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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.

 

  • Toby Gough
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Criador acima/Creator above

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Toby Gough
  • City/Place: London
  • Country: United Kingdom

Life & Work

  • Bio: Toby Gough is a director/producer of musical shows which have appeared on every continent except for Antarctica...

    From Broadway to New Zealand...

    Set to the music of Cuba, India, Ireland, Brazil, Africa, the Roma...

    He is a protean klieg light photon which by its nature is incapable of remaining stationary and which like some mysterious quantum phenomenon seems to be everywhere at once, illuminating.

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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 Toby Gough:

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  • 4 Musical Theater
  • 4 Producer
  • 4 Writer
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  • Ken Avis World Jazz
  • Tarus Mateen Record Producer
  • David Castillo Moorpark College Faculty
  • Neymar Dias Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Béco Dranoff New York City
  • Teresa Cristina Songwriter
  • Elizabeth LaPrelle Old-Time Music
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  • Carlos Aguirre Piano
  • Ronald Bruner Jr. Record Producer
  • Luíz Paixão Forró
  • Muhsinah Hip-Hop
  • Moacyr Luz Rio de Janeiro
  • Chris Boardman University of Miami Frost School of Music Faculty
  • John Waters Playwright
  • Bill Frisell Brooklyn, NY
  • Nabih Bulos Foreign Correspondent
  • Echezonachukwu Nduka Classical Music
  • VJ Gabiru DJ
  • Márcio Bahia Brazil
  • Elio Villafranca Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Alexia Arthurs Short Stories
  • Spok Frevo Orquestra Pernambuco
  • Ibrahim Maalouf Beirut, Lebanon
  • Nilze Carvalho Choro
  • Merima Ključo Contemporary Classical Music
  • Missy Mazolli Composer
  • Stan Douglas Installation Artist
  • Itamar Vieira Júnior Writer
  • Jorge Washington Actor
  • Keith Jarrett Classical Music
  • Jessie Montgomery Violin
  • Angelique Kidjo Singer-Songwriter
  • David Castillo Opera
  • Nublu Jazz
  • Greg Ruby Composer
  • Congahead Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Robi Botos Toronto
  • Ênio Bernardes Produtor de Discos, Record Producer
  • Aderbal Duarte Guitar
  • Jimmy Cliff Jamaica
  • Luques Curtis Latin Jazz
  • Musa Okwonga Football Journalist
  • Hugo Linns Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Henry Cole Drums
  • Renato Braz São Paulo
  • Mickalene Thomas Painter
  • Pretinho da Serrinha Percussion
  • Varijashree Venugopal Singer
  • Lalah Hathaway Jazz
  • Cory Wong Songwriter
  • Paulo César Pinheiro Brazil
  • Jonathon Grasse California State University, Dominguez Hills Faculty
  • Molly Tuttle Bluegrass
  • Ned Sublette Cuba
  • Asali Solomon Haverford College Faculty
  • Carlos Malta Clarinet
  • Matthew Guerrieri Music Writer
  • Sam Wasson Los Angeles
  • Hugues Mbenda Marseille
  • Luciana Souza Brazil
  • Alana Gabriela Educadora, Educator
  • Nguyên Lê Film Scores
  • Paulinho da Viola Singer-Songwriter
  • Pierre Onassis Música AFRO
  • Ajurinã Zwarg Samba
  • Scott Yanow Liner Notes
  • Adriano Giffoni Author
  • Serwah Attafuah NFTs
  • Walter Pinheiro Flute
  • Horacio Hernández Havana
  • John Luther Adams Contemporary Classical Music
  • Eddie Palmieri Composer
  • Simon Shaheen Composer
  • Leo Nocentelli Funk
  • Tonynho dos Santos Jazz
  • Shannon Ali Cultural Critic
  • Amitava Kumar Vassar College Faculty
  • Chau do Pife Maceió
  • Antônio Pereira Manaus
  • Mário Pam Percussion Classes & Workshops
  • Darrell Green Drums
  • David Binney Saxophone
  • Christian Sands Piano
  • Sarz Sample Creator
  • Kevin Burke Fiddle
  • Marquis Hill Chicago
  • Rachel Aroesti England
