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And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music by Joe Boyd review – the Proust of music
The producer’s epic account of global music’s cross-pollination is an inspiring tale of seduction, expression and freedom from oppression
Caetano Veloso’s jailers ‘considered the Tropicálistas’ deconstructions a far greater threat than any leftwing agitation’ There are “scales, melodies, rhythms, instruments and folk tales all swirling round in that mid-Atlantic gyre,” writes Boyd. A chapter exploring Russian and eastern European music finds Boyd at the Koprivshtitsa festival in Bulgaria: “a stunning spectacle: as far as I could see, there were woods and meadows filled with crowds in wildly colourful traditional garb. Eight stages were scattered across the plateau, each representing a different district.” But on Boyd’s return to Koprivshtitsa after the fall of communism, “wedding bands played a hybrid of simplified Serbian and Thracian beats at a deafening volume”.
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