I started the mix of the first three chapters of „the book of the manafonistas“ one day ago. Again and again (in between searching and searching and searching the fitting texts and „interims“) I realized how great the idea is, regarding form and structure. And how time-consuming. Time is not on your side here. Well, it´s fun mixed with the myth of Sysyphos. It will definitely not work without anyone offering me 125.000,00 Dollars. Seeing good ideas fail along the way, is part of life. So, for my part, I just want to inform you that Joey can send the raw material to all of you – and then you know. Or try it for yourself. It might take ten days of work (six hours every day) to get it into shape and kind of class. Honestly, I can only warn anyone to follow this „schnapsidee“ – you can see this whole process as a study of illusions at work. Seeing apparitions vanish. I think, I still prefer detective work. One of my jobs at hand is to find out how to make the best cider of La Bretagne (nearly no commercial distribution at all, simply rumours, and small quantums of treasure hunt romanticism) find its way to my cellar. The spare leads make it necessary to travel to Paris, and, later on, to a small village near Brest, to a farm with wild dogs and high tech-security systems. (I`m so sorry Gregs can`t join me on that trip – the dogs would kill him). If I get that going – far from easy – every manafonista will be invited for the biggest apple cider party ever in this hillside region of Germany.
P.S. We´re enthusiasts, storytellers, music lovers and much more. Surprise is a constant element of reading this blog, isn´t it? So here another announcement that may surprise longtime readers or listeners of my radio shows. I will not be at the Punkt Festival this year. Ten times in a row I`ve been there. It was such a long period of time in which I saw human relationships and musical ideas grow, thanks to the commitment of the artistic directors Jan Bang and Erik Honore – and the creative and supporting input of so many people around. Kristiansand has become a musical power spot in all those years, and I can highly recommend anyone to go there. This year I simply had to make a decision between two options. A win-win. Now, funny as some of these lines may appear, they do definitely have a serious sub-text: making decisions. Breaking patterns.