It’s the only evidence of just the amount of research that he was doing to a complicated project like this. Doing this kind of stuff requires a lot of reference materials. Yes of course you want good songs but you’re after the spirit of the place. He fragments ideas and materials - raw materials in to a kind of a collage and reconceptualisation of that spirit in this new world context, in this modern context because in all these songs what you have is the history of the people. It’s the memory of the people. (Romare)
