a distinctive story full of a sorrowful hope graced by a profound respect for struggle and the unrelenting courage necessary to carry on.”
    —The Miami Herald and The Kansas City Star

    "In Philipp Meyer a new American master is born. American Rust is a beautiful, bleak, and ultimately redemptive masterpiece. The best book to come out of America since The Road."
    —Chris Cleave, author of The Little Bee

    "impeccable, even prescient timing ... startling and recognizable insight ... a talent of great promise."
    —The Austin Chronicle

    “In contemporary fiction, Meyer…most resembles Andre Dubus, Dennis Lehane or Richard Price.”
    —The Dallas Morning News

    “With the recent passing of John Updike and the loss of Kurt Vonnegut last year, the American literary landscape is faced with a gaping void… fortunately for us, as readers, there are occasional reasons to hope. Philipp Meyer's debut novel, "American Rust," is one of those reasons.”
    —Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star

    “I admire his [Meyer’s] writing so much….The same way, frankly, that I do Hemingway. He ought to win the Pulitzer.”
    — Patricia Cornwell

    “[A] ruthless and powerful book….” (five star review)
    —Time Out New York

    "an engrossing drama..."
    —Marie Claire

    "Meyer builds his characters so strongly and so realistically that they are characters who stay with readers long after they finish this compelling novel."
    —Binghampton Press & Sun Bulletin

    “Already drawing comparisons to Hemingway and Cormac McCarthy, Philipp Meyer paints a dark and timely vision of small-town life in his ambitious debut novel, American Rust….combines the muscular pleasures of a Dennis Lehane thriller with a far-reaching meditation about where we’re headed as a country.”
    —The Daily Beast

    "As Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath charted the plight of American families during the 1930's Great Depression, American Rust may well be the seminal work for the current one."
    —Otago Daily Times New Zealand

    “a brilliantly realized story…Philipp Meyer is a fine writer and he has nailed [it].”
    —The Morning News, Robert Birnbaum

    “Meyer has a thrilling eye for failed dreams and writes uncommonly tense scenes of violence . . . Fans of Cormac McCarthy or Dennis Lehane will find in Meyer an author worth watching.”
    —Publishers Weekly

    "Meyer's greatest strength as a novelist lies in his poignantly well-rounded characters…strongly recommended for all…fiction collections."
    —Library Journal

    "Meyer does a terrific job capturing the tone and ethos of his setting…the alternating narrators are compellingly drawn…a grimly powerful hybrid: provocative literary fiction crossed with a propulsive thriller."
    —Kirkus

    "a great read...has the feel of a true classic...highly recommended."
    —Monsters & Critics

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