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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.

 

  • Ricardo Bacelar
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  • Name: Ricardo Bacelar
  • City/Place: Fortaleza, Ceará
  • Country: Brazil

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  • Bio: Ricardo Bacelar is a pianist, composer, and lawyer specializing in royalties.

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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 Ricardo Bacelar:

  • 2 Advogado, Lawyer
  • 2 Brasil, Brazil
  • 2 Ceará
  • 2 Compositor, Composer
  • 2 Direitos Autorais, Royalties
  • 2 Fortaleza
  • 2 Jazz Brasileiro, Brazilian Jazz
  • 2 MPB
  • 2 Piano
  • Mario Ulloa Brazil
  • Linda May Han Oh Double Bass
  • João Teoria Brasil, Brazil
  • Horace Bray Guitar
  • Anouar Brahem Jazz
  • Mariene de Castro Samba de Roda
  • Jerry Douglas Music Director
  • David Byrne Singer-Songwriter
  • Little Dragon Sweden
  • María Grand Singer
  • Magary Lord Salvador
  • Tarus Mateen Bass
  • Zé Katimba Cavaquinho
  • Rema Namakula Kampala
  • Joel Guzmán Tex-Mex
  • Tommy Orange Short Stories
  • Bebê Kramer Choro
  • Merima Ključo Sephardic Music
  • Barlavento Bahia
  • Gilsons Salvador
  • Duane Benjamin Orchestrator
  • Benjamin Grosvenor London
  • Helado Negro Singer-Songwriter
  • Jeremy Danneman Film Scores
  • Beeple Graphic Designer
  • César Camargo Mariano Piano
  • Myron Walden Composer
  • William Parker Essayist
  • Paulinho do Reco Samba
  • Weedie Braimah Pan-African Culture
  • James Shapiro Columbia University Faculty
  • Chris Thile Classical Music
  • Judith Hill Soul
  • Wynton Marsalis Classical Music
  • Carwyn Ellis Experimental Music
  • Marcelo Caldi Rio de Janeiro
  • Arthur Verocai Singer-Songwriter
  • Chris Cheek New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music Faculty
  • Nguyên Lê Composer
  • Mikki Kunttu Set Designer
  • Onisajé Salvador
  • Paul McKenna Scotland
  • Charlie Bolden Trumpet
  • Nancy Viégas Produtora Áudiovisual, Audiovisual Producer
  • Christian Sands Composer
  • Burhan Öçal Kös
  • Chris Dingman Jazz
  • Jason Treuting Composer
  • Hua Hsu Writer
  • Aneesa Strings Composer
  • Nabihah Iqbal Electronic, Experimental, Alternative Music
  • Errollyn Wallen Piano
  • Ryan Keberle Melodica
  • Mohini Dey Bass
  • Doug Wamble New York City
  • Geraldo Azevedo MPB
  • Donna Leon Crime Novels
  • Onisajé Candomblé
  • Dadá do Trombone Salvador
  • Zara McFarlane Soul
  • Taylor Eigsti New York City
  • Cashmere Cat Hip-Hop
  • Georgia Anne Muldrow Neo-Soul
  • Jimmy Dludlu AfroJazz
  • Michael Janisch Soul
  • David Castillo Pierce College Faculty
  • Dhafer Youssef ظافر يوسف Oud
  • Stanton Moore Funk
  • Glória Bomfim Afoxé
  • Rogério Caetano Violão de Sete
  • Justin Brown Jazz
  • Nicolas Krassik Jazz
  • Diana Fuentes Singer-Songwriter
  • Sara Gazarek USC Thornton School of Music Faculty
  • Thiago Amud Singer-Songwriter
  • Renell Medrano New York City
  • Oscar Bolão Percussion
  • Deesha Philyaw Columnist
  • Marc Johnson MPB
  • David Hepworth Music Journalist
  • Tigran Hamasyan Armenian Folk Music
  • 小野リサ Lisa Ono Multi-Cultural
  • Tommy Orange Writer
  • Juliana Ribeiro Musicologist
  • Yamandu Costa Samba
  • Tony Austin Film Scores
  • Archie Shepp Playwright
  • Sheryl Bailey Author
  • Antonio García Virginia Commonwealth University Faculty
  • Adam O'Farrill Multi-Cultural
  • Kenyon Dixon Los Angeles
  • Ben Paris Brazil
  • Immanuel Wilkins NYU Faculty
  • J. Cunha Artista Plástico, Artist
  • Tommy Orange Short Stories
  • Larry Grenadier Composer
  • Mario Caldato Jr. Bass
  • David Ngwerume Harare
  • Hisham Mayet DJ
  • Mary Norris Writer
  • David Castillo Actor
  • Hugo Linns Brazil
  • Nabihah Iqbal Singer-Songwriter
  • Fabiana Cozza São Paulo
  • Demond Melancon Louisiana
