| Influences |
music:
John Lee Hooker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, Brian Eno, Talkingheads with Eno, Adrian Belew, King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Trilok Gurtu, Portishead, Tricky, Earthling, J Dilla, Bone Thugs'n Harmony, Outkast, The Roots, Him (not the the rockband), Natasha Atlas, Nusrath Fateh Ali Khan, Patti Smith, Velvet Underground, Laurie Anderson, Bill Laswell, Sussan Deyhim, Dub Syndicate, Massive Attack not the stuff after Mezzanine, some Zappa, Captain Beefheart, David Bowie, Robert Wyatt, The Residents, Sainkho, Prince, Meshell Ndegeocello, Sun Ra, Gil Evans, Flesh Orchestra, Led Zep, The Rolling Stones, Nirvana, Simon & Garfunkel, Roxy Music, Björk, Lee Scratch Perry, Bob Marley, White Noise, Magma, The Fugees, Godley & Creme, Jah Wobble, Tom Waits, Jerry Harrison, Flanger, Joni Mitchell, Pink Floyd, Cream, ELP, Tackhead, Little Axe, Muddy Waters, The Doors, Eric B. & Rakim, Aretha Franklin, Shakti, Youssou N'Dour, Kodo, Ligeti, and many more...
movies:
Crossroads, the Blues Brothers, Star Wars the "early" stuff not produced in the Computer, Back to the Future, Stanley Kubrick especially Clockwork Orange and 2001:Space Odyssey, Ingmar Bergmann, early Bond movies, some Monty Python, Mars Attacks Tim Burton stuff in general, most movies with Johnny Depp, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese especially the Godfather and the really brilliant "The Blues" Collection
books:
Miles Davis bio, Alice in Wonderland, I Ging, The Baghavad Gita, Inayat Khan, The Ambient Century, Tao Te King, Oceans of Sound, Lucid Dreaming, Nada Brahma, stuff about Architecture especially when there's a lot of pictures in it, atlas books, Michael Ende, Art books...
“The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.” Alfred North Whitehead
"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any."
Gandhi, 1921
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