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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)
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