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  • Stefano Bollani

    THE INTEGRATED GLOBAL
    CREATIVE ECONOMY

    promulgated by
    The Brazilian Ministry of Culture

    fomented by
    The Bahian Secretary of Culture

    fomented by
    The Palmares Foundation
    for the promotion of Afro-Brazilian Culture

    fomented by
    The National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples

    I CURATE/pathways out

Network Node

  • Name: Stefano Bollani
  • City/Place: Rome
  • Country: Italy

CURATION

  • from this node by: Matrix+

Life & Work

  • Bio: Born in Milan on December 5, 1972, he started playing the piano at the age of six and made his professional debut at 15. He studied jazz with Luca Flores, Mauro Grossi and Franco D’Andrea. After graduating under Maestro Antonio Caggiula at the Conservatory Luigi Cherubini of Florence in 1993 and a brief experience as session musician in the pop world (with Raf and Jovanotti, among others), he soon became an established jazz musician, playing on the most prestigious stages worldwide (from Umbria Jazz to Montreal International Jazz Festival, from the Town Hall in New York to the Fenice in Venice, from the Barbican in London and Salle Pleyel in Paris to the Scala in Milan). He has also worked with great musicians including Richard Galliano, Phil Woods, Lee Konitz, Chick Corea, with whom he recorded live Orvieto (ECM, 2011), as well as Gato Barbieri, Bill Frisell, John Abercrombie, Pat Metheny, Bobby McFerrin, Sol Gabetta, Fred Hersch, Martial Solal, Chano Dominguez, Chucho Valdés, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Uri Caine, Diego Schissi, Igudesman & Joo, Miroslav Vitous, Aldo Romano, Jimmy Cobb, Roy Haynes, Michel Portal, Luis Bacalov, Riz Ortolani…

    Among the milestones in his career, the crucial collaboration with his mentor Enrico Rava, uninterrupted since 1996. At Rava’s side, he has performed hundreds of concerts and recorded as many as 13 CDs. The most recent include: Tati (ECM, 2005), in a trio with Paul Motian on drums (CD of the year for French Académie du jazz), The Third Man (ECM, 2007, the best CD of the year for American magazine “Allaboutjazz” and for Italian “Musica Jazz”), and New York Days (ECM, 2008), in a quintet with Mark Turner, Larry Grenadier and Paul Motian (CD of the year for “Musica Jazz”).

    He was rated best new talent in 1998 by the referendum of the “Musica Jazz” critics; in that year, as leader of his band L’orchestra del Titanic, he paid tribute to Italian music of the 1930s and 1940s with the record-show Abbassa la tua radio (with many important Italian singers and musicians).

    Over the years he has worked with experimental and “cross-border” musicians both on stage and in recordings (Hector Zazou, Giovanni Sollima, Elliot Sharp, Zeena Parkins, Sainhko Namcythclack); he has also played his piano for singers such as Elio e le storie tese, Johnny Dorelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Andrea Bocelli, and in particular the Italian pop star Irene Grandi, with whom he signed the album Irene Grandi e Stefano Bollani (Carosello, 2012).

    Some of his works are rather unconventional, such as La gnosi delle fanfole, where he set surreal poems by Fosco Maraini to music together with singer-songwriter Massimo Altomare (1998), and the album of Scandinavian songs Gleda (Stunt Records, 2005), recorded in Denmark with Jesper Bodilsen on double bass and Morten Lund on drums, two musicians with whom he has been playing in a close-knit trio since 2004.

    He recorded four CDs in his name for prestigious French Label Bleu: Les fleurs bleues (2002), a tribute to writer Raymond Queneau, recorded in trio with Scott Colley and Clarence Penn; the solo-CD Småt småt (2003), ranked as one of the top ten jazz albums of the year by English magazine “Mojo”; Concertone (2004), a work for jazz trio and symphonic orchestra with Paolo Silvestri, who arranged and directed the Orchestra Regionale Toscana; and the double album I visionari (2006) with his new quintet plus Mark Feldman, Paolo Fresu and Petra Magoni as guests.

