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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.

 

  • Plinio Oyò
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Criador acima/Creator above

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Plinio Oyò
  • City/Place: Camaçari, Bahia
  • Country: Brazil

Life & Work

  • Bio: Plínio Oyó — Mestre Plínio — a master of samba chula, is leader of Samba Chula Filhos de Oyó (sons of Oyò; Oyò is a region in what is now Nigeria).

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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 Plinio Oyò:

  • 4 Bahia
  • 4 Brasil, Brazil
  • 4 Camaçari
  • 4 Chula
  • 4 Samba de Roda
  • 4 Viola Machete
  • Michael Janisch Record Label Owner
  • Igor Levit Piano
  • Ben Paris Bahia
  • Sombrinha Cavaquinho
  • Yamandu Costa Brazil
  • Ibram X. Kendi Writer
  • Şener Özmen Multimedia Art
  • Flying Lotus Hip-Hop
  • David Chesky Jazz
  • Angel Bat Dawid Composer
  • Jean-Paul Bourelly Jazz
  • Cedric Watson Zydeco
  • Emily Elbert Guitar
  • Otto Drums
  • Parker Ighile NIgeria
  • Otmaro Ruiz Los Angeles
  • Brenda Navarrete Percussion
  • Andrew Gilbert Berkeley, California
  • Bule Bule Samba
  • Nate Chinen Writer
  • Asa Branca Federal University of Bahia Faculty
  • Chick Corea Jazz
  • Leyla McCalla New Orleans
  • Michael Cleveland Bluegrass
  • Roy Germano Filmmaker
  • J. Pierre New Orleans
  • Berkun Oya Playwright
  • Nêgah Santos Jazz
  • Woody Mann Blues
  • Brandon J. Acker Chicago
  • Terell Stafford Classical Music
  • Issac Delgado Composer
  • Bukassa Kabengele Congo
  • Eric Galm Brazil
  • Frank London Multi-Cultural
  • Muhsinah Piano
  • João Luiz Brazilian Classical Guitar
  • Rayendra Sunito Record Producer
  • Kenyon Dixon Los Angeles
  • Rudresh Mahanthappa Composer
  • Marilda Santanna Bahia
  • Matt Glaser Jazz
  • Gilad Hekselman Jazz
  • Sam Yahel Hammond B-3
  • Shamarr Allen R&B
  • João Luiz MPB
  • Sammy Britt Artist
  • James Poyser Songwriter
  • Morten Lauridsen Composer
  • Joshua Abrams Composer
  • Asa Branca Samba de Roda
  • Jane Ira Bloom Jazz
  • Paul Mahern Bloomington, Indiana
  • Nate Smith Drums
  • Jeff Coffin Record Label Owner
  • Aurino de Jesus Brazil
  • Eliane Elias Piano
  • David Hepworth Publishing Industry Analyst
  • Itamar Vieira Júnior Bahia
  • Byron Thomas Music Director
  • Ken Avis Guitar
  • Edmar Colón Flute
  • Christopher James Record Producer
  • Maria Drell Produção Cultural, Cultural Production
  • Run the Jewels Hip-Hop
  • Dezron Douglas Bass
  • Martín Sued Composer
  • Dave Holland Bass
  • Georgia Anne Muldrow Hip-Hop
  • Luizinho do Jêje Percussion
  • Vijay Iyer Piano
  • David Mattingly Matte Painter
  • David Bruce Multi-Cultural
  • Hugo Rivas Buenos Aires
  • Lívia Mattos Singer-Songwriter
  • Hendrik Meurkens Composer
  • Tal Wilkenfeld Los Angeles
  • Willy Schwarz Songwriter
  • John Boutté Singer
  • Horace Bray Record Producer
  • Maria Drell Brasil, Brazil
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto Multi-Cultural
  • Edivaldo Bolagi Salvador
  • Flor Jorge Rio de Janeiro
  • Seth Swingle Multi-Cultural
  • Shaun Martin Songwriter
  • Paulo Martelli Brasil, Brazil
  • Nação Zumbi Manguebeat
  • Mohamed Diab Cairo
  • Luiz Santos Rio de Janeiro
  • Tomoko Omura Multi-Cultural
  • Léo Rugero Accordion
  • Ronald Bruner Jr. Drums
  • Kurt Rosenwinkel Guitar
  • Jas Kayser Afrobeat
  • Larissa Luz Writer
  • Shabaka Hutchings Saxophone
  • Aruán Ortiz Composer
  • Milford Graves Composer
  • The Weeknd Actor
  • Luques Curtis Latin Jazz
  • David Castillo Singer
  • Thiago Espírito Santo Guitarra, Guitar
  • Scotty Apex Hip-Hop
  • Philip Watson Cork
  • Adanya Dunn Canada
  • Malin Fezehai Photographer
  • David Wax Museum Charlottesville, Virgina
