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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.

 

  • Rogê
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Matrix

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Rogê
  • City/Place: Rio de Janeiro
  • Country: United States

Life & Work

  • Bio: Sambista, songwriter.

Contact Information

  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: T: +55 21 99503 2209 | +1 818 877 8901

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Twitter: rogebrasil
  • ▶ Instagram: rogebrasil
  • ▶ Website: http://www.rogebrasil.com.br
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWep27-p1ValZZshmD7WMZg
  • ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCqEtPNP24YKQC9yXu1Eb2Bg
  • ▶ Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/arts/music/seu-jorge-roge.html

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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 Rogê:

  • 1 Brazil
  • 1 MPB
  • 1 Rio de Janeiro
  • 1 Samba
  • 1 Singer-Songwriter
  • Ricardo Bacelar Brasil, Brazil
  • Vijay Iyer Harvard University Faculty
  • John Morrison Sample-Flipper
  • Courtney Pine London
  • Liron Meyuhas Percussion
  • Raelis Vasquez Dominican Republic
  • Kimmo Pohjonen Film Scores
  • Restaurante Axego Salvador
  • Fernando Brandão Composer
  • Marilda Santanna Salvador
  • Marcus Miller Los Angeles
  • Dumpstaphunk New Orleans
  • Gel Barbosa Salvador
  • Hanif Abdurraqib Poet
  • Joachim Cooder Singer-Songwriter
  • Cara Stacey Composer
  • Kiko Freitas Educator
  • Mika Mutti Bahia
  • Celso Fonseca Brazil
  • David Ngwerume Harare
  • Christopher James Record Producer
  • Anders Osborne New Orleans
  • Paulão 7 Cordas Choro
  • Jon Batiste New Orleans
  • Dave Douglas New York City
  • Gustavo Di Dalva Brazil
  • Júlio Caldas Bandolim, Mandolin
  • Nara Couto Bahia
  • Christian Sands Composer
  • Yunior Terry Havana
  • Robby Krieger Guitar
  • Mokhtar Samba Author
  • Bodek Janke Tabla
  • Jorge Aragão Singer-Songwriter
  • David Greely Louisiana
  • Paulo César Figueiredo Rio de Janeiro
  • Cécile Fromont Martinique
  • Patty Kiss Guitarra Baiana
  • Hisham Mayet Record Label Owner
  • Fidelis Melo Bahia
  • Imanuel Marcus News Site Owner, Editor-in-Chief
  • Esperanza Spalding Composer
  • Alexandre Gismonti Brazil
  • Fábio Luna Forró
  • Peter Evans Avant-Garde Jazz
  • Bobby Sanabria Bandleader
  • Mayra Andrade Lisbon
  • Jorge Washington Salvador
  • Ênio Bernardes Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Jan Ramsey Jazz
  • Joe Lovano Clarinet
  • Tshepiso Ledwaba Johannesburg
  • Adam O'Farrill Composer
  • Monarco Rio de Janeiro
  • Luques Curtis Double Bass
  • Sarz Nigeria
  • Beats Antique Oakland, California
  • Marcos Suzano Rio de Janeiro
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto Record Producer
  • Jamel Brinkley Short Stories
  • Meshell Ndegeocello Bass
  • Aaron Parks Brooklyn, NY
  • Victor Gama Contemporary Musical Instrument Design
  • David Bruce Opera
  • Casa da Mãe Chula
  • Jill Scott Jazz
  • Siba Veloso Recife
  • Yoron Israel Drums
  • Erika Goldring Music Photographer
  • Tommaso Zillio Author
  • Manassés de Souza 12 String Guitar
  • Rudy Royston Photographer
  • Bob Lanzetti Brooklyn, NY
  • William Parker Composer
  • Mário Pam Bahia
  • Casey Driessen Fiddle
  • José James Jazz
  • Mestre Barachinha Pernambuco
  • João Bosco Guitar
  • Yazhi Guo 郭雅志 Boston, Massachusetts
  • Caetano Veloso Bahia
  • John Medeski Keyboards
  • Jason Parham Editor
  • Bobby Sanabria Composer
  • Tam-Ky Asian-African Foods
  • Hank Roberts Ithaca, New York
  • Jorge Aragão Samba
  • Olga Mieleszczuk Poland
  • Léo Rugero Composer
  • Myron Walden Jazz
  • Jonga Cunha Brazil
  • Bodek Janke Tabla
  • Ricardo Bacelar MPB
  • Gaby Moreno Multi-Cultural
  • Dale Farmer Old-Time Music
  • Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro Brazil
  • Antonio García Film Scores