    He created Vivere Jazz Festival in Fiesole (FI) and was its artistic director from 2005 to 2007.

    His more recent productions are Big Band! (Verve, 2013) with the NDR Big Band of Hamburg directed and arranged by Geir Lysne, awarded with the 2013 ECHO Preis; Joy In Spite Of Everything (ECM, 2014), CD of the year for the magazine “Musica Jazz”; Sheik Yer Zappa (Decca black, 2014), a live recording to honour Frank Zappa’s music; Arrivano gli alieni (Decca black, 2015), his debut as singer-songwriter; Napoli Trip (Decca, 2016) with many musicians including Daniele Sepe, Manu Katché and Jan Bang; Mediterraneo (ACT, 2017), a live show recorded in Berlin with Jesper Bodilsen, Morten Lund, Vincent Peirani and some members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, with arrangements by Geir Lysne.

    In May 2018, he released Que Bom, his first album of his label Alobar. Consisting of original tunes recorded in Rio, it features Caetano Veloso and João Bosco among others.

    The second album by Alobar is Piano Variations on Jesus Christ Superstar (2020), a tribute to the rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.

    His curiosity has often made him a moderator/interviewer on stage with writers and thinkers such as Rupert Sheldrake, Corrado Malanga, Mauro Biglino, Anne Givaudan, Igor Sibaldi.


    PUBLISHING

    In 2006, publisher Baldini e Castoldi Dalai printed his novel La sindrome di Brontolo.

    In January 2013, Mondadori published his book Parliamo di musica. In 2015, again Mondadori published Il monello, il guru, l’alchimista e altre storie di musicisti.

    He was made a character called “Paperefano Bolletta” appearing in three comic strips of the weekly publication “Topolino” and was officially appointed its ambassador.

    In 2017, Trigono Edizioni published Dialoghi tra alieni, conversazioni su universi vicini e lontani signed by Bollani together with Mauro Biglino, Anne Givaudan and Igor Sibaldi.

    He wrote the foreword for books by George Martin, Tom Robbins, Robert Anton Wilson, Ricardo Tristano Tuls and others.


    RADIO AND TV

    In 2005, he was a permanent guest in the Rai 1 TV show Meno siamo meglio stiamo by and with Renzo Arbore, one of the most popular Italian TV presenters of all time.

    Together with poet-author-director David Riondino and saxophonist-composer Mirko Guerrini, he was the creator, author and host of the music show Dottor Djembè, broadcast on Radio Rai 3 from 2006 to 2012 (winning the awards “Premio Microfono d’argento” in 2007, “Premio Satira Politica di Forte dei Marmi” and “Volterra Gusto” in 2010). That experience first led to the book-CD Lo Zibaldone del Dottor Djembè (Baldini Castoldi Dalai, 2008), an ironic mockery of the world of “high” culture, and then to the TV special Buonasera Dottor Djembè in three episodes created and broadcast on Rai 3 in June 2010.

    He has been the author of Radio Rai 3 programs’ jingles since January 2009.

    In October 2011, he was the creator, author and host of the six-episode TV show Sostiene Bollani, broadcast on Rai 3. By his side, the very famous Italian comedian Caterina Guzzanti and his friends-musicians Jesper Bodilsen and Morten Lund of his Danish Trio, and many guests. The show was awarded with the “Ideona” prize of ANART, television and radio authors association.

    A second edition was once again broadcast on Rai 3 in 2013.

    In autumn 2016, he created the seven-episode late-night Rai 1 TV show L’importante è avere un piano, accompanied by brilliant actress Valentina Cenni in the role of a sleep fairy and by many international musician guests.

    He took part in 2013 Sanremo Festival as special guest with Caetano Veloso.