  • Cássio Nobre Samba de Roda
  • Dave Smith Percussion
  • Ken Dossar Philadelphia
  • Nublu Istanbul
  • JD Allen Jazz
  • Swizz Beatz DJ
  • Robertinho Silva Brazil
  • Nelson Cerqueira Ensaísta, Essayist
  • Angel Deradoorian Los Angeles
  • Celsinho Silva Pandeiro Instruction
  • Elizabeth LaPrelle Folk & Traditional
  • Wayne Krantz New York City
  • Lenna Bahule Singer-Songwriter
  • Mike Moreno Guitar
  • Nancy Viégas Bahia
  • Serginho Meriti Samba
  • Beeple NFTs
  • Nigel Hall Singer
  • Hopkinson Smith Lute
  • Abel Selaocoe Contemporary African Classical Music
  • Ricardo Bacelar Advogado, Lawyer
  • Weedie Braimah Djembefola
  • Adam O'Farrill Composer
  • Ivo Perelman Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Ballaké Sissoko Mali
  • Rodrigo Amarante Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Şener Özmen Artist
  • Rowney Scott Saxophone
  • Alegre Corrêa Guitar
  • OVANA Singers-Songwriters
  • Sam Yahel New York City
  • Adam Neely YouTuber
  • Giorgi Mikadze გიორგი მიქაძე Georgian Folk Music
  • Massimo Biolcati Bass
  • Snigdha Poonam Journalist
  • Msaki Singer-Songwriter
  • Marcus Miller Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Jura Margulis Piano
  • Dave Weckl Los Angeles
  • Yola England
  • Eduardo Kobra Arte Urbana, Urban Art
  • Susana Baca Folklorist
  • Fred P Berlin
  • Bing Futch Americana
  • Paulo Aragão MPB
  • Steve Lehman Composer
  • Jorge Washington Chef
  • Jerry Douglas Lap Steel Guitar
  • Geraldo Azevedo Pernambuco
  • Fapy Lafertin Guitar
  • Joe Newberry Singer-Songwriter
  • Bob Lanzetti Brooklyn, NY
  • João do Boi Samba de Roda
  • Mário Pam Salvador
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Compositor, Songwriter
  • Archie Shepp Pianist
  • Bobby Vega Funk
  • Mona Lisa Saloy New Orleans
  • Leyla McCalla Folk & Traditional
  • Patty Kiss Brasil, Brazil
  • Seckou Keita Africa
  • Samuca do Acordeon Bossa Nova
  • Little Dragon Electronic Music
  • Don Byron Clarinet
  • Brian Jackson Brooklyn, NY
  • Andrew Dickson London
  • Yoko Miwa Boston
  • Karim Ziad Percussion
  • 小野リサ Lisa Ono Guitar
  • Chick Corea Contemporary Classical Music
  • Riley Baugus Old-Time Music
  • Isaak Bransah Salvador
  • The Brain Cloud Western Swing
  • Jakub Józef Orliński Warsaw
  • Ron Mader Travel Specialist
  • MonoNeon Composer
  • Jess Gillam Contemporary Classical Music
  • Laércio de Freitas Actor
  • MicroTrio de Ivan Huol MicroTrio
  • Bai Kamara Jr. Brussels, Belgium
  • Gregory Tardy Jazz
  • Pedro Abib Salvador
  • Mike Compton Nashville, Tennessee
  • Renato Braz Brazil
  • Airto Moreira Jazz
  • Meddy Gerville Composer
  • Sarz Nigeria
  • Amitava Kumar India
  • Sara Gazarek Los Angeles
  • Urânia Munzanzu Salvador
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh Radio Presenter
  • Mona Lisa Saloy Poet
  • Gabi Guedes Percussion
  • Alex Rawls Music Writer
  • Tessa Hadley Short Stories
  • Greg Kot Music Critic
  • Johnny Vidacovich New Orleans
  • Horace Bray Funk
  • Eric Harland Composer
  • Bill Pearis Journalist
  • Parker Ighile Multi-Cultural
  • Miroslav Tadić Guitar
  • Denzel Curry Singer-Songwriter
  • João Callado Brazilian Jazz
  • Ed Roth Keyboards
  • Brian Blade Composer
  • Mike Moreno Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Chris Boardman Orchestrator
  • Uli Geissendoerfer Jazz
  • Rogério Caetano Violão de Sete
  • Casa PretaHub Cachoeira Espaço de Coworking, Coworking Space
  • Kurt Andersen New York City
  • Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh Hardanger d'Amoré 10-string Fiddle
  • Linda May Han Oh Jazz
  • Maladitso Band Lilongwe
  • J. Cunha Cenógrafo, Scenographer
  • Brian Lynch Jazz
  • Willy Schwarz Jewish Music
  • Bonerama Jazz
  • Kevin Burke Fiddle
  • Colm Tóibín Ireland
  • Mestre Nenel Capoeira
