Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes... Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word... Limned in prosody and cadenced song... brəˈzil / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember". This Matrix BEGINS here in The (benighted) Incandescent Country but it is FOR artists everywhere.
↑ THE MATRIX BEGINS HERE, where Bahian griot Bule Bule (leather hat, Centro Histórico of Salvador, Bahia) sings "Chegou a hora dessa gente bronzeada mostrar seu valor / The time has come for these bronzed people to show their value"... & Luê above sings "O Tio Sam está querendo conhecer a nossa batucada / Uncle Sam is wanting to get to know our drumming" ... Video by Betão Aguiar.
THE MATRIX was built in an obscure record shop (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar found it) in the shimmering Brazilian port city of Salvador. It began with the (living) artists in MATRIX RADIO — one of The Guardian's 10 best below — and moved on to universality. It was inspired in Borges' Aleph (itself inspired in the Kabbala) which contains the entirety of the universe inside it ... but unlike the discernible hum (which Borges describes) emitted by an Aleph inside the pre-Islamic pillar of Cairo's mosque of Amr, this Brazilian Aleph sings. And dances!
www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/apr/17/10-best-music-radio-station-around-world