    In January 2020, he officially inaugurated the year of Matera European Capital of Culture on Rai 1 TV with multifaceted actor-singer-director Gigi Proietti, who has enjoyed highest popularity in Italy for over 50 years.


    THEATRE

    In theatre, he has worked with many artists, from Banda Osiris (in the show Guarda che luna!, 2002-2004, together with Rava, Gianmaria Testa and others, and in Primo piano, 2005-2006), to renowned Italian actors such as Claudio Bisio, Maurizio Crozza and in particular Lella Costa (for whom he composed the music for three plays, Alice: una meraviglia di paese, Amleto and Ragazze, all directed by Giorgio Gallione).

    He shared the stage with prominent people from the world of art tout court such as Fernando Arrabal and of contemporary dance such as Roberto Bolle, Raffaella Giordano and Mauro Bigonzetti (who created a ballet on his Concertone for Staatstheater Stuttgart).

    He composed the music for Antigone by Cristina Pezzoli, performed at Teatro Greco of Siracusa in 2013, and for Wonderland by Daniele Ciprì, produced by Teatro Stabile of Bolzano in 2016.

    An honorary member of the Italian Association of Pataphysics, he is co-author of and actor in the play created together with his wife Valentina Cenni, La regina dada.


    CLASSICAL MUSIC

    In the field of classical music, he has performed as soloist with symphonic orchestras such as Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Concertgebouworkest of Amsterdam, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de Lyon, Filarmonica della Scala of Milan, Santa Cecilia of Rome with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Kristjan Järvi, Daniel Harding, Antonio Pappano, Gianandrea Noseda, Leonard Slatkin, James Conlon, Jan Latham-Koenig (with whom he recorded Concert Champêtre by Poulenc for the English label AVIE Records together with the Orchestra Filamornica ‘900 del Regio di Torino), and in particular Riccardo Chailly, with whom he recorded Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F in Leipzig, released in September 2010 by Decca Italia and listed in the general rankings (Platinum disc, selling over 70,000 copies).

    In 2012, he recorded the CD Sounds of the 30s (including Concerto in G by Maurice Ravel), once again with Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Maestro Chailly.

    In 2013, George Gershwin – Live alla Scala was released, a DVD recorded at Scala in Milan that includes Concerto in F directed by Chailly.

    He composed three concerts for piano and orchestra: Concertone (2004), Concerto Azzurro (2017) and Concerto Verde (2019).


    BRAZIL

    In recent times, his bond with South America has grown stronger. After creating the (Gold Record awarded) album Carioca with outstanding Brazilian musicians, followed by a live DVD, in December 2007 he was, only after Antonio Carlos Jobim, the second musician in Brazilian history to play a grand piano in a favela of Rio de Janeiro.

    He has worked with many Brazilian artists, notably Hamilton de Holanda, with whom he recorded the live album O Que Será (ECM, 2013), ranked among the best CDs of the year by American magazine “Downbeat”. He has also played with Chico Buarque, Egberto Gismonti, Marcos Sacramento, Zé Renato, Monica Salmaso, Nilze Carvalho, Ná Ozzetti, Jaques Morelenbaum, Toninho Horta, and the band Casuarina.


    PRIZES AND AWARDS

    He was rated the best new talent in 1998 by the referendum of “Musica Jazz” critics.

    In 2003, he received the Neapolitan award “Premio Carosone”, named after the artist whom he had dedicated a brief book-essay to in 2002, L’America di Renato Carosone (Elleu editore). One year later, Japanese magazine “Swing Journal” gave him the “New Star Award” for foreign emerging talents, bestowed for the first time to a non-American musician. He published five CDs for Japanese label Venus Records as leader of his trio with Ares Tavolazzi on double bass and Walter Paoli on drums. (In one of them, Ma l’amore no, 2006, he also performed as singer).

    In 2006, “Musica Jazz” rated him musician of the year, and his Piano Solo (ECM) CD of the year.

    In 2007, American jazz magazine “Downbeat” Critics Poll ranked him eighth best international rising star and third best young pianist.

