| Carlos Santana lotus record in Japan; it was the thing that when you see
them on tours or getting in the plane it, on a concert, like the Budokan
with Japanese musicians, there was a kind of energy surrounding them. With
a pagoda sometime next to them or behind them, the magic was just there.
You think yourself. Whoua !!! I could not differentiate between the Chinese
building and the Japanese buildings. Then I soon pick up in finding those
records and in buying them. I learn about Japan from musicians. Things
were connected. It became the theme. One Day something will happen for
me there. There was always a talk in the magazine like this thing is big
in Japan. This band has made it there. Something about making it in Japan
was something even more important to me than making it in America. It became
my own personal journey. Because what I consider to be exotic, what I consider
to be stylish, to be different to my own culture. Sometimes we are more
attracted to the opposite or to these desires that seems to be a balance
in life, either between nature and architecture, art, or when in Japan
I looked into the sounds of the koto. (I started to collect stamps and
musical instruments from around the world, it was my themes.) I didn’t
know that I would become so linked to Japan. Now I am even married to a
Japanese lady. It was not a plan. It was not like as if I plan all this
or wanted to do this; it just happened along the way. |
