Coping Mechanisms

Si Schroeder is a six-foot hairy male biped in his early thirties who makes 'music'. This 'music' generally sounds like classic songs in the Simon&Garfunkel vein mixed with an old recording of a drunken Slovenian orchestra playing backwards through an AC-15. There's a little bit of Africa in there too. And, somewhere within this melange, Si sighs in a soft, whispered voice of love, mental illness, international terrorism, and the problems he has with his homeland. The reasons for this are varied; He loves archive recordings of ethnic, folk, trad, jazz and classical music - the older, the better. He also loves sixties pop music and psychedelia. Some electronica and instrumental hip-hop also gets through his radar. And he also has his own thing to say about where we all came from - and where we're going: which, in Si's case, is somewhere pretty special...