just saw a live concert with what i'm assuming was the rest of blur (don't know what the rest of them look like) and a bunch of malinese (?) musicians. there wasn't much of a 'fusion'. you could tell when blur was playing back up to more traditional african music and when the malinese musicians where supporting a western song.
not sure of the purpose of all this. wondered if any of y'all had read about this or had thoughts on it.
― JasonD, Friday, 11 October 2002 04:59 (twenty-three years ago)
The Mali Music album is a right dog's dinner, thanks to what seems to have been Damon's assumption that African musicians don't actually compose or think through their songs, they just feel it man, and hence going and recording Toumani Diabate etc. arsing about on their porches and jamming, plus adding 'vibes' to it in London, was going to make for a great musical experience.
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 11 October 2002 08:41 (twenty-three years ago)