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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.

 

  • Sarz
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Matrix+

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Sarz
  • City/Place: Lagos
  • Country: Nigeria
  • Hometown: Benin City, Nigeria

Life & Work

  • Bio: Sarz is Osabuohien Osaretin, a Nigerian record producer and musician who’s produced for Wizkid, Drake, Chris Brown, Beyonce, Skepta, and Niniola.

    He also collaborated with Wurld on the album “I Love Girls with Trobul,” which landed them the number-one spot on Nigeria’s iTunes Albums Chart.

Contact Information

  • Email: [email protected]

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Buy My Music: (downloads/CDs/DVDs) http://fanlink.to/ILGWT_
  • ▶ Buy My Music 2: (downloads/CDs/DVDs) http://splice.com/sounds/splice/sarz-pack
  • ▶ Twitter: beatsbysarz
  • ▶ Instagram: only1sarz
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-8oVU02k9rp753QSdpAGsA
  • ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCfH3aoqgEvngCsil9_GWemA
  • ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/147mqXNRAQjxxAUGQ9K7c3
  • ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/3ZPMvMpc49XwdxVMZZsjRy
  • ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/0zlsKxFVoZdXOJKtfx6Qwa
  • ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/1jDNLZ72RSK9pUuziIDasP
  • ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/0rR5whQcGWozzVgQ9XV2VS
  • ▶ Spotify 6: http://open.spotify.com/album/59ZSHbHUtv3GD0OeDwDTgg

Clips (more may be added)

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Appear below by recommending Sarz:

