Many vary times and very many times also, I’ve been asked what kind of music do I play. Didgeridoo music? This question of category was one of the hardest ones. I do not know what kind of instrument I play. Is 10 meter didgeridoo still a didgeridoo? It looks like one, but so does contrabass and violin look alike. And this is the material world, the “music question” in etherical realm is just catapulted eons of think years away… If there were only my themes, they would discard me… I play about rotten rooms of falling thoughts, about dream capsuled of giant and dwarf, about a raven crossing realities…And those are only ideas,t he “what”, “how”defines your genre much more if I got that right…
Many connect “didgeridoo” to world music… well it is obvious why… but it is not really true for so many didgeridoo players… We have no real connection to that term instead of instrument and to mix terms like that would lead us to contradiction in terms…
What is left of genres if you want to be more sincere is “acoustic” -ok, but than you can just say you play “music”. Maybe you halved the category, but still, this is just pointing out the obvious. It’s like calling “unplugged” every album that you make.
I have to remember what’s written in my profile. “Minimalist” I think. Yes, I have one tube, that must be minimalistic. It makes sense, but for somebody who did not hear this music, and heard of other minimalists, might be a bit misleading…
We are left with experimental. I like that one, it is like saying you do experiments in the high tower of your castle. Green flames of explosions coming out your windows when you play. Experiments are not always successful, so is not your music….
And if I am correct, we have the category “other”. I love that one. I play other music. Other than what you think. Other than what is. Just other. If you come to my concert I will just play something other than that.
But recently I had a nice drop in head that solves the situation.
The name in the drop said ALTER ETHNO.
But what is alter ethno!? Here is my try to describe it how I feel it, for I am far from giving any definitions.
Alter ethno is what ethno would sound like if people were different. In history. If they did not cling to their love, misery, war.. misery of love in war… war in misery of love…love of misery in war (well… maybe not that one)…
I have naive look at the world so I imagine people in the “old days” being simpler than today: I imagine people playing what is now known as “ethno” to be peasants. So that is the realm in which we stay. Simple tools. Shovels. Ploughs.
But there is a possiblity that there was a peasant who was interested in the vastness of Space and space that is there. Who was interested in beauty as such and curious places it hides when one tries to capture it. In the green thing that makes trees have leaves and people have hair. Over their body. In unexpected order of things in disorder and the other way around.
I feel like that peasant trying to explore mysteries of the Space with a shovel.
So I would call the way of music I am in, alter ethno.
Alter Ethno
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