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 Zakir Hussain 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 Zakir Hussain.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Zakir Hussain (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Zakir Hussain's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
- → Routes by The Matrix
Who & Where
- Name: Zakir Hussain
- City/Place: San Francisco, California
- Country: United States
Life & Work
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Bio:
Zakir Hussain is today appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large as an international phenomenon. A classical tabla virtuoso of the highest order, his consistently brilliant and exciting performances have not only established him as a national treasure in his own country, India, but gained him worldwide fame.
His playing is marked by uncanny intuition and masterful improvisational dexterity, founded in formidable knowledge and study. The favorite accompanist for many of India’s greatest classical musicians and dancers, he has not let his genius rest there. Widely considered a chief architect of the contemporary world music movement, Zakir’s contribution to world music has been unique, with many historic collaborations, including Shakti, which he founded with John McLaughlin and L. Shankar, Remember Shakti, the Diga Rhythm Band, Making Music, Planet Drum with Mickey Hart, Tabla Beat Science, Sangam with Charles Lloyd and Eric Harland and recordings and performances with artists as diverse as George Harrison, YoYo Ma, Joe Henderson, Van Morrison, Airto Moreira, Pharoah Sanders, Billy Cobham, Mark Morris, Rennie Harris, and the Kodo drummers.
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
IMG Artists
DEAN SHULTZ
dshultz@imgartists.com
www.imgartists.com
212 994 3500
7 West 54th St.
New York, NY 10019
Media & Markets
- ▶ Buy My Music (downloads/CDs/DVDs): http://www.momentrecords.com
- ▶ Twitter: zakirhtabla
- ▶ Instagram: officialzakirhussain
- ▶ Website: http://www.zakirhussain.com
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCHMR1Eq-zq8cAmMLHbdtxpQ
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/6Z5RRaRtxckdDY9W9711lB
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/2DK6dpOqFfi9s5gXaMUHOe
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/5n2VyhtcSF6k0JJcCtabD0
- ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/1Fc8yR4hBdWcDpRDMuX51I
- ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/0ejADj4ASGiKt2Tn9mlZHM
- ▶ Spotify 6: http://open.spotify.com/album/0Gjp6bjN1furRn7bHAIsdi
Clips (more may be added)
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"):
