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Sunday 22 November 2009

Mixing it

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown name-checks me in her article about cross-cultural fusion in the arts - a healthy phenomenon, of course, as long as it doesn't result in wall-to-wall copies of "Slumdog Millionaire" (the original was boring enough.) One of the first pieces of crossover music - or whatever you want to call it - that made an impact on me was "Stone Flower", as performed by Santana. "Caravanserai" was the first rock LP I ever bought. I was about fifteen at the time, and picked it out of the display shelves mainly because of the gorgeous desert image on the sleeve. I had no idea who the "A.C. Jobim" was who was credited with composing the tune. Little did I know that I was making the acquaintance of a songwriter who's become one of my gods. When I bought the CD version of the album many years later, it was gratifying to discover the number sounded just as cool as it had done three decades earlier.

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