  • Angel Deradoorian Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Thiago Trad Percussão, Percussion
  • Tank and the Bangas Spoken Word
  • Nate Smith Drums
  • Berkun Oya Actor
  • Chris Acquavella Germany
  • Bing Futch Mountain Dulcimer
  • Kim André Arnesen Choral Works
  • Gabrielzinho do Irajá Singer
  • Dezron Douglas Record Producer
  • Billy O'Shea Writer
  • Norah Jones Singer-Songwriter
  • Diedrich Diederichsen Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Faculty
  • Cory Wong Funk
  • Carlinhos 7 Cordas Brazil
  • Rosângela Silvestre Candomblé
  • Robert Glasper Jazz
  • Guillermo Klein Composer
  • Perumal Murugan Writer
  • Jack Talty Composer
  • 9Bach Multi-Cultural
  • Ivan Sacerdote Salvador
  • THE ROOM Shibuya DJs
  • Morgan Page House
  • Martin Koenig Ethnomusicologist
  • Dhafer Youssef ظافر يوسف Tunisia
  • Yvette Holzwarth Multi-Cultural
  • Tommaso Zillio Guitar
  • Jonathan Scales Multi-Cultural
  • Adam Cruz New York City
  • Sahba Aminikia Composer
  • Samuel Organ Keyboards
  • Jura Margulis Classical Music
  • Paulo Paulelli MPB
  • Gustavo Di Dalva Salvador
  • Gui Duvignau Brazil
  • Maria Bethânia MPB
  • Matt Ulery Chicago
  • Tonynho dos Santos Jazz
  • Asa Branca Federal University of Bahia Faculty
  • Zeca Pagodinho Brazil
  • Rez Abbasi Pakistani Music
  • OVANA Africa
  • Will Holshouser Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music Faculty
  • Andrew Finn Magill Irish Traditional Music
  • Yazhi Guo 郭雅志 Chinese Traditional Music
  • Dr. Lonnie Smith Hammond B-3
  • Arto Lindsay Brazil
  • Hugo Linns Pernambuco
  • Ferenc Nemeth Drumming Instruction
  • Yazhi Guo 郭雅志 Saxophone
  • Jimmy Cliff Singer-Songwriter
  • Patricia Janečková Opera
  • Mary Norris New York City
  • Jeff Tang Creative Producer
  • Chau do Pife Pífano
  • Alana Gabriela Percussão, Percussion
  • Jared Jackson Columbia Faculty
  • Béla Fleck Multi-Cultural
  • Guto Wirtti Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Etienne Charles Michigan State University Faculty
  • Joshua White Piano
  • Ben Monder Composer
  • Barry Harris Piano
  • Marcus Gilmore Composer
  • Peter Serkin Contemporary Classical Music
  • Sérgio Pererê Minas Gerais
  • Mariana Zwarg Saxophone
  • Samba de Lata Samba
  • Monty's Good Burger Vegan Burgers
  • Avishai Cohen New York City
  • Arthur Verocai Piano
  • Vânia Oliveira Candomblé
  • Marília Sodré Chula
  • Joshua Redman Composer
  • Andrew Huang Guitar
  • James Strauss Contemporary Classical Music
  • McCoy Mrubata Composer
  • Matt Parker Comedian
  • Maria Bethânia Bahia
  • Welson Tremura Ethnomusicologist
  • Darren Barrett Flugelhorn
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Salvador
  • Julien Libeer Classical Music
  • Antonio García Film Scores
  • Phakama Mbonambi Publisher
  • Ronaldo Bastos Rio de Janeiro
  • Patrice Quinn Actor
  • Harvey G. Cohen Political Historian
  • Brentano String Quartet Yale School of Music
  • David Byrne New York City
  • Don Byron Jazz
  • Scotty Apex Singer
  • Paulo Martelli Brazilian Classical Guitar
  • Léo Rugero Film Scores
  • Corey Henry Second Line
  • Arthur Verocai Guitar
  • Ajeum da Diáspora Brazil
  • Ari Hoenig Drums
  • João Luiz Brazil
  • Plinio Oyò Camaçari
  • Caetano Veloso Salvador
  • Booker T. Jones Songwriter
  • Sameer Gupta Tabla
  • Marília Sodré Bahia
  • Kiko Souza Bahia
  • Nancy Viégas Salvador
  • J. Cunha Brasil, Brazil
  • Henrique Araújo Choro
  • Domingos Preto Bahia
  • Howard Levy Harmonica
  • Jonathon Grasse Brazilian Music
  • Merima Ključo Balkan Music
  • Casa da Mãe Brasil, Brazil
  • Bebê Kramer Composer
  • Alê Siqueira Record Producer
  • Virgínia Rodrigues Bahia
  • Raelis Vasquez Drawings
  • Diosmar Filho Bahia
  • Avishai Cohen אבישי כה Record Label Owner
  • Mauro Diniz Singer-Songwriter
  • Liz Pelly Writer
  • Jon Faddis Jazz
  • Pierre Onassis Salvador
  • Bobby Fouther Portland, Oregon
  • Darrell Green Composer
