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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.

 

  • Pururu Mão no Couro
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Criador acima/Creator above

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Pururu Mão no Couro
  • City/Place: Salvador, Bahia
  • Country: Brazil

Life & Work

  • Bio: Pururu is a percussionist/composer from the Salvador neighborhood of Candeal. He's played with Riachão, Raymundo Sodré, Mateus Aleluia, Bule Bule, Firmino de Itapoan, Carlinhos Brown, Ivete Sangalo and others.

    His current band is Feijão Balanço, working in a swinging Brazilian style made famous by Jorge Ben, sambalanço.

Contact Information

  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: +55 (71) 99220-0883

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YOU RECOMMEND

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 Pururu Mão no Couro:

  • 1 Bahia
  • 1 Brasil, Brazil
  • 1 Chula
  • 1 Compositor, Songwriter
  • 1 Percussão, Percussion
  • 1 Salvador
  • 1 Samba
  • 1 Samba Rock
  • 1 Sambalanço
  • Moacyr Luz Samba
  • Anthony Coleman Klezmer
  • Immanuel Wilkins New York City
  • Africania Samba de Roda
  • Glória Bomfim Samba de Roda
  • Colm Tóibín Novelist
  • Hot Dougie's Brasil
  • Carwyn Ellis Samba
  • Robertinho Silva Composer
  • Magda Giannikou Piano
  • Léo Rodrigues Frevo
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Brazil
  • Jason Marsalis Vibraphone
  • Román Díaz Santeria
  • Itamar Vieira Júnior Salvador
  • Jay Mazza New Orleans
  • Harvey G. Cohen King's College London Faculty
  • Capitão Corisco Folk & Traditional
  • Dezron Douglas Bass
  • Márcia Short Salvador
  • Nicholas Payton Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Tom Zé Singer-Songwriter
  • Onisajé Dramaturga, Playwright
  • Eamonn Flynn Singer-Songwriter
  • Plinio Oyò Viola Machete
  • Mestre Nelito Brazil
  • Gabriel Geszti MPB
  • Martin Koenig Liner Notes
  • Joel Guzmán Tejano
  • Bob Bernotas Writer
  • Edsel Gomez Latin Jazz
  • Guinga Composer
  • Tessa Hadley Non-Fiction
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Television Writer
  • Dezron Douglas Double Bass
  • Gian Correa Violão de Sete
  • Andrew Finn Magill Appalachian Music
  • Hopkinson Smith Basel
  • Willie Jones III Jazz
  • Zé Luíz Nascimento Percussion
  • Owen Williams Developer
  • Bule Bule Repente
  • Cedric Watson Singer-Songwriter
  • Nancy Viégas Indie Experimental
  • Lucian Ban Piano
  • As Ganhadeiras de Itapuã Brazil
  • Alexa Tarantino Jazz at Lincoln Center Faculty
  • Booker T. Jones R&B
  • Dan Tyminski Bluegrass
  • Jimmy Cliff Singer-Songwriter
  • Paulinho do Reco Percussion
  • Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin Ireland
  • Dumpstaphunk Funk
  • Tele Novella Psych Pop
  • David Ritz Lyricist
  • Cleber Augusto Guitar
  • Ben Harper Blues
  • Omari Jazz Portland, Oregon
  • Stormzy Writer
  • Virgínia Rodrigues Singer
  • Yazhi Guo 郭雅志 Jazz
  • Marcus Miller Clarinet
  • Issa Malluf Doumbek
  • Henry Cole Puerto Rico
  • Mika Mutti Salvador
  • MonoNeon Memphis, Tennessee
  • Mônica Salmaso Brazil
  • Patrice Quinn Actor
  • Roy Nathanson Saxophone
  • Henrique Cazes Bandolim
  • Iroko Trio Latin American Music
  • Luques Curtis Latin Jazz
  • Caridad De La Luz Puerto Rico
  • Curly Strings Folk & Traditional
  • Custódio Castelo Castelo Branco
  • Michael Cuscuna Jazz
  • Mykia Jovan Soul
  • Yunior Terry Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Milton Primo Brazil
  • Andy Kershaw Journalist
  • Leo Nocentelli Funk
  • Echezonachukwu Nduka Nigeria
  • Cut Worms Americana
  • Mateus Aleluia Samba
  • Doug Wamble Record Producer
  • Savoy Family Cajun Band Louisiana
  • Lenine Singer-Songwriter
  • Aurino de Jesus Bahia
  • Echezonachukwu Nduka Writer
  • Greg Kot Writer
  • Helen Shaw Theater Critic
  • Shemekia Copeland Blues
  • Clint Smith Poet
  • Rowney Scott Compositor, Composer
  • Gustavo Di Dalva Singer
