Robert,
i played one of your tracks last night, did you see the playlist i posted?
as far as Ry is concerned, if you think about Captain Beefheart and Cooder's contribution to his music, say on "Safe As Milk", and you extrapolate that out through Ry's film scores, it is a really huge body of work but for the first time on Buena Vista, he was more obvious to me as the tourist, even as amazing a tourist as Ry is, he is definitely not Cuban! i comment on this in all respect for Ry Cooder, who i first met with the Captain.
Does anyone else on the list know the work of Captain Beefheart? some of his work with Zappa is astonishing and i daresay that some of those songs, perhaps "Hot Rats" could be the basis for pretty sick remix tricks.
leslie/The Power of Sound
leslie
----- Original Message -----
From: robert@vaneglory.com
To: Leslie N. Shill
Cc: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 10:17 AM
Subject: Re:Buena Vista
Leslie,
And I've been watching Ry since 'Into the Purple Valley' and respected his contributions
to the commercial music biz over the years.
It was just comforting to have my guilty criticism validated aloud by others.
Cheers!
Robert
"Leslie N. Shill" wrote:
Robert, I have to agree with you about Ry Cooder on Buena Vista. Although I hold him very high regard as a musician, a writer and as a producer. the Cuban musicians are so connected to each other and intuitive about the playing of their fellow band members that Ry is pretty much superfluous. i understand why he went for the slide guitar but the result is a bit of a mish-mash for me. With Ali Farka Toure the production and seamless playing gave Ry a textural fit that was not at all obtrusive. To me the Cubans are just so damn goooood and they seem steeped in the foundation and layers of Cuban music! leslie/The Power of Sound
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