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  • 1 Afrobeat
  • 1 Contemporary R&B
  • 1 Hip-Hop
  • 1 Multi-Instrumentalist
  • 1 Nigeria
  • 1 Record Producer
  • 1 Sample Creator
  • Frank London Composer
  • Luiz Brasil Guitar
  • Brad Mehldau Jazz
  • Chico Buarque Rio de Janeiro
  • Michel Camilo Music Director
  • Plamen Karadonev Jazz
  • Horace Bray Jazz
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  • Margareth Menezes Bahia
  • Pharoah Sanders Composer
  • Gustavo Caribé Produtor Musical, Music Producer
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  • Yasushi Nakamura Composer
  • Shannon Sims Brazil
  • Alexandre Vieira Bahia
  • Barry Harris Piano
  • Lucinda Williams Americana
  • Philip Glass New York City
  • Marcus Strickland Saxophone
  • Congahead African Music
  • The Umoza Music Project Senga Bay
  • Gerônimo Santana Salvador
  • Parker Ighile Hip-Hop
  • Shannon Sims Rio de Janeiro
  • André Vasconcellos Jazz Brasileiro, Brazilian Jazz
  • Danilo Brito São Paulo
  • Alfredo Del-Penho Rio de Janeiro
  • Mariana Zwarg Flute
  • Yoko Miwa Boston
  • Glória Bomfim Singer
  • Bonerama Funk
  • Jerry Douglas Dobro
  • Nublu Experimental, Electronic Music
  • Colm Tóibín Columbia University Faculty
  • Shannon Sims Journalist
  • Hugo Linns Viola Caipira
  • José James New York City
  • Eliane Elias Singer-Songwriter
  • Ricardo Bacelar Compositor, Composer
  • Sombrinha Singer-Songwriter
  • Wayne Krantz Guitar
  • Gustavo Caribé Compositor, Composer
  • Sam Yahel Organ Instruction
  • Rick Beato Author
  • Yvette Holzwarth Los Angeles
  • Nduduzo Makhathini Johannesburg
  • Milford Graves Percussion
  • Walter Blanding Clarinet
  • Chad Taylor Philadelphia
  • Eddie Palmieri Puerto Rico
  • Raelis Vasquez Sculptor
  • Nicholas Daniel Conductor
  • Arturo Sandoval Piano
  • Katuka Africanidades AFROBIZ Salvador
  • Pedro Martins Brazil
  • Justin Stanton Brooklyn, NY
  • Hank Roberts Jazz
  • Cristiano Nogueira Chicago
  • Carlos Blanco Bahia
  • Paddy Groenland Guitar
  • Jonathan Scales Steel Pans
  • Danilo Pérez Boston
  • Mateus Aleluia Filho Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Márcio Bahia Brazilian Jazz
  • Henrique Cazes Brazil
  • Hot Dougie's Salvador
  • Tiganá Santana Salvador
  • Jurandir Santana Viola Caipira
  • Mark Turner Composer
  • Oteil Burbridge Southern Rock
  • Chick Corea Contemporary Classical Music
  • Edivaldo Bolagi Salvador
  • Plamen Karadonev Piano
  • Raelis Vasquez Chicago
  • Congahead Latin Jazz
  • Bombino Tuareg Music
  • Ramita Navai Iran
  • Moses Boyd London
  • Jussara Silveira MPB
  • Camille Thurman Bass Clarinet
  • Echezonachukwu Nduka Nigeria
  • Anne Gisleson Writer
  • Alana Gabriela Educadora, Educator
  • Jonathon Grasse Contemporary Music
  • Camille Thurman Jazz
  • Wayne Escoffery Saxophone Instruction / Online Classes
  • Nicholas Barber Film Critic
  • Shaun Martin Keyboards
  • Beth Bahia Cohen Middle Eastern Music
  • Olivia Trummer Composer
  • Cleber Augusto Poet
  • Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh Theater Composer
  • Richard Galliano Jazz
  • Peter Erskine Jazz
  • Lenine Singer-Songwriter
  • Brian Lynch Trumpet
  • Kenny Garrett Jazz
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Television Producer
  • Ben Harper Soul
  • Neymar Dias Viola Caipira
  • Jan Ramsey Funk
  • Marcelinho Oliveira Salvador
  • Dermot Hussey Author
  • Paquito D'Rivera Saxophone
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Television Writer
  • Orquestra Afrosinfônica Música Clássica Contemporânia, Contemporary Classical Music
  • Rahim AlHaj Baghdad
  • Dan Trueman Norwegian Traditional Music
  • Júlio Lemos Brazil
  • Cleber Augusto Samba
  • Keith Jarrett Composer
  • Azadeh Moussavi Tehran
  • Henrique Araújo Composer
  • Julian Lage Americana
  • Carrtoons Songwriter
  • Gerônimo Santana Salvador
  • Rosa Passos Singer-Songwriter
  • Marvin Dunn Writer
  • Dale Bernstein Wet Plate Photography
  • Andrew Gilbert Writer
  • Dónal Lunny Ireland
  • Jim Hoke Session Musician
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Basketball
  • Jonathan Griffin Radio Presenter
  • Kronos Quartet String Quartet
  • Betão Aguiar Rio de Janeiro
  • Chris Dingman Composer
  • Parker Ighile Africa
  • Oswaldo Amorim Brasília
  • Azi Schwartz החזן עזי שוורץ Jewish Liturgical Music
  • Alan Bishop Egypt
  • John Santos Afro-Latin Music
  • Mavis Staples Gospel
  • Del McCoury Singer
  • Avishai Cohen New York City
  • Tyler Gordon Painter
  • Orrin Evans Neo Soul, Acid Jazz
  • Django Bates Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Bonerama New Orleans
  • Shez Raja Bass
  • Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram Singer
  • Onisajé Educadora, Educator
  • Guga Stroeter Record Producer
  • Nate Smith Composer
  • Michel Camilo Music Director
  • Warren Wolf Baltimore, Maryland
  • Tom Schnabel Author
  • José James R&B
  • Tarus Mateen Jazz
  • Neo Muyanga African Music
  • Karsh Kale कर्ष काळे Composer
  • Gilsons Bahia
  • Magda Giannikou Singer
  • Joshua Abrams Film Scores
  • Mary Halvorson Guitar
  • Steve Bailey Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Paulão 7 Cordas Choro
  • Ben Allison Radio Program Scores
  • Jakub Knera Writer
  • Siba Veloso Singer
