‘I was flattered’: Bahamas musician Afie Jurvanen on making music with Robbie Robertson

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‘I was flattered’: Bahamas musician Afie Jurvanen on making music with Robbie Robertson GlobeArts

For those who haven’t heard the new Robbie Robertson record, don’t worry. Neither has Afie Jurvanen – and he played guitar and sang on it. The album, Sinematic, was inspired in part by the film-score work Robertson was doing for Martin Scorsese’s forthcoming Netflix mob drama, The Irishman, with Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. While Robertson was working on the score and the album, Robertson’s manager phoned Jurvanen and asked him to come down to Robertson’s studio in Los Angeles.

I still didn’t know what I was doing there. It wasn’t clear to me. But Robbie played five or six songs that were in various stages of production. Basically, he liked the way I made my own albums and my guitar work and the way I did the vocals with Felicity. He said it would be cool to have some of that on the music he had just played for me.

I was busy though. I didn’t really have any time. Eventually he just sent me the tracks and I did most of my stuff in Toronto. Felicity and I would do a lot of singing together. Or, as we often do, I’ll play something on the guitar and she’ll just take off with that melody. She can do things that don’t even sound like a vocal part.

 

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