  • Issa Malluf Udu
  • Kurt Rosenwinkel Record Label Owner
  • Varijashree Venugopal Composer
  • Nahre Sol Classical Music
  • Giveton Gelin Jazz
  • Issa Malluf Percussion
  • Marcelo Caldi Samba
  • Hilton Schilder Cape Town
  • Fabiana Cozza Singer
  • Tomoko Omura Jazz
  • Eduardo Kobra Grafiteiro, Graffiti Artist
  • Custódio Castelo Fado
  • Woody Mann Guitar
  • Beth Bahia Cohen Hardingfele
  • Ramita Navai London
  • Luizinho Assis Salvador
  • Manu Chao Singer-Songwriter
  • Alex Clark Digital Media Producer
  • Plinio Oyò Brasil, Brazil
  • Andrew Huang Toronto
  • Cathal McNaughton Ireland
  • Carl Allen Jazz Workshops
  • Matthew F Fisher Collaborative Artist
  • Yamandu Costa Choro
  • Bodek Janke Jazz
  • Edmar Colón Saxophone
  • Keshav Batish Drums
  • John Archibald Alabama
  • Mono/Poly Music Producer
  • Ajurinã Zwarg Saxophone
  • Roy Ayers New York City
  • Anna Mieke Irish Folk Music
  • Marisa Monte Brazil
  • Elza Soares Samba
  • Fernando Brandão Samba
  • Andra Day Pop
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Dance Club
  • McCoy Mrubata Composer
  • Júlio Lemos Composer
  • Ivan Bastos Violão, Guitar
  • Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah Multi-Cultural
  • Guto Wirtti Guitar
  • Jupiter Bokondji Congo
  • Roberto Mendes Brazil
  • Jorge Aragão Rio de Janeiro
  • Gustavo Caribé Baixo, Bass
  • Lizz Wright Singer
  • Brenda Navarrete Percussion
  • Cássio Nobre Viola Machete
  • Al Kooper Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Natalia Contesse Chilean Folk Music
  • André Becker Bahia
  • Saileog Ní Cheannabháin Raelach Records
  • Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin Irish Traditional Music
  • Sabine Hossenfelder Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
  • Simon Singh Mathematics
  • Hugues Mbenda Congolese Cuisine
  • The Umoza Music Project Senga Bay
  • Trilok Gurtu Multi-Cultural
  • Abhijith P. S. Nair Indian Classical Music
  • André Becker Jazz Brasileiro, Brazilian Jazz
  • Susana Baca Folklorist
  • Shemekia Copeland Singer
  • Teodor Currentzis Classical Music
  • Corey Harris Folk & Traditional
  • Wilson Simoninha MPB
  • Eliane Elias Brazil
  • Ivan Sacerdote Composer
  • John Patitucci Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Benny Benack III Trumpet
  • Felipe Guedes Brazilian Jazz
  • Chris Potter Composer
  • Simone Sou São Paulo
  • Chick Corea Jazz
  • June Yamagishi Funk
  • Philip Watson Journalist
  • 9Bach Welsh Traditional Music
  • Leandro Afonso Film Producer
  • Alicia Keys Singer-Songwriter
  • Pasquale Grasso Guitar
  • Bule Bule Samba
  • Angel Bat Dawid Chicago
  • Mauro Senise Saxophone
  • Joshua Redman Jazz
  • Mou Brasil Compositor, Composer
  • Elizabeth LaPrelle Banjo
  • Dónal Lunny Ireland
  • Curly Strings Americana
  • Jeff Preiss Director
  • Zara McFarlane Soul
  • Casa Preta Teatro, Theater
  • Andrew Huang Guitar
  • Errollyn Wallen Contemporary Classical Music
  • Congahead Photographer
  • Luques Curtis Afro-Latin Dance Music
  • Shalom Adonai Samba Rural
  • Run the Jewels Hip-Hop
  • Eli Saslow Journalist
  • Lakecia Benjamin Funk
  • Marcello Gonçalves Violão de Sete
  • Thiago Espírito Santo Jazz
  • Aruán Ortiz Cuba
  • Marc Ribot Punk
  • Andrew Dickson London
  • Anthony Hamilton Los Angeles
  • A-KILL Graffiti Artist
  • Spok Frevo Orquestra Frevo
  • Elio Villafranca Juilliard Faculty
  • Les Filles de Illighadad Tuareg Music
  • Armen Donelian Author
  • Sharita Towne Video Artist
  • Lula Galvão Classical Guitar
  • Swizz Beatz Record Producer
  • Archie Shepp Playwright
  • Juçara Marçal São Paulo
  • Marcus Printup Composer
  • Alain Pérez Big Band
  • Linda May Han Oh New York City
  • Airto Moreira Singer
  • Zeca Pagodinho Singer-Songwriter
  • Lucinda Williams Country
  • Yunior Terry Jazz
  • Gail Ann Dorsey Bass
  • Christopher Nupen Classical Music
  • Kiya Tabassian كيا طبسيان Montreal
  • Karla Vasquez Chef
  • Eddie Palmieri Latin Jazz
  • Brooklyn Rider String Quartet
