….this old chestnut (again! 😆), talent seeks out the best people to work with, no idea why this ‘he was just a passenger’ thing endlessly gets trotted-out in relation to Sasha, there are very few creative ventures where this doesn’t happen to some degree.
Sasha gets the people together in the studio, drives the project forward, exercises the quality control, then puts his name on it…
The legendary Xpander riff existed as a forgotten file on Charlie May’s hard drive and would never have been heard by anybody until Sasha saw the potential in it… pretty sure CM has said as much himself.