    The critics of “Allaboutjazz” magazine of New York ranked him among the five most important musicians of the year, next to stars like Ornette Coleman and Sonny Rollins.

    In December, he was given the European critic award “European Jazz Prize – Best European Jazz Musician of the Year” in Vienna.

    In 2008, the Region of Tuscany awarded him with the “Gonfalone d’argento”.

    In 2009, at North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, he won the “Paul Hacket Award”.

    In 2010, he was appointed honorary doctor by Berklee College of Music in Boston.

    The same year, he received the “Capri Global Artist Award” and was rated musician of the year by the “Musica Jazz” critics.

    In 2011, he won the “Fiorentini nel mondo” prize and the “Los Angeles Excellence Award” for Italian culture in the world.

    In 2012, he received the “Milano per la musica” prize. The same year, he was ranked seventh best pianist by “Downbeat” Critics Poll.

    In Germany, he won the 2014 “Trier Jazz Award”. The same year, Joy In Spite Of Everything was rated CD of the year by “Musica Jazz”.

    In 2016, he was awarded the title of “Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic”.

    In 2019, he was conferred honorary citizenship by the city of Naples.

Contact Information

  • Management/Booking: Gábor Simon Konzertagentur
    GENERAL MANAGEMENT, COMPOSITIONS & COMMISSIONS, BOOKING G/A/S & BE/NE/LUX
    [email protected]
    +49 175 2488831
    www.gaborsimonkonzert.de

    Mauro Diazzi
    Booking Italy
    [email protected]
    +39 059 7877010
    +39 335 7243509
    www.maurodiazzi.com

    Luciano Bertrand
    Booking France
    [email protected]
    +39 329 235 3329

    Béla Simon
    Booking Hungary Classical Music
    [email protected]
    +36 30 588 6547
    www.microcosmosartists.com

    MWI – Music Works International
    Booking rest of the world
    Luigi Sidero
    [email protected]
    +393284187943

    Katherine McVicker
    [email protected]
    www.musicworksinternational.com

    Zebaki
    Press office
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    +393387368361
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    +393421659695

    Roberto Lioli
    Technical manager
    [email protected]
    +39 335 5616258

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WHO IS INSIDE THIS GLOBAL MATRIX?

Explore above for a complete list of artists and other members of the creative economy.


WHY BRAZIL?

Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's 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.

 

Brazil 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 — the hand drum in the opening scene above — 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 a scintillatingly unprecedented fourth. Pandeirista on the roof.

 

Nowhere else but here. Brazil itself is a matrix.

 


✅—João do Boi
João had something priceless to offer the world.
But he was impossible for the world to find...
✅—Pardal/Sparrow
PATHWAYS
from Brazil, with love
THE MISSION: Beginning with the atavistic genius of the Recôncavo (per "RESPLENDENT BAHIA..." below) & the great sertão (the backlands of Brazil's nordeste) — make artists across Brazil — and around the world — discoverable as they never were before.

HOW: Integrate them into a vast matrixed ecosystem together with musicians, writers, filmmakers, painters, choreographers, fashion designers, educators, chefs et al from all over the planet (are you in this ecosystem?) such that these artists all tend to be connected to each other via short, discoverable, accessible pathways. Q.E.D.

"Matrixado! Laroyê!"
✅—Founding Member Darius Mans
Economist, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
✅—Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
President of Brazil


The matrix was created in Salvador's Centro Histórico, where Bule Bule below, among first-generation matrixed colleagues, sings "Chegou a hora dessa gente bronzeada mostrar seu valor... The time has come for these bronzed people to show their worth..."

Music & lyrics (Brasil Pandeiro) by Assis Valente of Santo Amaro, Bahia, Brazil. Video by Betão Aguiar of Salvador.

...the endeavor motivated in the first instance by the fact that in common with most cultures around our planet, the preponderance of Brazil's vast cultural treasure has been impossible to find from outside of circumscribed regions, including Brazil itself...