  • OVANA Singers-Songwriters
  • Nicholas Gill Food Writer
  • Brad Ogbonna Filmmaker
  • Rogê Brazil
  • Brandon J. Acker Classical Guitar
  • Samba de Lata Bahia
  • Afrocidade Brazil
  • Paulo Costa Lima Brasil, Brazil
  • Joe Lovano Flute
  • Alê Siqueira Brazil
  • Forrest Hylton Salvador
  • VJ Gabiru Bahia
  • Abel Selaocoe Manchester
  • Sameer Gupta Jazz
  • Jared Sims Composer
  • Johnny Vidacovich Jazz
  • James Carter Jazz
  • Pierre Onassis Samba Reggae
  • Jake Oleson Filmmaker
  • Dan Moretti Composer
  • Sharay Reed Gospel
  • Noam Pikelny Nashville, Tennessee
  • Wolfgang Muthspiel Guitar
  • The Bayou Mosquitos Cajun Music
  • Paul Mahern Singer-Songwriter
  • Michael Janisch Double Bass
  • Alegre Corrêa Florianópolis
  • Catherine Bent Boston
  • Gabi Guedes Salvador
  • Mandla Buthelezi Jazz
  • Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh Violin
  • Simon Singh Journalist
  • John Medeski Jazz
  • Sahba Aminikia Composer
  • Jim Hoke Nashville, TN
  • Nate Smith Television Scores
  • Paulinho do Reco Candomblé
  • Lakecia Benjamin Saxophone
  • Michael League Multi-Cultural
  • Samba de Lata Samba de Roda
  • John Waters Songwriter
  • Adam Rogers Jazz
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Television Scores
  • Bebê Kramer Rio de Janeiro
  • Tonynho dos Santos Brasil, Brazil
  • Bruce Williams Saxophone
  • Nabihah Iqbal DJ
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Japan
  • Rudy Royston Jazz
  • Ari Rosenschein Indie Pop
  • Tshepiso Ledwaba University of South Africa Staff
  • Ravi Coltrane Brooklyn, NY
  • Ed O'Brien Singer-Songwriter
  • Guillermo Klein Jazz
  • Gilad Hekselman Israel
  • Paulo Aragão Composer
  • Mike Compton Mandolin
  • J. Pierre New Orleans
  • Horace Bray Guitar
  • Tyshawn Sorey Avant-Garde Jazz
  • Carwyn Ellis Multi-Cultural
  • David Ngwerume Harare
  • John Archibald Podcaster
  • Leo Genovese Keyboards
  • Corey Harris Reggae
  • Matt Ulery Contemporary Classical Music
  • Keyon Harrold R&B
  • Negra Jhô Turbantes, Turbans
  • James Grime Mathematics
  • César Camargo Mariano Brazilian Jazz
  • Jon Faddis Purchase College Conservatory of Music Faculty
  • Menelaw Sete Escultor, Sculptor
  • Larry Grenadier Basel Music Academy Faculty
  • Yoron Israel Jazz
  • Lula Galvão Arranger
  • Sheryl Bailey Guitar
  • Jonga Cunha Bahia
  • Ken Avis Documentary Filmmaker
  • Stephen Guerra Bronx Conservatory of Music Faculty
  • James Carter Contemporary Classical Music
  • Terrace Martin Hip-Hop
  • Vijay Iyer Harvard University Faculty
  • Courtney Pine Flute
  • Barry Harris New York City
  • Ray Angry Record Producer
  • Yoko Miwa Composer
  • Marquis Hill Hip-Hop
  • Lula Moreira Samba de Coco
  • D.D. Jackson Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College Faculty
  • Bonerama Jazz
  • Garvia Bailey Arts Journalist
  • Alicia Keys Piano
  • Bob Reynolds Composer
  • Matt Glaser Fiddle
  • Ronell Johnson Funk
  • Ofer Mizrahi Trumpet
  • Regina Carter Classical Music
  • Jorge Washington Cultural Producer
  • J. Cunha Salvador
  • Alfredo Rodriguez New York City
  • Walter Pinheiro Choro
  • Orrin Evans Composer
  • Amitava Kumar Screenwriter
  • Gerônimo Santana MPB
  • John Harle Record Producer
  • Garth Cartwright Journalist
  • Sombrinha Banjo
  • Alana Gabriela Percussão, Percussion
  • Lucian Ban New York City
  • Gretchen Parlato Singer
  • Jason Parham Writer
  • Virgínia Rodrigues Bahia
  • Urânia Munzanzu Bahia
  • Nublu Brazilian Music
  • João Bosco Brazil
  • Orlando Costa Salvador
  • Nelson Cerqueira Poeta, Poet
  • Shamarr Allen Funk
  • Jeff Tweedy Chicago, Illinois
  • Gilson Peranzzetta Piano
  • Eric Alexander Jazz
  • Wolfgang Muthspiel Composer
  • Branford Marsalis Theater Composer
  • Mike Marshall Guitar
  • Michael W. Twitty Culinary Historian
  • Alisa Weilerstein Classical Music
  • Archie Shepp Jazz

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

 

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