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 MATRIX, THOUGH BRAZIL-BORN, IS UNIVERSAL
This Tommy Peoples 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 Tommy Peoples.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Tommy Peoples (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Tommy Peoples's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
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Who & Where
- Name: Tommy Peoples
- City/Place: St Johnston, County Donegal
- Country: Ireland
Current News
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What's Up?
Tommy Peoples has just published a new book, Ó Am go hAm – From Time to Time: Tutor, Text and Tunes by Tommy Peoples.
The book is a fascinating 400-page compendium which includes a detailed fiddle tutor with notation and illustrations by Tommy, as well as a collection of 130 of Tommy’s original compositions, again with notation by Tommy.
The book also includes insights into Tommy’s life and musical journey through text which explains the titles of his compositions, accompanied by related images and photographs.
The book is now available directly from Tommy, who will personally sign each copy. The price is inclusive of postage. If more than one copy is ordered, please indicate by email to Tommy at tommypeoples@eircom.net the name of the person you would like each book signed to.
The book can be purchased using PayPal below and choosing the proper postal destination. If you would prefer to pay by cheque you can write to Tommy at:
Kinny Cally,
St. Johnston,
County Donegal,
Ireland.
Please be sure to make cheques payable to Tommy Peoples, and include your full postal address and email address.
Further information on the site, below!
Life & Work
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Bio:
Tommy Peoples is a fiddler from County Donegal (born in 1948), where he spent his early years immersed in the style which remains his today. As a teenager he went to live and work in Dublin, becoming part of the traditional music scene.
He worked and recorded with several bands, before joining The Bothy Band, with whom he stayed for about a year-and-a-half, participating in the recording of one of the biggest selling album of traditional Irish music of all time (for which he was never paid). A number of recordings with various ensembles have taken place since then.
Tommy lived for a number of years in Ennis, County Clare, an area renowned for its traditional music, before moving back to St Johnston, the village he is from. His daughter Siobhán is a noted fiddler also.
Tommy has passed away. Rest in Power Tommy Peoples!
Media & Markets
- ▶ Website: http://www.tommypeoples.ie
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCz7bfO3YcZwVC-IYgmlb-2w
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5OoAqGg9bn3SaPPtSWCIKR
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/0QSZhTq2WXldtkMapI7Bw3
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/7lll8KPEGbAgH8gqf108Vo
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"):