  • Horácio Reis Bahia
  • Matt Ulery Bass
  • Bill Frisell Jazz
  • Paulinho Fagundes Composer
  • Sabine Hossenfelder Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
  • Gal Costa Singer
  • Jorge Ben Rio de Janeiro
  • Olga Mieleszczuk Jerusalem
  • Linda May Han Oh Composer
  • Şener Özmen Photographer
  • Mahsa Vahdat Persian Classical Music
  • Wynton Marsalis Trumpet
  • Timothy Duffy New Orleans
  • David Virelles Composer
  • Tia Fuller Composer
  • Ayrson Heráclito Multimedia Artist
  • Andrew Finn Magill Fiddle
  • Zigaboo Modeliste Second Line
  • Arthur Verocai Rio de Janeiro
  • Elif Şafak Essayist
  • Mino Cinélu Composer
  • Manassés de Souza 12 String Guitar
  • Afrocidade Dub
  • Dale Farmer Fiddle
  • Leo Nocentelli Songwriter
  • Laércio de Freitas Brazil
  • Anna Webber Avant-Garde Jazz
  • Manassés de Souza Ceará
  • Branford Marsalis Jazz
  • Sheryl Bailey Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Ricardo Bacelar Compositor, Composer
  • Andra Day R&B
  • Ênio Bernardes Brasil, Brazil
  • Tony Trischka Composer
  • Cory Henry Jazz
  • Matt Ulery Multi-Cultural
  • Olga Mieleszczuk Poland
  • Spok Frevo Orquestra Pernambuco
  • Dan Tyminski Bluegrass
  • Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro Rio de Janeiro
  • Missy Mazolli Composer
  • Moacyr Luz Rio de Janeiro
  • Nora Fischer Classical Music
  • Oteil Burbridge Funk
  • José Antonio Escobar Barcelona
  • Spok Frevo Orquestra Big Band
  • Giba Gonçalves Percussion
  • Issa Malluf Percussion
  • Leon Parker Jazz
  • Wolfgang Muthspiel Guitar
  • Burhan Öçal Turkish Music
  • Issa Malluf Daf
  • Aneesa Strings Composer
  • Henrique Araújo São Paulo
  • Matt Glaser Fiddle
  • Msaki Singer-Songwriter
  • Billy O'Shea Science Fiction
  • Ravi Coltrane Saxophone
  • Victor Gama Multimedia Opera
  • Alicia Svigals Violin
  • Alex de Mora Documentary Filmmaker
  • Mohamed Diab Egypt
  • Ballaké Sissoko Bamako
  • Shez Raja London
  • Denzel Curry Los Angeles
  • Eric Harland Drums
  • Plinio Oyò Chula
  • Papa Mali Record Producer
  • Jimmy Dludlu Cape Town
  • Burhan Öçal Kudüm
  • Danilo Brito Bandolim
  • Larry Grenadier Bass
  • Mario Caldato Jr. Keyboards
  • Kiko Horta Rio de Janeiro
  • Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh Theater Composer
  • Anoushka Shankar Tanpura
  • Amilton Godoy São Paulo
  • Gilson Peranzzetta Record Producer
  • Alexandre Gismonti Guitar
  • Manassés de Souza Viola de Doze
  • Ambrose Akinmusire Trumpet
  • Sierra Hull Guitar
  • Peter Mulvey Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Román Díaz Percussion
  • Marcelo Caldi Choro
  • Pasquale Grasso New York City
  • Pedro Abib Brazil
  • Alessandro Penezzi Choro
  • The Weeknd Singer-Songwriter
  • J. Cunha Designer Gráfico, Graphic Designer
  • Angel Bat Dawid Black American Traditional Music
  • Albin Zak Musicologist
  • Yuja Wang China
  • Anders Osborne Singer-Songwriter
  • Bobby Vega San Francisco, California
  • Guinha Ramires Rio Grande do Sul
  • Danilo Caymmi Flute
  • Donald Vega Jazz
  • Yvette Holzwarth Contemporary Classical Music
  • Cécile Fromont Yale Faculty
  • Aubrey Johnson Queens College Faculty
  • Francisco Mela Cuba
  • Ofer Mizrahi Trumpet
  • Olga Mieleszczuk Warsaw
  • Mika Mutti Brazil
  • Gel Barbosa Acordeon, Accordion
  • John Morrison Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Victoria Sur Colombia
  • Bing Futch Americana
  • Filhos da Pitangueira Bahia
  • Fernando Brandão Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Maciel Salú Cavalo Marinho
  • Collins Omondi Okello Kenya
  • Scott Kettner Drums
  • Asali Solomon Short Stories
  • Moacyr Luz Brazil
  • John Harle Film Scores
  • Lucinda Williams Nashville, Tennessee
  • Nelson Cerqueira Poeta, Poet

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We're a real mother for ya!

 

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