I came to Taiwan with very little musical equipment besides a soprano saxophone (turns out the instrument was probably made here – I’ve heard almost 90% of cheaper saxophones sold worldwide are manufactured in Taiwan). I did have some recordings I had made of my Duusman bandmate Jako Loots’ djembe playing. As soon as I got a computer (of course, Taiwan is also PC Paradise!) I started working with these djembe tracks and featured Jako’s playing on "Waiting For The Bus" from Made

In Taiwan. Jako’s performance of Soli, a traditional djembe song of the Maninka people of Guinea, served as the basis for this track. As is usual for me, I launched into it with no idea of the history of the original, and I guess it would have turned out differently had I known that the Soli dance is associated with circumcisions and exci- sions... I have to thanks Bilegt at Arslanstudios for setting me straight; the vocals are Mongolian and not some weird dialect of Chinese!