Tribalman

Tribalman is a character in The Incomprehensible Saxophone

Musical Talent:
He's got the grooves, he's got the moves, he's got the beats and does the feats. A singing voice said to be given to him by the gods and the ability to dance better than anyone in his village earned him widespread fame and recognition, at least within his tribe. His flute music has been known to make women become pregnant with his children just from hearing it.

Description:
He's tall, tan, and handsome, and also totally ripped. He doesn't have many articles of clothing, but wears a leather loincloth that never seems to flap up and has similarly-made leather bracelets around his wrists that are padded with fur. His face is covered by a large, ornate tribal jungle mask. The mouth closes to an elongated cone, as if in an exaggerated whistle, and the eye holes have red warpaint underneath them and are topped off by thick eyebrows. He carries a wooden flute that fits perfectly into his mask's mouth hole.

Biography:
Tribalman's origin is unknown. According to the members of the tribe he simply appeared in their midst one day, the sound of trumpets announcing his arrival as the avatar of the local musical deity, whose name is not pronounceable in any language, much less that of the natives'. Tribalman himself offered no input on this, but since he has never offered input on anything that didn't take the form of music or interpretive dance, this might not mean as much as it seems.

At any rate, Tribalman spent many happy years being worshiped, playing village-wide concerts, and making women pregnant through the power of music before he was abducted to join this battle. In all that time, he never spoke a word that wasn't part of a song sung in the natives' own incomprehensible language.