From his Studio in the middle of the desolated South African Landscape
Alex will be coming to Matjiesfontein to preform and collaborate with the legendary Oom Kosies Band.
Alex writes is his memoirs: "During my prolonged stays in Europe, I have performed at many wonderful electronic music festivals, and have collaborated with many creative people. Nevertheless, there is a mixture of pettiness, narcissism and pragmatism there which eats away at my own delusions of grandeur, my magical thinking.
Having said this, my homeland of South Africa becomes frustratingly slow paced after a while.
I am therefore, a commited nomad. I live as a contemporary frontier rogue on the edges of the Karoo desert, or in absolute contrast, in the centre of Berlin."
In response to these contrasting feelings , using as " source material indigenous rural and urban sounds and rythms from the western cape " ( www.smallfunk.com ), the album Bushtech was born.
"Here the aesthetic is also one of minimalism: the vast desert landscapes; the fine, sparse 'fynbos' flora...also the general world view, one of timelessness and non-linearity.
We have a traditional rural dance music in the Cape called 'vastrap', and I wanted my music to be a kind of new 'vastrap', funky, rural, organic and techy at the same time...a dance music for the future Karoo!"
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