Mumbai

"He told me to forget my notes. You can’t go around foreign countries pretending to understand what you see, especially when you come from the west. What about a nice love story? We Indians, he said, we like a good love story. He went on: especially here in Bombay." This is a story set in India. But much more it is the story of a young man travelling into his own naïve ideas and emerging with eyes wide open -- and a strange obsession for telling stories. This work uses field recordings made throughout Maharashtra in 2011-2. The recordings were made in streets, temples and quadrangles and on public transport. Music was recorded with the knowledge of performers. I have no way of tracking them down, but I would like to give a hearty thanks to everyone whose music is included in this production.