“I discovered that the idea of music I’d had in mind, of going to shows and seeing people on stage playing music for an hour or two – it was just very wrong. If you go back to ancient times, music was never on stage, there was never that divide between performer and spectator. In a lot of the cultures I went and researched, that’s still the case, and I became obsessed with the purity of that idea; exploring a a culture through music, particularly these cultures where music was all about community. I made the films in the same spirit – very improvised, very DIY, just my little camera and my backpack – but the focus was totally different.”