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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...

 

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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  • Bio: I've been writing about music and culture since the late 1990s, with a focus on electronic, experimental, and underground music. I'm currently a contributing editor at Pitchfork and a freelancer for sundry other places. Previously, I was senior contributing editor at SPIN and editor of Beatportal, Beatport's news blog, and I wrote extensively for The Wire for more than a decade. I was also a long-time contributor to Resident Advisor.

    Additionally, my work has been published in The New York Times, Slate, Interview, Frieze, and Parkett, among other outlets, and my essays have been included in Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner's Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music; Alex Ross and Daphne Carr's Best Music Writing 2011; Tony Herrington's Epiphanies: Life-Changing Encounters with Music; and Jean-Pierre Criqui's On&By Christian Marclay.

    I was born in Portland, Oregon, but have lived abroad since 2005—first in Barcelona, then Berlin, then Barcelona all over again, and now on the small Balearic island of Menorca.

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  • 3 Essayist
  • 3 Menorca
  • 3 Music & Culture Writer
  • 3 Music Producer
  • 3 Photographer
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  • Joe Lovano Berklee College of Music Faculty
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  • Wadada Leo Smith Trumpet
  • Asma Khalid Journalist
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  • Matthew F Fisher Painter
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  • Leci Brandão Pandeiro
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  • Karim Ziad Composer
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  • Tony Austin Jazz
  • Anthony Hamilton Los Angeles
  • Mehdi Rajabian Multi-Cultural
  • Hanif Abdurraqib Poet
  • Samuca do Acordeon Choro
  • Jurandir Santana Bahia
  • Chris Acquavella Mandolin Instruction
  • Luis Delgado Qualtrough Photographer
  • Doug Wamble Record Producer
  • Yazz Ahmed Bahrain
  • Tia Fuller Composer
  • David Fiuczynski Jazz
  • Mona Lisa Saloy Folklorist
  • Marcus Teixeira Guitar Instruction
  • Nilze Carvalho Samba
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh Flute
  • Bob Telson New York City
  • LaTasha Lee R&B
  • Carlos Henriquez Composer
  • McCoy Mrubata Flute
  • Chris Dingman Multi-Cultural
  • Maria Drell Bahia
  • Marcel Camargo Record Producer
  • Larisa Wiegant Utrecht
  • Sparrow Roberts Bahia
  • Anoushka Shankar Piano
  • Alan Bishop Singer-Songwriter
  • Leo Genovese Keyboards
  • Mary Norris New York City
  • Liz Pelly NYU Tisch School of the Arts Faculty
  • Uli Geissendoerfer Composer
  • Clint Mansell Composer
  • Djuena Tikuna Singer-Songwriter
  • Fábio Peron Multi-Cultural
  • Errollyn Wallen Piano
  • Morten Lauridsen Composer
  • Kurt Andersen Playwright
  • Danilo Caymmi Television Scores
  • Miroslav Tadić Composer
  • Keola Beamer Slack Key Guitar
  • Africania Chula
  • Alegre Corrêa Composer
  • Swizz Beatz DJ
  • Leonardo Mendes Bahia
  • Shez Raja Bass
  • Ivan Bastos Salvador
  • John Santos Record Producer
  • Gabriel Geszti Acordeon, Accordion
  • Emily Elbert Los Angeles, California
  • Luques Curtis Bass
  • Júlio Lemos Composer
  • Neo Muyanga South Africa
  • Bill Callahan Americana
  • Plínio Fernandes Brazil
  • Aurino de Jesus Viola Machete
  • Paulo Aragão Violão
  • Zara McFarlane Jazz
  • Bill T. Jones Writer
  • Igor Osypov Germany
  • Kalani Pe'a Singer-Songwriter
  • Dwayne Dopsie Zydeco
  • Patricia Janečková Opera
  • Myles Weinstein Agent
  • Malin Fezehai Eritria
  • Pallett Tehran
  • Ben Okri Writer
  • Tony Allen Paris
  • Sebastian Notini Salvador
  • Paulão 7 Cordas Choro
  • Bebel Gilberto Rio de Janeiro
  • Donald Vega Nicaragua
  • Tom Green Guitar
  • Shabaka Hutchings Composer
  • Kenyon Dixon Soul
  • Linda Sikhakhane South Africa
  • Gord Sheard Piano
  • Herlin Riley Second Line
  • Bob Telson New York City
  • Christopher Seneca Journalist
  • Yilian Cañizares Havana
  • Jim Hoke Arranger
  • Amitava Kumar Screenwriter
  • Olivia Trummer Jazz
  • Raynald Colom Spain
  • Deborah Colker Brazil
  • Thiago Espírito Santo Educador, Educator
  • Lydia R. Diamond Playwright
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  • Terence Blanchard Trumpet
  • Orlando 'Maraca' Valle Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Dónal Lunny Ireland
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  • Mateus Alves Bass
  • Makaya McCraven Composer
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Hip-Hop
  • Jason Marsalis New Orleans
  • Nic Adler Los Angeles, California
  • Shuya Okino Music Producer
  • Biréli Lagrène Jazz
  • Doug Adair Country
  • Pedro Martins Brasília
  • Garvia Bailey Jamaica
  • Marquis Hill R&B
  • César Orozco Violin
  • Clint Mansell Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Aubrey Johnson Jazz
  • Ivan Huol Brazil
  • Ken Coleman Detroit, Michigan
  • Marvin Dunn Miami, Florida
  • Dorian Concept Synthesizer
  • Tom Moon MPB
  • Ann Hallenberg Mezzo-Soprano
  • James Shapiro Writer
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  • Igor Osypov Berlin
  • Sierra Hull Bluegrass
  • Nara Couto Brasil, Brazil
