ルーペ・フィアスコさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ルーペ・フィアスコInstagram)「“Misty in Roots had earned stripes with local Zimbabweans by playing benefits for the freedom fighters, particularly when a show was disrupted by a gang of skinheads. After independence, Misty was invited to perform in Zimbabwe, and Chris accompanied the musicians on a six-month visit there, during which they shared stages with the Blacks Unlimited. By the time the two bands reunited in London’s Addis Ababa Studio to record Chimurenga for Justice in 1986, one Misty in Roots singer had gone so far as to buy a farm in Zimbabwe—later seized as a “white farm”—and Chris had begun making yearly trips there, importing badly needed PA gear and hiring himself out as a soundman. One night, while working a show at Harare’s Holiday Inn, Chris met a beautiful Ndebele woman named Anne and, after an electrifying romance, married her. This helped him become certified as a guest worker in Zimbabwe, and he soon went into business, earning a living doing sound for the country’s top bands: the Blacks Unlimited, Devera Ngwena, the mixed-race band Ilanga, and even the fabulously successful Bhundu Boys. Chris befriended Benny Miller, Mapfumo’s pick to travel as the soundman for the upcoming American tour. As Chris helped Benny prepare, it became clear that Benny “really didn’t fancy being on a tour.” When Benny pulled out, Chartwell nominated Chris to step in. Chartwell admired Chris’s unflappable demeanor—in part, the result of a steady diet of half-tobacco, half-ganja cigarettes. Underneath, Chris was built like a bull and ghetto tough, and now he too had fallen hard for Thomas’s music. He leapt at the opportunity. One reason the band sounded so good on tour was that Chris Bolton understood the subtle art of mixing Thomas Mapfumo’s music. Over the next decade touring with the band, he would bail out countless rock engineers who unfailingly made a hash of the Blacks Unlimited’s sound. “In the first place,” recalled Chris, “they’re going to put the bass drum up too loud—whack, whack, whack. That’s it. That will kill the music to begin with. The way I mix it, I mix it down. If you can’t hear something, I try to pull everything else down. Because it is never meant to be loud music”」6月18日 1時07分