 I 've always been involved in ethnic music , though I thought the way a lot of people have been using ethnic music was a little superficial . Sometimes it works , like the Brian Eno stuff , it worked the first time , but for me what was more interesting was not making a particular statement about recording in Africa or in China , but taking some sounds and having exactly the same attitude as when you were in front of a Moog 55 or a modular system , replacing the oscillators with a bank of actors or people , treating them through the Fairlight or the EMS synth , and establishing an orchestration using only voices . 
