yeah!
great find…i hadn’t even seen that article but connected some dots
i had been planning this tape around the time boba reappeared on the mandalorian series and somehow started reading about origins of gaffi stick prop design
it shocked me to realize they pretty much lifted fijian culture directly into the films
then when i found out totokia were carved to resemble a natural fruit something in my head clicked and i knew how i wanted the collection to fit together
totokia (on this album) is meant to represent the corruption of a naturally harmless thing of beauty
pandanus was supposed to be simple and i thought about excluding drums actually, but instead tried to evoke the pattern repetition in the plant itself
gaderffii kinda explores the artifice employed by those who copy others, the emptiness of sci fi and the fact that we know so little about fictional Tusken culture (do they even call themselves that??)…the songs imgaine what their music may sound like
