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Many people worked hard to make this happen
Einar 2022-03-25 09:01:16
How did it all start? A friend who was a recording artist in London called and asked me if I would go to Cuba and work with him to make a Cuban music record involving farmers and West African musicians. It sounded like a new and good idea, and I said, Okay, my wife and I went to Harwana in the 70s and wandered around looking for black music on a cassette that a friend gave me. The band played was great, the songs were amazing, I'd never heard anything like that, so my wife and I went to Cuba to look around and really heard some beautiful old songs, but I didn't know what to do, At that time I didn't know how to pursue what I wanted, so I went home and didn't think about it. This time, Nigao said that those Africans were going. I was delayed in Paris and had to do it here. I think we should do what we had on hand. We started to ask everywhere. With the help of Marcus, we quickly Find everyone in the band, the guy who played the piano in Barbaro Digadu, it turned out to be the guy on the tapes that I collected, they are all the people I admired on the record for a long time, I don't know if they are still alive, Lu Bing hasn't had a piano for ten years, he didn't play at all, he said he had arthritis, so he couldn't play, of course that's not true, you have to have such good luck to find out that so many people are still alive, they've been forgotten, And still love to play music and be generous with the talent and knowledge I have, and I think it's been a wonderful experience, it's rare, maybe once in a lifetime, and when I flew back to Los Angeles, I started thinking, can I invite them It would be nice to play somewhere but that record is selling well and they are very busy and the only possible location is Amsterdam so in April they played 2 nights in a theatre there and I know Carnegie Hall is a must, those The old Cuban was asking when he would go to New York and when he would perform at Carnegie Hall. I thought this would not happen, but many people worked hard to make it happen, so we finally got there on 7.1.
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