  • Jake Oleson Filmmaker
  • Moses Boyd London
  • Cássio Nobre Samba de Roda
  • Ivan Huol Drums
  • Simone Sou Drums
  • Vânia Oliveira Brasil, Brazil
  • Tomo Fujita Jazz
  • Gilsons Bahia
  • Clint Mansell Television Scores
  • Leo Genovese Piano
  • Paddy Groenland Ireland
  • Bonerama New Orleans
  • Welson Tremura University of Florida Faculty
  • Hot Dougie's Local de Música ao Vivo
  • Alan Brain Washington, D.C.
  • Alicia Svigals Jewish Music
  • Eduardo Kobra Grafiteiro, Graffiti Artist
  • Melanie Charles Actress
  • Tommaso Zillio Edmonton
  • Derrick Hodge Bass
  • Paulo Costa Lima Escritor, Writer
  • Luke Daniels Scottish Traditional Music
  • Miguel Zenón Jazz
  • José James New York City
  • Yosvany Terry Saxophone
  • Zachary Richard Guitar
  • Ned Sublette Singer-Songwriter
  • Alexia Arthurs Writer
  • Rebeca Omordia London
  • Yamandu Costa Samba
  • Musa Okwonga Essayist
  • Robin Eubanks Trombone
  • Alan Bishop Singer-Songwriter
  • Raymundo Sodré Samba
  • Thiago Espírito Santo Jazz
  • Bob Telson Film Scores
  • Martyn Drum and Bass
  • Philip Cashian Royal Academy of Music Staff
  • Nicholas Gill Food Writer
  • Meklit Hadero Singer-Songwriter
  • Dani Deahl Writer
  • Cara Stacey Radio Presenter
  • Gabriel Grossi Forró
  • Herlin Riley Second Line
  • Dezron Douglas Composer
  • Geovanna Costa Cantora-Compositora, Singer-Songwriter
  • Adriano Giffoni Author
  • Horácio Reis Violão Clássico Brasileiro, Brazilian Classical Guitar
  • Stacy Dillard Composer
  • Danilo Caymmi Singer-Songwriter
  • Brian Q. Torff Bass
  • OVANA Singers-Songwriters
  • MonoNeon R&B
  • Amaro Freitas Frevo
  • Ivan Neville Funk
  • Mavis Staples R&B
  • Celso Fonseca Brazil
  • Michael W. Twitty Food Writer
  • Malin Fezehai Visual Reporter
  • Gringo Cardia Graphic Design
  • Ray Angry Brooklyn, NY
  • Dumpstaphunk New Orleans
  • Guga Stroeter São Paulo
  • NIcholas Casey Writer
  • Capinam Salvador
  • Angel Bat Dawid Piano
  • Robertinho Silva Brazilian Jazz
  • Mateus Aleluia Candomblé
  • Maria Nunes Trinidad
  • George Porter Jr. Funk
  • Cláudio Jorge Arranger
  • Leon Parker Percussion
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh Television Presenter
  • Ron Mader Professional Speaker
  • Nara Couto Afropop
  • Caetano Veloso Brazil
  • Siba Veloso Maracatu
  • Beth Bahia Cohen Tanbur
  • Marcos Sacramento Rio de Janeiro
  • Rita Batista Bahia
  • Shabaka Hutchings London
  • Ben Harper Funk
  • Maia Sharp Country
  • Amitava Kumar Literary Critic
  • Arturo O'Farrill Bandleader
  • Eddie Kadi Congo
  • Eli Degibri אלי דג'יברי Tel Aviv
  • Thana Alexa Music Producer
  • Tero Saarinen Choreographer
  • Arifan Junior Portela
  • Little Simz Rapper
  • Nancy Ruth Singer-Songwriter
  • Rodrigo Caçapa Guitar
  • 9Bach Multi-Cultural
  • Tam-Ky France
  • Georgia Anne Muldrow Neo-Soul
  • Thiago Espírito Santo Compositor, Composer
  • J. Velloso MPB
  • Fabiana Cozza Brazil
  • Meddy Gerville Jazz
  • Glória Bomfim Afoxé
  • Carlinhos Brown Bahia
  • Daphne A. Brooks Writer
  • Diedrich Diederichsen Cultural Critic
  • Bisa Butler Textile Artist
  • Colm Tóibín Literary Critic
  • Mauro Refosco Compositor de Shows da Moda, Fashion Show Music
  • Itiberê Zwarg Rio de Janeiro
  • Hamilton de Holanda Bandolim
  • Aderbal Duarte Salvador
  • Catherine Bent Jazz
  • Alma Deutscher Composer
  • Eamonn Flynn Singer-Songwriter
  • Bruce Molsky Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Fernando Brandão Composer
  • Cleber Augusto Samba
  • Evgeny Kissin Poet
  • Orquestra Afrosinfônica Música Clássica Contemporânia, Contemporary Classical Music
  • Steve Earle Writer
  • Amitava Kumar Journalist
  • Casa PretaHub Cachoeira Bahia
  • Frank Beacham Writer
  • Bertram Recording Artist
  • David Hoffman Documentary Filmmaker
  • Nancy Viégas MPB
  • Maria Bethânia Samba de Roda
  • Márcio Bahia Samba
  • Gui Duvignau Jazz
  • Isaak Bransah Ghana
  • Alicia Svigals Klezmer Fiddle
  • Chris Speed Clarinet
