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Bahian Music, Arts & Culture

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  • On Music
    • The Essential Music of Bahia
    • Tropicália & Woodstock: 50 Years On, the More Things Change!
    • Pernambuco in Bahia: Frevo in Armandinho
    • A Brief Introduction to the Deep & Splendid History of Brazilian Music
    • The Viola Machete in the Bahian Recôncavo
    • Salvador, Bahia Meets New Orleans, Louisiana
    • Q: What is Jazz? A: American Samba!
    • Bossa Nova, Born in Bahia
  • Salvador I
    • OPEN: Salvador’s Centro Histórico and Environs
      • Pelourinho: The Old Town
      • A Black Brotherhood: Sociedade Protectora dos Desvalidos
      • Pelourinho’s Vaunted Tuesday Night Party is a Wan Shadow of Its Former Self
      • Santa Casa da Misericórdia
    • OPEN: Redolent History
      • A Brief History of Salvador
      • Uprising! Revolt of the Malês
      • Slave Landings by Numbers
    • OPEN: Metropolitan Localities
      • Neighborhoods of Salvador
      • More Neighborhoods of Salvador: Carmo and Santo Antônio além do Carmo
    • Intriguing Sites
    • OPEN: Food and Drink
      • Bahian Cuisine
    • Beaches of Salvador & Environs
  • Salvador II
    • Two Black Americas
    • Dancing Gods
    • OPEN: Stories from the Center of the Sun
      • Massapê by Ben Paris
      • Exu’s Fedora by Ben Paris
      • Because He Didn’t Want to Wake Her by Ben Paris
    • Candomblé: African Deities and Brazil’s National Ethos
    • Capoeira: Dance Like a Baryshnikov; Hit Like a Kalashnikov
    • The Afoxés & Blocos Afros of Salvador
    • Dance Classes in Salvador
    • Percussion Classes in Salvador
    • Music Classes In Salvador
  • Salvador III
    • Treasure Fields of Bahia: The Great Recôncavo
    • Behold the Star of David Illuminating the Bahia Sky!
    • Festivals in Salvador and Bahia: the Sacred & the Profana
    • Carnival in Salvador, Bahia
    • Do NOT Miss the Carnival House When You Are in Salvador!
    • OPEN: Happenings in Salvador and Environs
      • Specific Events
  • Salvador IV
    • Contact Us
    • Guided Tours of Salvador, Bahia & Environs
    • Our Street in Pelourinho, Bahia’s Backlands Massacre, Favelas and Brazil’s Musical Balm of Gilead
    • Who We Are
    • We’re Interviewed On U.S. National Public Radio
  • Salvador V
    • The End of Something
    • DOWNLOAD BRAZILIAN MUSIC: Pay what you wish, only if you wish to pay!
    • Portuguese Lessons & Classes in Salvador
    • The Loveliest Lullaby in the World: Straight Outta Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
    • Infrequently Asked Questions
  • THE MATRIX

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Our Contents

  • A Black Brotherhood: Sociedade Protectora dos Desvalidos
  • A Brave New (Matrixed) World
  • A Brief History of Primordial Salvador
  • A Brief Introduction to the Deep & Splendid History of Brazilian Music
  • A Numinous Night on the Bay of All Saints
  • Bahian Cuisine
  • Bahian Culture and Police of Salvador, Bahia
  • Beaches of Salvador & Environs
  • Because He Didn’t Want to Wake Her
  • Behold the Star of David Illuminating the Bahia Sky!
  • Black Samba
  • Bossa Nova, Born in Bahia
  • Candomblé: African Deities and Brazil’s National Ethos
  • Capoeira: Dance Like a Baryshnikov; Hit Like a Kalashnikov
  • Carnival in Salvador, Bahia!
  • Contact Us
  • Dance Classes in Salvador
  • Dancing Gods
  • Do NOT Miss the Carnival House When You Are in Salvador!
  • Download Brazilian Music!
  • Exu’s Fedora
  • Festivals in Salvador and Bahia: the Sacred & the Profana
  • Guided Tours of Salvador, Bahia & Environs
  • Infrequently Asked Questions
  • Intriguing Sites
  • João do Boi and Brazil: Body & Soul
  • Massapê
  • Music Classes In Salvador
  • Neighborhoods of Salvador
  • Neighborhoods of Salvador: Carmo and Santo Antônio além do Carmo
  • Our Street in Pelourinho, Bahia’s Backlands Massacre, Favelas and Brazil’s Musical Balm of Gilead
  • Pelourinho, the Centro Histórico, & Environs
  • Pelourinho’s Vaunted Tuesday Night Party is a Wan Shadow of Its Former Self
  • Percussion Classes in Salvador
  • Pernambuco in Bahia: Frevo in Armandinho
  • Portuguese Lessons & Classes in Salvador
  • Primordial Samba
  • Q: What is Jazz? A: American Samba!
  • Salvador, Bahia Meets New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
  • Santa Casa da Misericórdia
  • Slave Landings by Numbers
  • The Afoxés & Blocos Afros of Salvador
  • The Essential Music of Bahia
  • The Great Recôncavo of Bahia
  • The Loveliest Lullaby in the World: Straight Outta Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
  • The Viola Machete in the Bahian Recôncavo
  • Tropicália & Woodstock: 50 Years On, the More Things Change!
  • Two Black Americas
  • Uncle Burl: Between Bahia, Brazil and the Heart of America
  • Uprising! Revolt of the Malês
  • What Makes Brazil Brazil?
  • Who We Are

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About Us

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We are estrangeiros in a strangely uplifting and marvel-filled land.

Help Spread the Word about an Amazing Place!

Brazil is a troubled country with an amazing culture (some would say that the relationship between trouble-and-culture is cause-and-effect, like the abrasive and destructive grain of sand enveloped in nacreous pearl).

We, with the moving music of others (hot-handed Brazilians) and our own expositions based in time-gathered experiences (and the moving also fiction of baiano de coração Ben Paris), do what we can to divulge the truly splendidly beautiful side of a place about which most people hear only the bad.

The matrix is of course virtual. We are also real-world-style flesh-and-blood dust-and-light in Cana Brava Records per the map below:

Cana Brava Records in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
In Salvador’s Centro Histórico; Authentic Brazilian Music, from the plantations to the quintais to the salas!

Find Us

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Under This Sign at This Address
Rua João de Deus, 22
Pelourinho, Salvador
Bahia, Brazil

Our logo is a sugarcane cutter. The great root of Brazil’s fabulous national art (music) is on the sugarcane plantations of Bahia, across the  bay from Salvador.

The music which would become paramount in Brazil began at the very bottom of Brazil’s societal strata.

As the music which would become paramount in the United States, and to a great degree the entire world, likewise started at the bottom of the economic heap.

Both — Brazilian and American — born in the minds, hearts and souls of people who in a greater way of seeing things, were right there at the empyrean pinnacle.

Randy Roberts
Tel/Whatsapp:
+55 71 9 9976-2049
sparrowroberts@gmail.com

Ben Paris
Tel/Whatsapp:
+55 71 9 8812-4576
bt_paris@yahoo.com