>>841just because they have "Genghis" in their name doesn't mean they're Mongoloid music.
okay I've listened to the part you're referring to and admittedly i kind of get what you're on about, but still… falls short of actual Mongoloid music IMOAt the end of the day, I'll say two things:
1) Being quarter Asian yourself, you seem to have taken Asian music as your baseline for ehh… let's say, musical exploration. Whereas I'm more grounded from a Western standpoint, even if I do reach out and listen to the music of other cultures.
2) We have our own areas of specialty. Through years of trawling the internet for reading material, your understanding of how physiology and psychology interconnect far surpasses my own - even now I am still learning about my own condition and hadn't realised, for example, a lot of the physiological implications of being on the autistic spectrum, which when explained both by yourself and this brilliant support worker I meet up with on a weekly basis, the pieces suddenly fall into place and it gradually makes more and more sense.
However, I was raised on (Western) Classical music. Everything from the Three Tenors to Vivaldi, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Grieg… my mum tried to get me into Mozart but ehh.
I remember watching a VHS copy of Pavarotti's Distant Harmony as a kid. A documentary on his visit to China, a meeting of cultures, and exploration of their respective musical traditions. It fascinated me. Not only did we already have CDs, but I began actively seeking out world music. Not bastardised Jazz fusion, but as genuine as it could get. Every new sound drew my attention.
If you've read Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, or even seen the film (I've only seen the film), it does a good job of conveying how it's protagonist reveled in every new smell, however repugnant. So it was with me. That's why I even gave time to try and listen to Gamelan, even if the novelty fairly quickly wore off and I'd failed to understand it.
I got formal training In the Cello (passed 3 graded exams, 2 with distinction, 1 with merit), dropped that because I was bored of it. Played the Trombone for a while in primary. Wasn't amazing at it. Played Tuba in secondary. I had ended up playing that because literally nobody else wanted to play it, so they were offering a bursary to get enough of us in to perform in the band so it was cheap as fuck. It was actually pretty fun, and my teacher wanted me to go straight into attempting grade 4. But I was pissed off with continually playing classical instruments, so I dropped that too.
By that point I had already picked up the didge, had learnt circular breathing and was alright. I'd have loved to continue, but later on having had my braces removed, trying to practice the authentic method stumped me.
In the meantime I had picked up the electric guitar. I wasn't amazing at it, but that was a lot down to the fact that I had an absolutely SHIT secondhand amp at home to practice on that hummed and fed back and amplified every clanging mistake I made for the whole house to hear, so I hated practicing it and eventually gave up (although I later became fascinated with electric guitar design to the most minute detail, the passive electronic wiring, the neck construction, all of that shit).
I picked up an open back banjo and attempted to learn clawhammer. It was going quite well until I got to the chapter in the method book on drop thumbing. Time and again I'd pick it up for a couple of weeks and try and get past that block to no avail.
My mum's always considered me musically gifted - it runs in the family. What separates me from my brother, who was an accomplished classical guitar player, is that he diligently practiced day in day out regardless of how shit the tunes he practiced sounded. Being the complete sperg I am, I'd get frustrated, get all hissy and effectively say "FUCK IT, there's an entire world of other music out there that practicing this damned instrument is keeping me from. I'm not getting the returns my perfectionist mindset demands, ONWARDS!".
You know, I hope I can get adequately good at the hurdy gurdy. I think I've got to the point where I have no other prospective instruments on my list… apart from bagpipes, of which I'm well aware are a more challenging instrument to play.
Regardless of how I've always fallen short on the actual practice of music, I have a keen ear for it. I don't think it'd be much of a stretch to say that I do so to a higher extent than yourself.