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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