Beat a Go Go

Nino de Gleria, soundcheck at Cerkno, May 2003 (photo: Bogo Pečnikar)

How long have you and Aleš known each other?

I’ve known Aleš from birth. We were living in the same house. We were neighbors. We were together all the time as kids. We had a puppet-show together. Then after Aleš moved, he began to learn violin in music school. My first wish was to play cello. I asked my father to enter me in music school. But something had happened a few days before my request. At that time I was very young, six or seven years old. I went with one of my friends from home and we got lost. We were walking at the river Gradascica, very far away from home. Our parents went completely crazy, worrying about where we were. At last they found us in another quarter of Ljubljana. Then when I asked my father about going to music school and playing the cello, he said, “If you are independent like this” - he was thinking about my vagabonding – “you can go and enter yourself in music school alone.” This was a kind of pedagogical step. Of course I didn't go to school alone.