  • Vincent Valdez Painter
  • Béla Fleck Americana
  • Mestre Barachinha Caboclo de Lança
  • Andrew Huang Toronto
  • Júlio Lemos Samba
  • Arto Lindsay MPB
  • Rudy Royston Classical Music
  • Zé Luíz Nascimento Brazil
  • Joshua Abrams Bass
  • Del McCoury Singer
  • Brenda Navarrete Havana
  • Corey Henry Songwriter
  • Terence Blanchard New Orleans
  • James Andrews Trumpet
  • Mario Caldato Jr. Bass
  • Toninho Horta Singer
  • Andrew Gilbert Roots Music
  • Abel Selaocoe Singer
  • Fred Dantas Salvador
  • Luis Paez-Pumar Editor
  • Steve Lehman Jazz
  • Jason Treuting Composer
  • Ari Hoenig Author
  • Safy-Hallan Farah Magazine Publisher
  • Horacio Hernández Drums
  • Colson Whitehead Novelist
  • Oswaldinho do Acordeon Brazil
  • Timothy Duffy New Orleans
  • OVANA Homemade Instruments
  • William Parker Composer
  • Rez Abbasi Guitar
  • Dale Farmer Folk & Traditional
  • Luedji Luna Bahia
  • Priscila Castro Brasil, Brazil
  • Kenny Barron New York City
  • Taj Mahal Singer-Songwriter
  • Nubya Garcia Composer
  • Yilian Cañizares Jazz
  • Duncan Chisholm Composer
  • Priscila Castro Música Afro-Amazônica, Afro-Amazonian Music
  • Tia Surica Samba
  • Guilherme Kastrup Record Producer
  • Chris Cheek Brooklyn, NY
  • Julian Lloyd Webber London
  • César Camargo Mariano Piano
  • João Luiz Brazilian Classical Guitar
  • Shannon Ali Liner Notes
  • Vinson Cunningham New York City
  • Oded Lev-Ari New York City
  • Alex Clark Columbia Journalism School Faculty
  • David Bruce Opera
  • Quatuor Ebène Classical Music
  • Orlando Costa Brazil
  • Áurea Martins MPB
  • Hanif Abdurraqib Essayist
  • Kenny Barron Jazz
  • Richie Barshay Drums
  • Jas Kayser Jazz
  • Hopkinson Smith Baroque Guitar
  • Rogério Caetano Rio de Janeiro
  • Marcus Miller Los Angeles
  • Rudresh Mahanthappa Multi-Cultural
  • Diosmar Filho Geógrafo, Geographer
  • Mazz Swift Singer
  • Ben Azar Guitar
  • Maria Drell Bahia
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  • Matthew Guerrieri Composer
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  • George Porter Jr. R&B
  • Shannon Sims Rio de Janeiro
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  • Congahead World Music
  • Nikki Yeoh Jazz
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  • Tyshawn Sorey Composer
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  • Hamilton de Holanda Brazilian Jazz
  • Taylor Ashton Brooklyn, NY
  • Astrig Akseralian Ceramic Artist
  • Donald Vega Composer
  • Jim Hoke Arranger
  • Gaby Moreno Guitar
  • Darol Anger Composer
  • Welson Tremura Ethnomusicologist
  • Mark Lettieri Ropeadope
  • Joachim Cooder Percussion
  • Hercules Gomes Composer
  • Betsayda Machado Folk & Traditional
  • Stan Douglas Filmmaker
  • Swami Jr. Cuban Music
  • Ênio Bernardes Percussão, Percussion
  • Carlos Lyra Rio de Janeiro
  • Tele Novella Psych Pop
  • Richie Pena Drums
  • Billy Strings Mandolin
  • Joey Baron New York City
  • Nelson Cerqueira Brasil, Brazil
  • James Martin Brass Band
  • Turíbio Santos Brazil
  • Craig Ross Record Producer
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  • Filhos da Pitangueira Samba
  • Stephen Kurczy Journalist
  • Stephen Guerra Brazil
  • Terence Blanchard Educator
  • Derrick Hodge Hip-Hop
  • Tony Allen Nigeria
  • Cassandra Osei Historian of Latin America & African Diaspora
  • Alan Brain Screenwriter
  • Dan Tepfer Jazz
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  • Stefon Harris Composer
  • Sam Eastmond Trumpet
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  • Makaya McCraven Chicago, Illinois
  • Shemekia Copeland Chicago
  • Priscila Castro Amazon
  • Christopher Seneca Diplomat
  • Ry Cooder Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Papa Mali Louisiana
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  • Michael League Bandleader
