Monday, August 27, 2007

Stevie Wonder + T.O.N.T.O

An Endnote to the previous post: Here's an excerpt from the 6-part BBC documentary Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music (2005) featuring producers Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff talking about the Wonder/Cecil & Margouleff collaboration from their perspectives. They (as well as the BBC's narration) offer some insight, perhaps unintentionally, regarding the potential tensions present in working dynamics between innovative sound engineers/inventors and innovative genius musicians, as well as on issues of authorship and race, albeit less explicitly. Plus, there's some sweet commentary from the always inspired Bootsy Collins.