I really was extremely puzzled to begin with. I mean, why are we are doing this, what`s it all for, everybody was being pushed to their physical extreme, especially on the third day. The second day, when everybody went up to this peak, nobody understood that really at all. Well, I understood that kind of a concept, the idea to take the Tonga to the peak, and then there was this Internet-connection... I can see some meaning there. But for the Tonga themselves this would not be particularly meaningful. And then the third day with this really strenuous track which was seven and a half hours and everybody was complaining. But of course, you cannot change the mountains, the mountains are there, and there are long ways and it`s hard. But I think in the end everybody was enthusiastic about meeting other people in the mountains, there was definitely a sense of connection. That was one of the aims I thought. Instead of seeking people on the stage in Vienna and everybody goes back into the dressing room and then goes home. There was a strong sense of connection between some members of the group and some members who up there were just holidaying or came along for the experience. And since coming back down again, a number of people said, how wonderful it was. People seem to be quite touched. But next time I`ll take the highway.

... The Tonga had no problems. Margret was singing at the top of her voice all the way down, even on the third day, when everybody was complaining. They were complaining at the tops of their voices continuously and vociferously througout the whole time.

In the last two days I would say, that the whole project was valid especially the last two days, there was definitly the sense of togetherness, which you often find with these mountain climbing expeditions. People who are in the mountains, and everybody greets each other, everybody is much more friendly, this is not urban country where everybody walks down the street and ignores 99.97426 percent of the people, that you go past. Everybody greets, everybody is friendly, and that`s a good atmosphere to introduce people from Africa to us....

Keith Goddard, weißer Komponist aus Zimbabwe, beschäftigt sich schon seit Jahren mit Ngoma Buntibe Tonkunst