  • Hank Roberts Ithaca, New York
  • Chubby Carrier Zydeco
  • Margareth Menezes Bahia
  • Chris Acquavella Germany
  • Taylor Ashton Drawings
  • Manolo Badrena Percussion
  • Imani Winds Chamber Music
  • Kiko Souza Salvador
  • Mono/Poly Glitch
  • Nelson Latif São Paulo
  • Jonathan Griffin Radio Presenter
  • Amy K. Bormet Singer
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  • Alan Brain Washington, D.C.
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  • 小野リサ Lisa Ono Bossa Nova
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  • Collins Omondi Okello Pencil Artist
  • Cory Henry Funk
  • Eli Saslow Writer
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  • Willy Schwarz Jewish Music
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  • George Porter Jr. New Orleans
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  • Ben Hazleton Composer
  • Doug Wamble Composer
  • Gustavo Di Dalva Percussion
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  • Tom Green Composer
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  • Dan Weiss Tabla
  • Giba Gonçalves Candomblé
  • Byron Thomas Piano
  • Nduduzo Makhathini Composer
  • James Brandon Lewis Composer
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  • Ben Wolfe Double Bass
  • Corey Henry New Orleans
  • Inaicyra Falcão Opera
  • Luizinho do Jêje Candomblé
  • Rachael Price Americana
  • Catherine Bent Cello
  • Donnchadh Gough Irish Traditional Music
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  • Cedric Watson Accordion
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  • Ari Hoenig Author
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  • Ronaldo Bastos Brazil
  • Jaques Morelenbaum MPB
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  • Grant Rindner Journalist
  • Mariana Zwarg Saxophone
  • Hilton Schilder Cape Town
  • Justin Stanton Sound Design
  • Bhi Bhiman R&B
  • Burhan Öçal Kudüm
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  • Ann Hallenberg Sweden
  • Justin Kauflin Piano
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  • Brett Orrison Austin, Texas
  • Marcel Camargo Choro
  • Adriana L. Dutra Film Festival Director
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  • Nublu New York City
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  • Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram Blues
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  • Darren Barrett Record Producer
  • Herlin Riley Jazz
  • John Santos Percussion
  • Chris Speed Clarinet
  • Fabiana Cozza Writer
  • Taylor Eigsti Piano
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  • Gian Correa Brazil
  • Harvey G. Cohen Cultural Historian
  • Aindrias de Staic Storyteller
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  • Snigdha Poonam Delhi
  • Michael Peha Keyboards
  • Nicholas Gill Food Writer
  • Gavin Marwick Fiddle
  • Toumani Diabaté Mali
  • Fred Hersch Composer
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  • Askia Davis Sr. Educational Consultant
  • Thundercat Singer
  • Bodek Janke Berlin
  • Monk Boudreaux R&B
  • Dona Dalva Samba
  • Alex Hargreaves Jazz
  • Restaurante Axego Salvador
  • Elisa Goritzki Choro
  • Peter Slevin Chicago, Illinois
  • Fábio Peron Brasil, Brazil
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Jazz
  • Rolando Herts Mississippi
  • Dave Jordan Roots Rock
  • Tim Hittle Director
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  • Linda May Han Oh New York City
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  • Stefon Harris Vibraphone
  • Christian Sands Jazz
  • António Zambujo Lisbon
  • Virgínia Rodrigues Singer
  • H.L. Thompson Festival Producer
  • Paulo Martelli Violão Clássico, Classical Guitar
  • Burkard Polster YouTuber
  • Bob Bernotas Radio Presenter
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  • Otto Drums
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  • Bombino Guitar
  • Chris Dave Hip-Hop
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  • Django Bates Composer
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  • Filhos de Nagô Samba
  • Booker T. Jones Soul
  • Aloísio Menezes Samba
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  • Ricardo Bacelar Piano
  • Wynton Marsalis Classical Music
  • Sarah Hanahan Composer
  • Philip Glass Piano
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  • Booker T. Jones Record Producer
  • Simon Shaheen Oud
  • Louis Michot Singer-Songwriter
  • Ricky (Dirty Red) Gordon Washboard
  • Léo Rugero Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Ben Okri Short Stories
  • Barbara Paris Painter
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  • Karla Vasquez Chef
  • Luiz Brasil Salvador
  • Jaques Morelenbaum Brazil
  • Perumal Murugan Tamil Literature
  • Dieu-Nalio Chery New York City
  • William Skeen Baroque Cello
  • Rema Namakula Kampala
  • Steve McKeever Hidden Beach Recordings
  • Yelaine Rodriguez African Diaspora Culture
  • Marcus Gilmore Composer
  • June Yamagishi Jazz
  • Yvette Holzwarth Theater Sound Design
  • Jeff Tweedy Poet
  • Nelson Cerqueira Bahia
  • Beth Bahia Cohen Tanbur
  • Lina Lapelytė Installation Artist
  • Adriano Giffoni Rio de Janeiro
  • Victor Gama Multi-Cultural
  • Keshav Batish Santa Cruz, California
  • Ben Paris Salvador
  • Nublu Istanbul
  • Tatiana Eva-Marie Swing

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