This is a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes (people) inside it are — mirroring human society — within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable steps away from everybody else in the arts world, and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:
This Roberto Mendes matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Roberto Mendes.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Roberto Mendes (node) ROUTES CURATING WORLDLINES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Roberto Mendes's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
- → Yes! I recommend these artists!
Who & 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 tracks6,250 plays | 1,153 views
THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, 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... The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum...it sings!
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, 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 specializes in.
MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):