Thus something new under the tropical sun: Open curation beginning with Brazilian musicians recommending other Brazilian musicians and moving on around the globe...

Where by the seemingly magical mathematics of the small world phenomenon, and in the same way that most human beings are within some six or so steps of most others, all in the matrix tend to proximity to all others...

The difference being that in the matrix, these steps are along pathways that can be travelled. The creative world becomes a neighborhood. Quincy Jones is right up the street and Branford Marsalis around the corner. And the most far-flung genius you've never heard of is just a few doors down. Maybe even in Brazil.

"I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
✅—Susan Rogers
Personal recording engineer: Prince, Paisley Park Recording Studio
Director: Music Perception & Cognition Laboratory, Berklee College of Music
Author: This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

"Many thanks for this - I am  touched!"
✅—Julian Lloyd Webber
That most fabled cellist in the United Kingdom (and Brazilian music fan)

"I'm truly thankful... Sohlangana ngokuzayo :)"
✅—Nduduzo Makhathini
Blue Note recording artist

"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
✅—Alicia Svigals
Founder of The Klezmatics

"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
✅—Clarice Assad
Compositions recorded by Yo Yo Ma and played by orchestras around the world

"Thank you"
(Banch Abegaze, manager)
✅—Kamasi Washington


RESPLENDENT BAHIA...

...is a hot cauldron of rhythms and musical styles, but one particular style here is so utterly essential, so utterly fundamental not only to Bahian music specifically but to Brazilian music in general — occupying a place here analogous to that of the blues in the United States — that it deserves singling out. It is derived from (or some say brother to) the cabila rhythm of candomblé angola… …and it is called…

Samba Chula / Samba de Roda

Mother of Samba… daughter of destiny carried to Bahia by Bantus ensconced within the holds of negreiros entering the great Bahia de Todos os Santos (the term referring both to a dance and to the style of music which evolved to accompany that dance; the official orthography of “Bahia” — in the sense of “bay” — has since been changed to “Baía”)… evolved on the sugarcane plantations of the Recôncavo (that fertile area around the bay, the concave shape of which gave rise to the region’s name) — in the vicinity of towns like Cachoeira and Santo Amaro, Santiago do Iguape and Acupe. This proto-samba has unfortunately fallen into the wayside of hard to find and hear…

There’s a lot of spectacle in Bahia…

Carnival with its trio elétricos — sound-trucks with musicians on top — looking like interstellar semi-trailers back from the future…shows of MPB (música popular brasileira) in Salvador’s Teatro Castro Alves (biggest stage in South America!) with full production value, the audience seated (as always in modern theaters) like Easter Island statues…

…glamour, glitz, money, power and press agents…

And then there’s where it all came from…the far side of the bay, a land of subsistence farmers and fishermen, many of the older people unable to read or write…their sambas the precursor to all this, without which none of the above would exist, their melodies — when not created by themselves — the inventions of people like them but now forgotten (as most of these people will be within a couple of generations or so of their passing), their rhythms a constant state of inconstancy and flux, played in a manner unlike (most) any group of musicians north of the Tropic of Cancer…making the metronome-like sledgehammering of the Hit Parade of the past several decades almost wincefully painful to listen to after one’s ears have become accustomed to evershifting rhythms played like the aurora borealis looks…

So there’s the spectacle, and there’s the spectacular, and more often than not the latter is found far afield from the former, among the poor folk in the villages and the backlands, the humble and the honest, people who can say more (like an old delta bluesman playing a beat-up guitar on a sagging back porch) with a pandeiro (Brazilian tambourine) and a chula (a shouted/sung “folksong”) than most with whatever technology and support money can buy. The heart of this matter, is out there. If you ask me anyway.

Above, the incomparable João do Boi, chuleiro, recently deceased.

 

 

PORTUGUÊS (to English →)

 

QUEM ESTÁ DENTRO DESTE MATRIX?

