It began in 2010. The two musicians Tim Isfort and Jan Klare were working at the project first. Together with Xaver Augustin , the head of the Goethe Institut Yangon/Myanmar . As far as I understand another very important role was played by Daphne Wolff . Who came to Burma first in 2004 to learn about Burmese music as an music-ethnologist. In 2010 she was working for the Goethe Institute Yangon, organized and created collaborations between Burmese musicians and European musicians. That is how Tim Isfort and Jan Klare first met Thaung Htike . And that was also how Daphne and Thaung Htike met. Daphne is a very important linking role. She speaks Burmese, she knows the people and their music and she can translate during the process of rehearsing. Wich is quite important, otherwise sometimes there is no understanding in words and alas no chance to work at musical details. Tim Isfort (former festival manager of "Traumzeit" Duisburg, recently festival manager of the w
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