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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...

 

It 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..."

 

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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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 Ricky (Dirty Red) Gordon:

  • 2 Composer
  • 2 Drums
  • 2 Frottoir
  • 2 Jazz
  • 2 Louisiana
  • 2 New Orleans
  • 2 Percussion
  • 2 Second Line
  • 2 Washboard
  • 2 Zydeco
  • Estrela Brilhante do Recife Maracatu
  • Gerônimo Santana Brazil
  • Avner Dorman Composer
  • Fernando Brandão Author
  • Zakir Hussain Indian Classical Music
  • Luke Daniels Scotland
  • Gaby Moreno Guatemala
  • Sharay Reed Jazz
  • Mariana Zwarg Rio de Janeiro
  • Gui Duvignau Brooklyn, NY
  • Gerald Clayton Piano
  • Erika Goldring Photographer
  • Alessandro Penezzi Samba
  • Celso Fonseca Songwriter
  • Marta Sánchez New York City
  • Ibrahim Maalouf Composer
  • RAM Haiti
  • Jean Rondeau Composer
  • Eddie Kadi Comedian
  • Ferenc Nemeth Drums
  • Tobias Meinhart Saxophone
  • Gustavo Caribé Brasil, Brazil
  • Moreno Veloso Singer-Songwriter
  • Di Freitas Brazil
  • Serwah Attafuah Punk
  • Jurandir Santana Composer
  • Sérgio Mendes Rio de Janeiro
  • Tyshawn Sorey Avant-Garde Jazz
  • Gilad Hekselman Guitar
  • Sam Yahel New York City
  • Michel Camilo Jazz
  • Simone Sou Drums
  • Sarz Afrobeat
  • Jason Marsalis Vibraphone
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Bahia
  • Keith Jarrett Piano
  • Tonynho dos Santos Guitarra, Violão, Guitar
  • Stefon Harris Jazz
  • Horace Bray Los Angeles
  • Moreno Veloso MPB
  • Omer Avital Middle Eastern Music
  • Irma Thomas Soul
  • Wayne Krantz Guitar
  • Brentano String Quartet Yale School of Music
  • Arthur Jafa Filmmaker
  • Dan Tepfer Classical Music
  • Nicholas Daniel Guildhall School of Music Staff
  • Terell Stafford Composer
  • Fábio Zanon Royal Academy of Music Visiting Professor
  • Chris McQueen Record Producer
  • Theo Bleckmann Singer
  • Ron Wyman Photographer
  • Jason Moran Piano
  • Anders Osborne Singer-Songwriter
  • Jorge Aragão Multi-Instrumentalist
  • David Chesky Record Label Owner
  • Alicia Keys Art Collector
  • Nettrice R. Gaskins Ford Global Fellow
  • María Grand New York City
  • Joey Alexander Composer
  • Abel Selaocoe Classical Music
  • Benoit Fader Keita Techno
  • Peter Slevin Northwestern University Faculty
  • Marquis Hill Composer
  • Gabriel Geszti Piano
  • Edward P. Jones Novelist
  • Matt Glaser Fiddle
  • Gustavo Di Dalva Salvador
  • Lucio Yanel Argentina
  • Jared Sims Ropeadope
  • Antônio Queiroz Bahia
  • Marcel Powell Samba
  • Chris McQueen App Developer
  • Elizabeth LaPrelle Virginia
  • Hanif Abdurraqib Poet
  • Kiko Freitas Jazz
  • Abel Selaocoe Multi-Cultural
  • Michael Janisch Record Producer
  • Dadá do Trombone Jazz Afro-Baiano, Afro-Bahian Jazz
  • Endea Owens Jazz
  • Ferenc Nemeth Drumming Instruction
  • Yola Singer-Songwriter
  • Mou Brasil Brasil, Brazil
  • Chris Thile Americana
  • Atlantic Brass Quintet Baroque
  • Mateus Alves Pernambuco
  • King Britt Live Producer
  • Loli Molina Guitar
  • John Donohue New York City
  • Juliana Ribeiro Brazil
  • Paquito D'Rivera Cuba
  • Jonathan Scales Multi-Cultural
  • Rez Abbasi Multi-Cultural
  • Ethan Iverson Writer
  • Neymar Dias Viola Caipira
  • Ray Angry Record Producer
  • Musa Okwonga Podcaster
  • Alexandre Vieira Jazz
  • Leonardo Mendes Bahia
  • Zé Luíz Nascimento Multi-Cultural
  • Mônica Salmaso Singer
  • Billy Strings Singer
  • Simon Brook Writer
  • Amy K. Bormet Jazz
  • Joe Newberry Banjo Instruction
  • João Camarero Rio de Janeiro
  • Ivan Huol Drums
  • Al Kooper Record Producer
  • Margareth Menezes Bahia
  • Dr. Lonnie Smith Hammond B-3
  • Zeca Pagodinho Brazil
  • Armandinho Macêdo Choro