Explore acima para uma lista completa de artistas e outros membros da economia criativa global.


POR QUE BRASIL?

O Brasil não é uma nação européia. Não é uma nação norte-americana. Não é uma nação do leste asiático. Compreende — selva e deserto e centros urbanos densos — tanto o equador quanto o Trópico de Capricórnio.

 

O Brasil absorveu mais de dez vezes o número de africanos escravizados levados para os Estados Unidos da América, e é um repositório de divindades africanas (e sua música) agora em grande parte esquecido em suas terras de origem.

 

O Brasil era um refúgio (de certa forma) para os sefarditas que fugiam de uma Inquisição que os seguia através do Atlântico (aquele símbolo não oficial da música nacional brasileira — o pandeiro — foi quase certamente trazido ao Brasil por esse povo).

 

Através das savanas ressequidas do interior do culturalmente fecundo nordeste, onde o mago Hermeto Pascoal nasceu na Lagoa da Canoa e cresceu em Olho d'Águia, uma grande parte da população aborígine do Brasil foi absorvida por uma cultura caboclo/quilombola pontuada pela Estrela de Davi.

 

Três culturas — de três continentes — correndo por suas vidas, sua confluência formando uma quarta cintilante e sem precedentes. Pandeirista no telhado.

 

Em nenhum outro lugar a não ser aqui. Brasil é um matrix mesmo.

 


✅—João do Boi
João tinha algo inestimável pro mundo.
Mas ele era impossível pro mundo encontrar...
✅—Pardal/Sparrow
CAMINHOS
do Brasil, com amor
A MISSÃO: Começando com a atávica genialidade do Recôncavo (conforme "RESPLANDECENTE BAHIA..." abaixo) e do grande sertão — tornar artistas através do Brasil — e ao redor do mundo — descobriveis como nunca foram antes.

COMO: Integrá-los num vasto ecosistema matrixado, juntos com músicos, escritores, cineastas, pintores, coreógrafos, designers de moda, educadores, chefs e outros de todos os lugares (você está neste ecosistema?) de modo que todos esses artistas tendem a estar ligados entre si por caminhos curtos, descobriveis e acessíveis. Q.E.D.

"Matrixado! Laroyê!"
✅—Membro Fundador Darius Mans
Economista, doutorado, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
✅—Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Presidente do Brasil


O matrix foi criado no Centro Histórico de Salvador, onde Bule Bule no clipe, entre colegas da primeira geração no matrix, canta "Chegou a hora dessa gente bronzeada mostrar seu valor..."

Música & letras (Brasil Pandeiro) por Assis Valente de Santo Amaro, Bahia. Vídeo por Betão Aguiar de Salvador.

...o empreendimento motivado na primeira instância pelo fato de que em comum com a maioria das culturas ao redor do nosso planeta, a preponderância do vasto tesouro cultural do Brasil tem sido impossível de encontrar fora de regiões circunscritas, incluindo o próprio Brasil.

Assim, algo novo sob o sol tropical: Curadoria aberta começando com músicos brasileiros recomendando outros músicos brasileiros e avançando ao redor do globo...

Onde pela matemática aparentemente mágica do fenômeno do mundo pequeno, e da mesma forma que a maioria dos seres humanos estão dentro de cerca de seis passos da maioria dos outros, todos no matrix tendem a se aproximar de todos...

Com a diferença que no matrix, estes passos estão ao longo de caminhos que podem ser percorridos. O mundo criativo se torna uma vizinhança. Quincy Jones está lá em cima e Branford Marsalis está ao virar da esquina. E o gênio distante que você nunca ouviu falar tá lá embaixo. Talvez até no Brasil.

