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Dodo Jam

There was this day, in the fall of 2007, when one of the Vurdalak members, lets say, Humber, walked around the market square in front of the church. The marked square used to be an old cemetery but had been redesigned and restyled to fit earl 1900’s demands en needs. So it became a market place. Now Humber isn’t a real diehard Christian or anything, and the fact that he was walking next to, of all buildings, a church had more to do with the church being positioned almost immediately next to the front door of his home, than it had to do with any strong religious beliefs. Yet, even though the place didn’t have any great personal symbolic meaning, a question of almost Metafysical scale made it’s way in side of his head.
This question was: “What does a Dodo sound like?”

The first step to achieve an answer to this question was made by rephrasing it: “can you put all that is Dodo and that makes a Dodo, in fact, a Dodo (say, the entire Dodoness) into a recognisable tune?”
Even though this question is a bit long and hard to understand, there is obviously one simple way of finding out: just try very hard.
Ever since this moment the first basis for the Dodo Song had been laid, somewhere in the fall of 2007, The Dodo Song remained a loose series of tunes and melodies instead of becoming a fully composed song, completely in synch with the idea that the “Dodoness” is yet to be musically identified.

Now every time Vurdalak will performs this song, it will be played as an improvisation based on the original Dodo tunes combined with “the thing in the moment” we call improvisation. And in the last few years, Vurdalak has jammed to these dodo tunes with a lot of different musicians from various music styles of which some recordings can be found on this website or other places on the World Wide Web.
And the fun thing is that, because of the mouldable structure of the song, not one of these recordings sounds the same.

Even though the Dodoness is yet to be fully caught and achieved within notes and harmonies, the Dodosong has had a time span running from the beginning of Vurdalak, all the way to the present day.