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Re: The Dark Age
On 11 feb 2006, at 16.01, Matthias Grob wrote:
> plus, by living in Brasil, I participate in a completely different
> movement which also offers a huge variety of interesting stuff!
That's a great opportunity! Settling in a different part of the
world and start taking in the music that is hot in your new
environment. I admire your courage in taking that big step! I did it
in a much smaller scale in the early nineties by living four months
at Cap Verde. Right when I got there I met a Cap Verdian guitarrist
and we started to play acoustic guitar duo stuff together. I was so
amazed to find out that those guys still loved the Al Di Meola and
Brand-X music I had been so involved with in the seventies. It was
like time had been standing still for fifteen years for them. At
first I felt uncomfortable with the situation, leaving "my cool
stuff" back in Sweden (Dead Can DAnce, Coctau Twins, Xenakis, Cabaret
Voltaire, Jon Hassel, Nico, Kowalski etc) and suddenly being "back on
square one". But then we started playing delta blues and Morna, the
traditional Cap Verdian folk music style and crossing these two
styles into something that became very popular (rendering us some
"big" gigs). For the first time I understood how refreshing it can be
to play something different than you are usually listening to
(although I had done that as a pro musician, but that's different as
being a job). The effect on your musicianship is similar to moving
over to a different instrument (or playing backwards like Zawinul did
- as some pointed out earlier on this list), you regain the
perspective on what music is about. That perspective can be lost if
listening and performing the same style all over... well, at least if
you're quite young. As time goes by you get a better feel for "the
real thing" ;-)
Greetings from Sweden
Per Boysen
www.looproom.com (international)
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
---> iTunes Music Store (digital)
www.cdbaby.com/perboysen