"Obrigada por me incluir neste matrix maravilhoso!"
✅—Susan Rogers
Engenheiro de gravação pessoal para Prince: Paisley Park Estúdio de Gravação
Diretora: Laboratório de Percepção e Cognição Musical, Berklee College of Music
Autora: This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

"Muito obrigado por isso - estou tocado!"
✅—Julian Lloyd Webber
Merecidamente o violoncelista mais lendário do Reino Unido (e fã da música brasileira)

"Estou realmente agradecido... Sohlangana ngokuzayo :)"
✅—Nduduzo Makhathini
Artista da Blue Note

"Obrigada, esta é uma ideia brilhante!!"
✅—Alicia Svigals
Fundadora do The Klezmatics

"Este é um trabalho super impressionante! Parabéns! Obrigada por me incluir :)))"
✅—Clarice Assad
Composições gravadas por Yo Yo Ma e tocadas por orquestras ao redor do mundo

"Thank you"
(Banch Abegaze, empresário)
✅—Kamasi Washington


RESPLANDECENTE BAHIA...

...é um caldeirão quente de ritmos e estilos musicais, mas um estilo particular aqui é tão essencial, tão fundamental não só para a música baiana especificamente, mas para a música brasileira em geral - ocupando um lugar aqui análogo ao do blues nos Estados Unidos - que merece ser destacado. Ela deriva (ou alguns dizem irmão para) do ritmo cabila do candomblé angola... ...e é chamada de...

Samba Chula / Samba de Roda

Mãe do Samba... filha do destino carregada para a Bahia por Bantus ensconced dentro dos porões de negreiros entrando na grande Bahia de Todos os Santos (o termo refere-se tanto a uma dança quanto ao estilo de música que evoluiu para acompanhar essa dança; a ortografia oficial da "Bahia" - no sentido de "baía" - foi desde então alterada para "Baía")... evoluiu nas plantações de cana de açúcar do Recôncavo (aquela área fértil ao redor da baía, cuja forma côncava deu origem ao nome da região) - nas proximidades de cidades como Cachoeira e Santo Amaro, Santiago do Iguape e Acupe. Este proto-samba infelizmente caiu no caminho de difíceis de encontrar e ouvir...

Há muito espetáculo na Bahia...

Carnaval com seu trio elétrico - caminhões sonoros com músicos no topo - parecendo semi-reboques interestelares de volta do futuro...shows de MPB (música popular brasileira) no Teatro Castro Alves de Salvador (maior palco da América do Sul!) com total valor de produção, o público sentado (como sempre nos teatros modernos) como estátuas da Ilha de Páscoa...

...glamour, glitz, dinheiro, poder e publicitários...

E depois há de onde tudo isso veio... do outro lado da baía, uma terra de agricultores e pescadores de subsistência, muitos dos mais velhos incapazes de ler ou escrever... seus sambas precursores de tudo isso, sem os quais nenhuma das anteriores existiria, suas melodias - quando não criadas por eles mesmos - as invenções de pessoas como eles, mas agora esquecidas (pois a maioria dessas pessoas estará dentro de um par de gerações ou mais), seus ritmos um constante estado de inconstância e fluxo, tocados de uma forma diferente (a maioria) de qualquer grupo de músicos do norte do Trópico de Câncer... fazendo com que o martelo de forja do Hit Parade das últimas décadas seja quase que doloroso de ouvir depois que os ouvidos se acostumam a ritmos sempre mutáveis, tocados como a aurora boreal parece...

Portanto, há o espetáculo, e há o espetacular, e na maioria das vezes o último é encontrado longe do primeiro, entre o povo pobre das aldeias e do sertão, os humildes e os honestos, pessoas que podem dizer mais (como um velho bluesman delta tocando uma guitarra batida em um alpendre flácido) com um pandeiro (pandeiro brasileiro) e uma chula (um "folksong" gritado/cantado) do que a maioria com qualquer tecnologia e dinheiro de apoio que o dinheiro possa comprar. O coração deste assunto, está lá. Se você me perguntar de qualquer forma.

Acima, o incomparável João do Boi, chuleiro, recentemente falecido.

 

 

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