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# Layered memories #1
- URL: https://musings.sebastienvigneau.xyz/layered-memories-1/
- Published: 2026-09-23T17:31:37.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-23T17:31:37.000Z
- Author: Sébastien Vigneau
- Tags: Layered memories

Yesterday I listened to [St. James Infirmary](https://tidal.com/track/59119315/u?ref=musings.sebastienvigneau.xyz) played by the Silkroad Ensemble on my headphones while running along the Hudson River in New York City. I first learned about this song by playing it in an amateur band in Philadelphia a few years after moving to the United States. We were weirdly called "Sea Teeth" (another story).   
The 1933 [animation](https://archive.org/details/bb%5Fsnow%5Fwhite) of that song by Max Fleischer, featuring Cab Calloway, feels so modern and, in a very different way, so does Silkroad's adaptation, with its unique ability to combine different music styles from remote places and eras into a coherent whole under the charismatic Yo-Yo Ma. Witnessing such creativity and the embrace of diversity to build something new and unique is a wonderful feeling and one reason I stayed.