  • Larnell Lewis Toronto
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Chula
  • Gilmar Gomes Salvador
  • Terence Blanchard Educator
  • Richard Bona Bass
  • Corey Harris Reggae
  • João Rabello Brazil
  • Yamandu Costa Guitar
  • Mary Halvorson Brooklyn, NY
  • Paulo César Figueiredo Jornalista, Journalist
  • Karla Vasquez Food Writer
  • Alegre Corrêa Violin
  • Maria Rita Singer
  • Trilok Gurtu Jazz
  • Ivo Perelman Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Jeff Preiss Producer
  • Keyon Harrold Trumpet
  • Carlos Lyra Guitar
  • Terrace Martin Jazz
  • Ron McCurdy Jazz
  • Nublu Multi-Cultural
  • Rez Abbasi Composer
  • Miguel Zenón Puerto Rico
  • Marcus J. Moore Writer
  • Arthur Verocai Singer-Songwriter
  • Archie Shepp Jazz
  • Priscila Castro Pará
  • Ann Hallenberg Sweden
  • Mateus Aleluia Filho Candomblé
  • Jane Ira Bloom Contemporary Classical Music
  • Philip Sherburne DJ
  • Michael Doucet Mandolin
  • Ronaldo do Bandolim Brazil
  • Oswaldinho do Acordeon Forró
  • Richie Stearns Americana
  • Vânia Oliveira Educadora, Educator
  • Virgínia Rodrigues Singer
  • Eddie Palmieri Latin Funk
  • Djuena Tikuna São Luís, Maranhão
  • Stephen Guerra Bronx Conservatory of Music Faculty
  • Dónal Lunny Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Irma Thomas R&B
  • Barney McAll Australia
  • Léo Rodrigues Frevo
  • Nikki Yeoh Jazz
  • Leon Bridges Singer-Songwriter
  • Sheryl Bailey Author
  • Mona Lisa Saloy Folklorist
  • David Binney Los Angeles
  • Martin Hayes Irish Traditional Music
  • Damon Albarn Film Scores
  • Jocelyn Ramirez Online Cooking Classes
  • Hendrik Meurkens Samba
  • Yazhi Guo 郭雅志 Suona
  • Dave Douglas New York City
  • Glória Bomfim Bahia
  • Nigel Hall Keyboards
  • Ana Luisa Barral Mandolin
  • Alita Moses Neo Soul
  • Robert Glasper Jazz
  • Margareth Menezes Bahia
  • Joel Ross Brooklyn, NY
  • Karsh Kale कर्ष काळे Electronic Music
  • JD Allen Jazz
  • Emily Elbert Singer-Songwriter
  • Mateus Aleluia Filho Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Anouar Brahem Tunisia
  • Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh Dublin
  • Victor Gama Composer
  • Garth Cartwright Music Critic
  • Gab Ferruz Cantora-Compositora, Singer-Songwriter
  • Michael Cuscuna Record Label Owner
  • JD Allen New York City
  • Jan Ramsey Creole Music
  • Little Simz Actor
  • MARO Singer-Songwriter
  • Jaimie Branch Composer
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Journalist
  • Cuong Vu Jazz
  • José Antonio Escobar Chile
  • José Antonio Escobar Classical Guitar
  • Robert Randolph Funk
  • Mikki Kunttu Set Designer
  • Mário Pam Percussion Classes & Workshops
  • Ivan Huol Songwriter
  • Tero Saarinen Helsinki
  • Abderrahmane Sissako Film Director
  • Leo Nocentelli Guitar
  • Itamar Vieira Júnior Brazil
  • Chau do Pife Pífano
  • Fatoumata Diawara African Music
  • Carrtoons Songwriter
  • Hercules Gomes Brazil
  • João Teoria Bahia
  • Del McCoury Guitar
  • Oleg Fateev Amsterdam
  • Julia Alvarez Middlebury College Faculty
  • Mateus Aleluia Filho Cachoeira
  • Meddy Gerville Composer
  • Seckou Keita Kora
  • Jaques Morelenbaum Film Scores
  • Alain Mabanckou UCLA Faculty
  • Cássio Nobre Viola Brasileira
  • Stefon Harris Composer
  • Ofer Mizrahi Multi-Cultural
  • Paul Mahern Mastering Engineer
  • Nomcebo Zikode South Africa
  • Edsel Gomez Jazz
  • Simon Singh Television Producer
  • Nego Álvaro Rio de Janeiro
  • Jacám Manricks Composer
  • Edil Pacheco Record Producer
  • Bongo Joe Records Geneva, Switzerland
  • Geovanna Costa Brasil, Brazil
  • John Santos Cape Verde
  • Flora Purim Percussion
  • Olivia Trummer Composer
  • The Brain Cloud Western Swing
  • Romero Lubambo Brazil
  • Paulinho da Viola Rio de Janeiro
  • Jim Lauderdale Nashville, Tennessee
  • Augustin Hadelich Classical Music

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

 

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