It is a personal journey, it is not the fact that other people have started to do it. It took a long time to get this album out. Now it is going to look like we are copying them. But we have been doing it for a long time. I guess it is just the 'time' for that kind of music.
People are ready for something a little different, maybe.
The aboriginal artists had to create that place by simply being bold enough to release the material and get out there with labels shopping it to radio. But it does seem to be a harmonic for the times. Well, and there have been things like Dances With Wolves which really brought an awareness to the dominant society, and created a craving within that society for something alternative-wise. You know, people like Paul Simon started it off with that great album, Graceland . And the kind of influence he had.