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba University of Miami Frost School of Music Faculty
  • Hopkinson Smith Vihuela
  • Bob Mintzer USC Thornton School of Music Faculty
  • Colson Whitehead Literary Critic
  • Anat Cohen Brazilian Music
  • Johnny Lorenz Essayist
  • Louis Marks Record Label Owner
  • Orrin Evans Neo Soul, Acid Jazz
  • Julian Lloyd Webber London
  • Gal Costa Salvador
  • Muri Assunção LGBTQ
  • Merima Ključo Accordion
  • Marcelinho Oliveira Keyboards
  • Ariane Astrid Atodji Yaoundé
  • Patty Kiss Multi-Instrumentalista, Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Charles Munka Collage
  • Brad Mehldau Composer
  • Philipp Meyer Writer
  • Joatan Nascimento Trumpet
  • Hendrik Meurkens Jazz
  • Dave Weckl Drums
  • Jamel Brinkley Novelist
  • Toby Gough Writer
  • Brandee Younger New School College of Performing Arts Faculty
  • Natan Drubi Violão, Guitar
  • Negrizu Dançarino, Dancer
  • Ênio Bernardes Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Bertram Writer
  • Clarice Assad Singer
  • Caetano Veloso Salvador
  • Buck Jones Brasil, Brazil
  • Fernando Brandão Composer
  • Oteil Burbridge Funk
  • Jonathon Grasse Contemporary Music
  • Wayne Krantz Guitar Instruction
  • Jorge Ben Singer-Songwriter
  • Forrest Hylton Salvador
  • Mateus Aleluia Filho Salvador
  • Yazz Ahmed Composer
  • Sierra Hull Bluegrass
  • Mariene de Castro Samba de Roda
  • Chris Dave Gospel
  • Adenor Gondim Bahia
  • Duane Benjamin Composer
  • Christopher Seneca New York City
  • Bodek Janke Percussion
  • Ron Miles Composer
  • Shemekia Copeland R&B
  • Larry McCray Singer-Songwriter
  • Cinho Damatta Salvador
  • Carlos Lyra Bossa Nova
  • Miles Mosley Composer
  • David Chesky Piano
  • Monarco Singer-Songwriter
  • Marcello Gonçalves Samba
  • Noam Pikelny Bluegrass
  • Ricardo Herz Brazil
  • David Castillo Moorpark College Faculty
  • Vivien Schweitzer Photographer
  • Dorian Concept Keyboards
  • Jason Parham Writer
  • Eric Alexander Saxophone Instruction
  • Evgeny Kissin Poet
  • André Vasconcellos Jazz Brasileiro, Brazilian Jazz
  • Intisar Abioto Photographer
  • Case Watkins Cultural-Environmental Geographer
  • Arto Tunçboyacıyan Percussion
  • Rissi Palmer Durham, North Carolina
  • Roosevelt Collier Songwriter
  • Guto Wirtti Composer
  • Ramita Navai Tehran
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Samba
  • Chico César São Paulo
  • Chris McQueen Record Producer
  • Aindrias de Staic Ireland
  • Fatoumata Diawara Mali
  • Casey Benjamin R&B
  • Luíz Paixão Cavalo Marinho
  • Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah Ropeadope
  • Marcelinho Oliveira Bahia
  • Robb Royer Screenwriter
  • Carlos Malta Rio de Janeiro
  • Eli Degibri אלי דג'יברי Tel Aviv
  • Theon Cross Composer
  • Mona Lisa Saloy Storyteller
  • Paulinho do Reco Brazil
  • Christopher Wilkinson Movie Director
  • Alex Hargreaves Brooklyn, NY
  • Natan Drubi Samba
  • Diosmar Filho Brasil, Brazil
  • Júlio Caldas Bandolim, Mandolin
  • Terri Lyne Carrington Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Brandon J. Acker Classical Guitar
  • Joshua Abrams Chicago
  • Iuri Passos AFROBIZ Salvador
  • Sarz Record Producer
  • Arismar do Espírito Santo Brazil
  • Jason Treuting Composer
  • Dave Weckl Los Angeles
  • Tyshawn Sorey Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Kiko Loureiro Jazz Fusion
  • Seth Swingle Banjo
  • Moses Sumney Singer-Songwriter
  • Mohamed Diab Filmmaker
  • Terri Hinte Music Writer
  • Dafnis Prieto Cuba
  • Art Rosenbaum Banjo
  • Teodor Currentzis Classical Music
  • Neymar Dias Classical Music
  • Jaleel Shaw Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Casa PretaHub Cachoeira Estúdio de Gravação, Recording Studio
  • Jay Mazza Journalist
  • Matt Garrison App Developer
  • Hilton Schilder South Africa
  • João Rabello Rio de Janeiro
  • Warren Wolf Singer
  • Alexandre Vieira Jazz Brasileiro, Brazilian Jazz
  • Garvia Bailey Writer
