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alexei berteig > fashioner films > music > spiritual refugee 1

Liner Notes: I was attending film school in Toronto, and I started using my own music in my films. In the winter of 1997 a producer sent me to the Congo in Africa to get some footage of a music project that was in development there. Somehow, I ended up in a camp of Burundi and Rwandan refugees who had been displaced by the Tutsi and Hutu massacres the previous year. What struck me most is that here were people who had been utterly stripped of the basic indicators of their identity; their families were lost, they had no personal belongings, no personal records or identification, and no home. They were in this position because the leaders of their countries had, at some level, betrayed their trust. I felt the same thing had happened in North America, except that instead of losing our physical homes, it was as though our spiritual leaders had betrayed our trust, leaving us spiritually homeless and without any spiritual identity; we were, in North America, spiritual refugees. I made a film about it and scored it with this mediocre song. I still like the concept enough that I did all my music under that title.

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Crisis and Victory.mp3
Who Am I.mp3
Dialtone.mp3
So Many Destinations.mp3
Echoflex.mp3
The Sacred Drum.mp3
Spiritual Refugee.mp3

rave
electronica/funk
electronica
dance
electronica
trance
electronica/funk

Liner Notes: I was attending film school in Toronto, and I started using my own music in my films. In the winter of 1997 a producer sent me to the Congo in Africa to get some footage of a music project that was in development there. Somehow, I ended up in a camp of Burundi and Rwandan refugees who had been displaced by the Tutsi and Hutu massacres the previous year. What struck me most is that here were people who had been utterly stripped of the basic indicators of their identity; their families were lost, they had no personal belongings, no personal records or identification, and no home. They were in this position because the leaders of their countries had, at some level, betrayed their trust. I felt the same thing had happened in North America, except that instead of losing our physical homes, it was as though our spiritual leaders had betrayed our trust, leaving us spiritually homeless and without any spiritual identity; we were, in North America, spiritual refugees. I made a film about it and scored it with this mediocre song. I still like the concept enough that I did all my music under that title.