  • Jon Faddis Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Garth Cartwright London
  • McCoy Mrubata South Africa
  • Victor Wooten Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Hank Roberts Vocalist
  • Jonga Cunha Author
  • Paulo César Pinheiro Samba
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  • Marcus Miller Record Producer
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  • Melanie Charles Soul
  • Carlos Malta Saxophone
  • Rosa Passos Singer-Songwriter
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  • Nicolas Krassik Samba
  • Raelis Vasquez Drawings
  • Gringo Cardia Architect
  • Sara Gazarek Jazz
  • Calida Rawles Los Angeles
  • Jorge Aragão Brazil
  • Jerry Douglas Dobro
  • Stefano Bollani Italy
  • Alana Gabriela Salvador
  • Kurt Andersen Television Writer
  • Gerald Cleaver Drums
  • Larry McCray Guitar
  • Kurt Andersen New York City
  • Andrew Finn Magill Irish Traditional Music
  • Imani Winds Multi-Cultural
  • Renato Braz Guitar
  • Tom Green Glasgow
  • Art Rosenbaum Painter
  • Wayne Shorter Jazz
  • Mário Santana São Braz
  • John Francis Flynn Dublin
  • Carla Visi Singer
  • Chris Speed New York City
  • Jane Ira Bloom Contemporary Classical Music
  • Dan Trueman Composer
  • Mauro Senise Choro
  • Jurandir Santana Brazilian Jazz
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  • Milton Primo Singer-Songwriter
  • Matt Ulery Chicago
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  • Ana Luisa Barral Brazil
  • Isaiah J. Thompson New York City
  • Iuri Passos Percussion
  • Sharay Reed Composer
  • Jurandir Santana Composer
  • Goran Krivokapić Montenegro
  • Munyungo Jackson Composer
  • James Brandon Lewis Saxophone
  • Jeffrey Boakye Radio Presenter
  • Daniil Trifonov Classical Music
  • Olga Mieleszczuk Warsaw
  • Richard Galliano Paris, France
  • Gilberto Gil Brazil
  • Mateus Asato Brazil
  • Chick Corea Jazz
  • Branford Marsalis Film Scores
  • Yazz Ahmed Audio Manipulation
  • Guinha Ramires Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Fabian Almazan Piano
  • Lenny Kravitz Record Producer
  • Léo Rugero Sanfona de 8 Baixos
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  • Billy O'Shea Novelist
  • Adriene Cruz Textile Artist
  • Derron Ellies Singer
  • Awadagin Pratt Piano
  • Steve Bailey Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Saileog Ní Cheannabháin Fiddle
  • Gabriel Grossi Samba
  • Liz Pelly Journalist
  • Luizinho do Jêje Bahia
  • Bill Callahan Austin, Texas
  • Márcio Bahia Samba
  • Derrick Adams Performance Artist
  • Kotringo Singer-Songwriter
  • Lula Moreira Maracatu
  • Greg Osby Jazz
  • Ballaké Sissoko Mali
  • Daniil Trifonov Composer
  • Muri Assunção Latinx
  • Massimo Biolcati Bass
  • Nelson Ayres Arranger
  • Dermot Hussey Pan-Africana
  • Carrtoons Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Donald Harrison Jazz
  • Dan Tyminski Nashville, Tennessee
  • Michael Formanek Peabody Conservatory of Music Faculty
  • Gian Correa Violão de Sete
  • Monk Boudreaux Percussion
  • Nêgah Santos Pandeiro
  • Caroline Shaw Singer
  • Serginho Meriti Rio de Janeiro
  • Daedelus DJ
  • Steve Coleman Jazz
  • Filhos da Pitangueira Bahia
  • José James R&B
  • Jorge Glem Mandolin
  • David Hepworth Writer
  • Celsinho Silva Brazil
  • Will Holshouser Folk & Traditional
  • Jamie Dupuis Composer
  • Logan Richardson Jazz
  • Kevin Hays Piano Instruction
  • Endea Owens Composer
  • Benjamin Grosvenor United Kingdom
  • Gustavo Di Dalva Percussion Instruction Online
  • Tambay Obenson Los Angeles
  • Darol Anger Record Producer
  • Shannon Sims Brazil
  • Abel Selaocoe Multi-Cultural
  • G. Thomas Allen Singer-Songwriter
  • Issa Malluf Doumbek
  • Roy Germano Author
  • John Schaefer New York City
  • Steve Cropper Recording Studio Owner

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

 

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