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P e o P l e
BUt yOU ArE A SOLOISt − wELL, NOt
wHEN yOU PLAy wItH KAtALENA, tErrA F
AND MANy OtHEr BANDS. wHEN I HEArD
AND SAw yOU PLAy, My FIrSt wOrDS
wErE tHAt yOU wErE A GENIUS.
(Smile) These are hard words.
I MEANt It AS A COMPLIMENt tO A
BrOAD, OUtStANDING CrEAtIvIty.
Thank you. I know where I see myself in five, ten years, and
it seems I’m on the right track. Many say that GombaË is
everywhere, and I reply: Gentlemen, we all share the same
space. It is important that in the music I’m interested in,
everything from Indian classical music to Bach and cabaret,
there are many things to try, to learn. Some people insist on
playing one instrument their entire lives and master it − well,
it’s nice to achieve perfection, but my process is different. I’m
interested in theatre music: in the play ‘Patty Diphuso’ we
started being aware that we were not actors, but that we
knew how to play music, so we decided to sing in falsetto. I
can’t stand actors putting on an act: you just have to get in
the role and give one hundred per cent.
DOES tHIS KIND OF LEAP EvEr HAPPEN
tO yOU?
It cannot go any other way. There were people at the fiftieth
show who’d already seen it eight times, which is incredible,
and one of my friends said to me she didn’t feel me, that
there was no soul − but she was the one who was having a
really bad day; I know one needs to prepare for a concert or
a show.
tHE SKELEtON OPErA ‘AttrACtION
POLyPHEMUS’, IN wHICH yOU ACt AND
PLAy MUSIC, IS EXCELLENt, IS FOr
CHILDrEN AS wELL AS ADULtS.
The parents shouldn’t see it, because it’s a fairytale; it’s the
same as if you came to ‘Confession of a Porno Diva’ and
expected cooking recipes to be discussed. If parents bring
their children to see the skeleton opera, they have to explain
to them that different traditions exist in the world, that this
originates from Mexican culture, where people live with the
dead and their souls, and that they have to be skeletons. And
it’s also an adult story, because relationships are presented,
and these fine life structures, good and evil.
AND MUCH MOrE!
If the performance makes you think, that’s great. When it
happens to me, I’m insanely happy. In this performance,
all is understood in the sense of what it tries to tell us, but
everyone understands it in their own way − like in the new
performance at Mestno gledališËe Ljubljansko entitled ‘What
Do We Talk About When We Talk About Love’: do we talk
about love, the relationship between two people, the man
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and the woman; every one of us has their own story, and in
every story someone will identify with it. That’s how it is in the
theatre or at a concert.
wHAt IS LOvE?
It can be an Indian summer, a walk - love can be anything.
For me it is music and vice versa. Music is a joy, not just mere
music, but also some kind of joy, love for what I do. A happy
bank employee represents for me pure music and love at the
same time. There are infinite types of love, as well as ways.
“There’s the way how you park the car with its side a bit
exposed, how you arrange your hair, how you’re not listening
to me when I talk about your life; a way to salt the eggs, the
way you are tired, how you show that you don’t like my way.”
This is a song from the performance. Yes, everyone has their
own way of seeing things, a view of the world, which is why
for me everything that possesses good energy and joy towards
life and work is pure music.
I think it’s a shame that there are so many good musicians
in the world who remain in their garages and practice, and
I don’t hear them, that they don’t share that with me, with
the world. The essence of what you do is that someone else
benefits from it. This needs to be shared.
FOr wHAt PUrPOSE?
Otherwise you’d explode. The so-called primitive nations are
accompanied by music at all times, as well as by dancing,
performances; such is their tradition. Nowadays, we have
theatres and clubs − well, there are only a few where music
can be played, which is too bad. Of course, I feel the need
to express myself, but if I don’t do that for a week or two
and do some other things, which I am otherwise not able to
do because of lack of time, that’s fine. Acting requires much
effort: actors with six ongoing performances are sure to lose
their minds - either you live a completely healthy life, or you’re
an alcoholic, or an addict, or you go mad. Work is a valve, but
too much work is not good for you and too little is even worse:
the art is finding the right balance; when you have something
to say, when you have certain feelings and the people believe
you, just be, say. If you bluff in art, you’re done. It’s hard to be
independent, but if you’re not, it just doesn’t work. It takes a
lot of humour to realise everything you want.
yOU’rE NOt AN ArtISt wHO HAS tO
SUFFEr IN OrDEr tO CrEAtE. yOU’rE
SOMEONE wHO FOLLOwS HIMSELF, SO
ACtUALLy tHE PAtHS OPEN tO yOU By
tHEMSELvES.
I was searching for myself and it was great, because since
then, I’ve been looking at the world, myself and everything
that surrounds us in a different way. And that’s just great. At
a good concert or show, you get to see what people are like:
when someone lies on the ground and you don’t know if they
are drunk or unconscious, and the people are literally walking
over the bodies. We can learn a lot from this, we learn new
things at every step we take. Everything has a purpose: I believe
in certain coincidences, some sort of a stage, strings…