I think tumors are a great visual reference point that works.
Nothing wrong with most tumors

Tumors do get in the way

Even the good ones are often cut off just to make life less difficult

However with fusion music the more tumors the merrier which is fine, valid and real....

However Instead of their own art form these folks take another inhabit its body and put out tumors of what are called fusions that cover up the original.

So in effect they are trying to scrape by, gain access when they barely resemble what they claim to be the nature of the host body.

In other genres musicians scrapped the concept of being the host body and after a point recognized that they were something new.

Jazz for example honestly budded off from both Negro Spiritual, folk, and gospel.

Hey we are no longer a shadow of a past form our forms we are our own organizm.

So music covered with tumors is neither here or there.

I dont mean to put them down.

The two things I suggest are:

1. Dont take over the available venues and outlets such that other genres (old folk if you will or even 6os folk revival) are pushed out.

2. When you are more tumor than original inspiration (host tradition)
admit it and find a distinct name for yourself, bin in the record store and festival type.

Just remove the tumors weigh them and compare with the weight of whatever traditional host remains. Should be easy and tumors always grow back.

Then also one could simply give the tumors a hair cut for a track or several so that the host tradition stands out more.

Should be fun.

No I was not implying cancer. (anyone dealing with dogs knows the types I am talking about)
However someone could pick on that and run too.

Conrad Bladey
Ethno-peasant