  • Niwel Tsumbu Composer
  • Larnell Lewis Drums
  • Gab Ferruz MPB
  • Andrés Prado Jazz
  • Jim Farber Writer
  • Milton Primo Brazil
  • Allen Morrison Jazz
  • Pharoah Sanders Composer
  • Alegre Corrêa Percussion
  • Arismar do Espírito Santo Samba
  • Mariana Zwarg Flute
  • Jared Sims Ropeadope
  • Cássio Nobre Samba de Roda
  • Chucho Valdés Havana
  • Joshua Abrams Guimbri
  • Jon Batiste R&B
  • Roberto Mendes Bahia
  • Michael League Composer
  • Pharoah Sanders Saxophone
  • Lynn Nottage Film Producer
  • Negra Jhô Tranças, Braids
  • Anthony Hamilton Record Producer
  • Munyungo Jackson Los Angeles
  • LaTasha Lee Singer-Songwriter
  • Tony Trischka Banjo
  • Jeremy Pelt New York City
  • Omer Avital Jazz
  • Nelson Cerqueira Romancista, Novelist
  • Ron McCurdy USC Thornton School of Music Faculty
  • Garth Cartwright Music Critic
  • Ana Luisa Barral Bahia
  • Donald Harrison Composer
  • Alex Clark Journalist
  • Jazzmeia Horn Jazz
  • Paulinho do Reco Bahia
  • Alain Pérez Big Band
  • Fernando Brandão Pífano
  • Robb Royer Record Producer
  • Nilze Carvalho Cavaquinho
  • Avner Dorman Composer
  • Júlio Caldas Compositor, Songwriter
  • Renee Rosnes Piano
  • Luis Delgado Qualtrough Photographer
  • John Patitucci Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Bob Bernotas Writer
  • Bruce Molsky Fiddle
  • Isaiah Sharkey Composer
  • Brooklyn Rider Contemporary Classical Music
  • Marta Sánchez Composer
  • Dan Trueman Composer
  • Sam Harris Jazz
  • Román Díaz Santeria
  • Raphael Saadiq Record Producer
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  • Oswaldinho do Acordeon Brazil
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  • Ênio Bernardes Cantor-Compositor, Singer-Songwriter
  • Michael Formanek Double Bass
  • David Hepworth London
  • Zoran Orlić Chicago
  • Bob Lanzetti Educator
  • Maria Drell Salvador
  • Estrela Brilhante do Recife Pernambuco
  • Avner Dorman Contemporary Classical Music
  • Bob Telson New York City
  • Miguel Zenón New York City
  • Derron Ellies Singer
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  • César Orozco New York City
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  • Edu Lobo Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Elza Soares Samba
  • Paulo Dáfilin Viola Caipira
  • Isaac Julien Filmmaker
  • Otis Brown III Jazz
  • Leci Brandão Singer-Songwriter
  • Robby Krieger Singer-Songwriter
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  • Deesha Philyaw Literary Critic
  • Rosa Cedrón Cello
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto Experimental Music
  • PATRICKTOR4 Pernambuco
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  • Sérgio Pererê Minas Gerais
  • Paulo César Pinheiro Poet
  • Julie Fowlis Scotland
  • Scotty Apex Rapper
  • Masao Fukuda Yokahama
  • Karsh Kale कर्ष काळे Record Producer
  • Yazhi Guo 郭雅志 Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Berkun Oya Istanbul
  • Ryan Keberle Piano
  • Angelique Kidjo Benin
  • Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram Mississippi
  • Alisa Weilerstein Classical Music
  • Barlavento Samba
  • Arthur Jafa Video Artist
  • Carl Joe Williams New Orleans
  • Horácio Reis Bahia
  • Dudu Reis Choro
  • Melanie Charles R&B
  • Sérgio Pererê Brazil
  • Miles Okazaki Jazz
  • Eric Harland Composer
  • Cory Wong Guitar
  • Horacio Hernández Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Ariel Reich Singer
  • Donny McCaslin Saxophone
  • Rumaan Alam Essayist
  • Lalah Hathaway Record Producer
  • VJ Gabiru DJ
  • Wayne Escoffery Jazz
  • Ariel Reich Actor
  • Marcel Camargo Choro
  • Milford Graves Jazz
  • Margaret Renkl Nashville, Tennessee
  • Arismar do Espírito Santo Multi-Instrumentalist
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Cocktail Bar
  • Thiago Espírito Santo São Paulo
  • Louis Marks Ropeadope
  • Neymar Dias Composer
  • Shoshana Zuboff Harvard Business School Faculty
  • Luis Delgado Qualtrough San Francisco
  • Ricky (Dirty Red) Gordon Louisiana
  • Steve Cropper Recording Studio Owner
  • Kiko Freitas Drums
  • Garvia Bailey Toronto
  • Ivan Sacerdote Classical Music
  • James Strauss Classical Music
  • Taylor Ashton Brooklyn, NY
  • Larisa Wiegant Illustrator
  • Jim Hoke Nashville, TN
  • Kim André Arnesen Norway
  • Mateus Aleluia Brazil
  • Ben Allison Music Writer
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  • Michael Janisch Soul
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  • Samuel Organ Keyboards
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  • Jason Parham Writer
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  • Mike Compton Songwriter
  • Demond Melancon Big Chief
  • Curly Strings Tallinn
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  • Tyler Gordon Writer
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  • Jericho Brown Emory University Faculty
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  • Aubrey Johnson Contemporary Music
  • Zé Luíz Nascimento Drums
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  • Omar Sosa Marimba
  • Sam Reider Accordion
  • Jon Batiste Jazz
  • Swami Jr. Brazil
  • Varijashree Venugopal Composer
  • Jen Shyu Composer
  • J. Period Brooklyn, NY

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