  • Huey Morgan Author
  • Evgeny Kissin Short Stories
  • Felipe Guedes Guitar
  • Paulo Paulelli Brazil
  • James Gavin Journalist
  • Fapy Lafertin Manouche
  • Casa PretaHub Cachoeira Bahia
  • Derek Sivers Singer-Songwriter
  • Jan Ramsey Magazine Publisher
  • Pedro Aznar Film Scores
  • Kris Davis New York City
  • Liz Dany Choreographer
  • Anoushka Shankar Author
  • Carl Allen Jazz
  • Ethan Iverson Writer
  • Congahead World Music
  • Perumal Murugan Short Stories
  • Kiko Souza Ska
  • Johnathan Blake Composer
  • Alex Conde Composer
  • Ênio Bernardes Bahia
  • Saileog Ní Cheannabháin Classical Music
  • Roy Nathanson Arranger
  • Emmet Cohen New York City
  • Igor Levit Berlin
  • Ronald Bruner Jr. Jazz
  • Jamie Dupuis Banjo
  • Leyla McCalla New Orleans
  • Mou Brasil Guitarra, Guitar
  • Lenny Kravitz Record Producer
  • Roosevelt Collier Lap Steel Guitar
  • The Assad Brothers Brazil
  • Chris Dave Gospel
  • Arifan Junior Diretor Musical, Music Director
  • Benoit Fader Keita Techno
  • Mickalene Thomas Installation Artist
  • Lakecia Benjamin Ropeadope
  • Nêgah Santos New York City
  • Edil Pacheco Brazil
  • Giovanni Russonello Magazine Founder, Editor
  • Lucía Fumero Composer
  • Tab Benoit Blues
  • Karla Vasquez Food Writer
  • Xenia França São Paulo
  • Warren Wolf Bass
  • Wynton Marsalis Composer
  • Forrest Hylton Brazil
  • Kamasi Washington Saxophone
  • William Parker Jazz
  • Larry Achiampong Multidisciplinary Artist
  • Chris Dave Jazz
  • Liron Meyuhas Composer
  • David Castillo New Orleans
  • Chris Speed Avant-Garde Jazz
  • Jonathan Griffin BBC
  • Yasushi Nakamura New York City
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Journalist
  • Jorge Pita Brazil
  • Carl Allen Jazz Workshops
  • Augustin Hadelich New York City
  • Mick Goodrick Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Clint Smith Writer
  • Flora Purim Percussion
  • Juliana Ribeiro Musicologist
  • Nelson Cerqueira Salvador
  • PATRICKTOR4 Bahia
  • Neo Muyanga Piano
  • Clarice Assad Brazil
  • Joe Newberry Guitar
  • Nathan Amaral Brazil
  • Maia Sharp Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Ceumar Coelho Singer-Songwriter
  • Gustavo Di Dalva Percussion Instruction Online
  • Rodrigo Caçapa São Paulo
  • Paul McKenna Scottish Traditional Music
  • Little Dragon Synthpop
  • Marco Pereira Choro
  • Terence Blanchard Film Scores
  • Flora Purim Brazil
  • Jonathon Grasse Guitar
  • Chris Dingman Jazz
  • Fred Hersch Classical Music
  • Léo Rugero São Paulo
  • Restaurante Axego Afro-Bahian Cuisine
  • Shannon Sims Writer
  • Roberto Mendes Singer-Songwriter
  • Bobby Fouther Educator
  • Philip Cashian Contemporary Classical Music
  • Gavin Marwick Multi-Cultural
  • Marcel Powell Guitar
  • D.D. Jackson Film Scores
  • Margaret Renkl Journalist
  • Gord Sheard Multi-Cultural
  • Jeff Ballard New York City
  • Richie Pena Writer
  • Cara Stacey Johannesburg
  • Alain Mabanckou Novelist
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba Piano
  • Los Muñequitos de Matanzas Rumba
  • Ana Luisa Barral Brazil
  • Katuka Africanidades Salvador
  • Leo Genovese Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Jonga Cunha Salvador
  • Adriano Souza Bossa Nova
  • Alain Pérez Cuba
  • Michael Peha Guitar
  • Gab Ferruz Bahia
  • Sombrinha Samba
  • Issa Malluf Middle Eastern Percussion
  • Leon Bridges R&B
  • Martyn Drum and Bass
  • Fidelis Melo Assessor de Comunicação, Public Relations
  • Chano Domínguez Flamenco
  • Jess Gillam Saxophone
  • André Becker Salvador
  • Merima Ključo Klezmer
  • Alan Brain Peru
  • Ali Jackson Jazz
  • Zigaboo Modeliste Second Line
  • Juliana Ribeiro Brazil

 'mātriks / "source" / from "mater", Latin for "mother"
We're a real mother for ya!

 

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