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 Zachary Richard 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 Zachary Richard.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Zachary Richard (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Zachary Richard's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
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Who & Where
- Name: Zachary Richard
- City/Place: Lafayette, Louisiana
- Country: United States
Life & Work
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Bio:
Singer-songwriter, poet, cultural activist, environmentalist, Zachary Richard is best known as recording artist and performer. With 20 albums on his roster, including several « gold » and « platinum » albums, his musical career is international.
In 1996, Zachary Richard founded Action Cadienne, a non-profit organization devoted to the promotion of the Acadian culture and French language of Louisiana. In March, 1997, he is decorated Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres of the Republic of France. That same year, he is initiated into the Ordre des Francophones d’Amérique by the government of Québec. In the course of his career he has received four honorary doctorates from the University of Moncton (New Brunswick), the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, l’Université Ste. Anne (Nova Scotia) and the University of Ottawa (Canada). In response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Zachary Richard founded SOS Musiciens to come to the aid of the musical community of Louisiana. In 2009, he is decorated with the Order of Canada, one of very few Americans to receive Canada’s highest civilian award. Following the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe of 2010, Zachary Richard founded Gulf Aid Acadiana to help restore the Louisiana coast and support its communities. The Cercle Richelieu Senghor awards him the Prix Richelieu Senghor in a ceremony at the Senat de France in 2013. In 2015, Zachary Richard is named Humanist of the Year by the Louisiana Endowmment of the Arts. The following year he is decorated Officier des Palmes Académiques by the Republic of France and promoted Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres.
Zachary Richard is producer, narrator, and composer of several television documentaries. In 2000, Against the Tide, the story of the Cajun people of Louisiana is awarded Best Historical Documentary by the National Educational Television Association (USA). The French version, Contre vents, contre marées, is awarded the Prix Historia by the Institut d’Histoire de l’Amérique Française in 2003. Other documentaries will follow, Cœurs Batailleurs, a 26 part series that investigates the Acadian diaspora around the world, and Migrations, which studies bird migration in North America and is awarded the Liriot d’Or (first prize) at the Festival International du Film Ornithologique of France in 2008. More recently, Zachary Richard narrated and composed the music for Kouchibouguac, which examines the social upheaval that accompanied the expropriation of 250 Acadian families for the creation of a Canadian national park. In 2016, in the award winning documentary Cajun Heart, Zachary Richard explores his roots and examines the nature of Acadian / Cajun identity into the 21st century. In 2017, Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) broadcasts Attakapas, the Cajun Story, a multimedia concert with tells the story of the Acadian / Cajun people of Louisiana in song.
Fiercely attached to the French language and Acadian culture of his native Louisiana, Zachary Richard is the author of four children’s books as well as four volumes of poetry (Faire Récolte received the Prix Champlain and Feu the Prix Roland Gasparic in Bucharest), and the History of the Acadians of Louisiana (UL Press). He is Louisiana’s first French Language Poet Laureate.
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
Label - RZ Records
802 Cayret Street
Scott, Louisiana 70583 USA
Management - Claude Thomas
claudethom@gmail.com
Booking
Canada: Stéphanie Raymond
Tel: 514-525-7732 #5649
stephanie.raymond@equipespectra.ca
Acadie et Europe: Carol Doucet
Tel: 506-850-2158
carol@legreniermusique.com
USA: Michael Paz
tel: 504-382-0343
michael@thepazgroup.com
PR - Narimane Doumandji
Tel: 514-554-3956
narimane19@me.com
Publishing - Odette Lindsay - Third Side Music
tel: 514-9042757 #103
odette@thirdsidemusic.com
Media & Markets
- ▶ Buy My Music (downloads/CDs/DVDs): http://www.zacharyrichard.com/discographie
- ▶ Book Purchases: http://www.zacharyrichard.com/boutique
- ▶ Twitter: zacharyofficiel
- ▶ Instagram: ralphzachary
- ▶ Website: http://www.zacharyrichard.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ralphzachary
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCq6Ql9dmNtFnuXBcfufJR_Q
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/0J95Jf3n0swNnGWtoRxbNm
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/1i2kJi5iMVxZ1t3hPr6AJR
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/2jil6MzzJRXNheh2wWbNWk
- ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/2wGoTdhR3gLCMZ8g6R4jPr
- ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/2mu3bKX9LQOR8E5BIVpHLu
- ▶ Spotify 6: http://open.spotify.com/album/3WwXq3C9y3C4PrKgMGrPtK
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"):
