He knew what he wanted, and I felt we would be in good hands. He called me on the phone — this would have been in 94 or 95 — and said he felt the rhythms and melodies of the Cuban song form had travelled to West Africa, and some guitar players in Africa could play the songs.
He was going to put them together with these trova players from Oriente, beginning with Eliades Ochoa who he had spoken with. He asked if I would come down to Havana and help him produce. It was different for me with the Africans, because they play in three-four time while we, the West, play 1, 2, 3, 4. It made me wonder what was going to happen. Are the Africans going to convert to clave? But I said, sure, whatever happens.
And my wife, [son and drummer] Joaquim and I got on a plane and we went down. Originally we had a straight-ahead guitar album in mind. We fell in synch with our love for Arsenio Rodriguez. They said it was a lost passport, although the account is disputed. Cooder: To get in [to Cuba], those days you had to come in from Mexico. We arrived at around p. I had my quartet, Cuarteto Patria, since , and was always working. They had kind of drifted away from art.
Gold : Egrem recording studio was way beyond my dreams. You walk off the street straight through these doors, through these winding stairs, and you walk into this studio which is a real crucible of Cuban music. It was just a beautiful looking room: large, wooden floors, wooden ceiling, with these funny looking wooden chairs. The actual room was very large, and the control room had a British console. On the first day of recording, the equipment went down and it was taken apart by the engineers and I was almost in tears.
Cooder: We kept having to move the grand piano away from the leaks in the roof. The other thing was, the electricity was bad. That draws a lot of power. The tape machine kept changing speed. The board operator figured out that the entire booth was going through one socket in the wall, the kind of thing you would plug your toaster in. The maintenance guy said no one ever complained about this before.
At that time the group had kind of settled around the piano, and the room begins to talk to you. A group is a group and you need to hear the group. So we had to back off the mike, as if it were classical music.
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