  • Evgeny Kissin Piano
  • June Yamagishi Guitar
  • Mauro Senise MPB
  • Mohini Dey India
  • Will Holshouser Musette
  • Jared Sims West Virginia University Faculty
  • Meklit Hadero Singer-Songwriter
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Hip-Hop
  • Eddie Palmieri Bandleader
  • Donald Vega Piano Instruction
  • Eric Coleman Photographer
  • Cassandra Osei Historian of Latin America & African Diaspora
  • Casa da Mãe Restaurante-Bar, Restaurant-Bar
  • Taylor McFerrin Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Karla Vasquez Recipe Developer
  • Mateus Asato Brazil
  • John McWhorter Columbia University Faculty
  • Manassés de Souza Viola de Doze
  • Shuya Okino Japan
  • J. Period DJ
  • Samuel Organ Composer
  • Lionel Loueke Jazz
  • Oswaldo Amorim Escola de Música de Brasília Faculty
  • Marc Cary Composer
  • Chris Cheek Jazz
  • Nublu Multi-Cultural
  • Eddie Kadi Voiceover Artist
  • Camille Thurman Jazz
  • Arthur L.A. Buckner Gospel
  • David Kirby New York City
  • Tray Chaney Record Producer
  • Sabine Hossenfelder Physicist
  • Nana Nkweti Writer
  • Serwah Attafuah Multidisciplinary Artist
  • Joel Best Sculptor
  • Mika Mutti Brazil
  • Gerônimo Santana Trombone
  • Brian Lynch Trumpet
  • Scott Kettner Second Line
  • Ênio Bernardes Brasil, Brazil
  • Steve McKeever Record Label Owner
  • Manolo Badrena Afro-Latin Music
  • Amaro Freitas Recife
  • Banning Eyre African Guitar
  • Gabriel Geszti Acordeon, Accordion
  • Victor Wooten Bass
  • Jon Cowherd Composer
  • John Zorn Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Derrick Hodge Hip-Hop
  • Luis Perdomo New York City
  • Arthur Verocai Guitar
  • Eric Harland Jazz
  • Quatuor Ebène String Quartet
  • TaRon Lockett Singer-Songwriter
  • Pat Metheny Guitar
  • Ryan Keberle Trombone
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto Multi-Cultural
  • Lilli Lewis Singer-Songwriter
  • Mestrinho Forró
  • J. Cunha Brasil, Brazil
  • Lula Galvão Brasília
  • Richie Pena Writer
  • Makaya McCraven Chicago, Illinois
  • Beeple Short Films
  • Curly Strings Estonia
  • Robi Botos Piano
  • Tyshawn Sorey Wesleyan University Faculty
  • Nettrice R. Gaskins Writer
  • Ben Wolfe Juilliard Faculty
  • Mart'nália Brazil
  • Mika Mutti Los Angeles
  • Neo Muyanga South Africa
  • Joanna Majoko Toronto
  • Chico Buarque Rio de Janeiro
  • Simone Sou Brazil
  • João Callado Brazilian Jazz
  • 小野リサ Lisa Ono MPB
  • João Callado Music Producer
  • Márcio Bahia Samba
  • Lula Moreira Documentary Filmmaker
  • Ron Carter Jazz
  • Asali Solomon Writer
  • Nelson Sargento Rio de Janeiro
  • Stan Douglas Filmmaker
  • Luiz Santos Composer
  • Alana Gabriela Salvador
  • Kimmo Pohjonen Accordion
  • Courtney Pine Podcaster
  • Tatiana Campêlo Salvador
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Television Scores
  • Julie Fowlis Scotland
  • Gustavo Di Dalva Percussion
  • Molly Tuttle Americana
  • Gabi Guedes Percussion
  • Catherine Bent Jazz
  • Armandinho Macêdo Bandolim
  • Shuya Okino Kyoto
  • Arthur L.A. Buckner Jazz
  • Jas Kayser London
  • Cláudio Jorge Singer-Songwriter
  • Nicholas Payton Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Aaron Goldberg New York City
  • Plinio Oyò Bahia
  • Sarah Hanahan Saxophone
  • Menelaw Sete Pintor/Painter
  • Shannon Sims Brazil
  • Raynald Colom Composer
  • César Camargo Mariano Brazil
  • Nicolas Krassik Rio de Janeiro
  • Maciel Salú Pernambuco
  • Andrés Prado Lima
  • Diana Fuentes Cuba
  • Bright Red Dog Jazz, Electronica, Hip-Hop, Psychedelia, Noise
  • Dale Barlow Flute
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Salvador
  • Celino dos Santos Samba de Roda
  • Tony Trischka Author
  • Richard Galliano Composer
  • Eliane Elias New York City
  • Nic Hard Record Producer

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

 

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