Roberto Mendes, steps away
Roberto Mendes and most of humanity are within 6 degrees of each other. This matrix combines the small-world principle behind this seemingly magical fact with inter-artist recommendations-in-series in order to make all artists potential curators and discoverable within a handful of steps from everywhere on the planet. It works like this:
I RECOMMEND people (do you?)Roberto Mendes & degrees of proximity
Why again is Roberto Mendes mere steps away from other artists in here, and by extension, most everybody on the planet???
WHO CURATES "I RECOMMEND" ABOVE?
- Vertex/Edges Out by: me, the Artist
Artist & Where
- Name: Roberto Mendes
- City/Place: Santo Amaro, Bahia
- Country: Brazil
Life & Work
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Bio:
Roberto Mendes is very much a son of Santo Amaro, Bahia. This is akin to saying that Jelly Roll Morton was very much a son of New Orleans.
Santo Amaro is a small town at the north end of Brazil's Baía de Todos os Santos (Bay of All Saints), ground zero in the creation of samba on Bahia's sugarcane plantations, and classically-trained Roberto is a master instrumentalist (guitar) and composer working in both the most rootsy end of this primordial samba and in highly wrought "translations" into more modern forms.
Media & Markets
- ▶ Instagram: robertocaribemendes
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkKv_iHebzlYd7zmcjedDzw
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCkmwMzShuOHGmfZAMPC_sMw
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/2harXldOBhs3Bf1QRPZMQD
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/0jXqjSqZUkMgcX2bhfJuIy
Matrix Music Player
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Chulas - Roberto Mendes4 tracks6,254 plays | 1,185 views
ABOUT THE MATRIX
This matrix is dedicated to creative artists and non-algorithmic discovery.
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
While the Brazilian musicians I work with now you may not know, I formerly worked (chasing unpaid royalties!) on behalf of Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Led Zeppelin, Jim Hall, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Philip Glass, The Cadillacs (Earl Carroll), The Flamingos (Zeke and Jake Carey), and others, including Oscar-winning world-class great-guy Robb Royer. I was interviewed by David Dye for broadcast on U.S. National Public Radio several years ago ... about the Brazilians:
- Randy "Pardal/Sparrow" Roberts
All is more connected than we know.
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
The matrix was inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' 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...
Our logo, per the "spirit" above, 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.
