In Maledives, Škoļina performed several songs, starting with "Pata Pata", originally recorded by Miriam Makeba (together with Isabelle Kessel and Liza-Marie Viebrock).
He was also very active at this time as a member of legendary world music trailblazers 3 Mustaphas 3, as well as enjoying a varied diet of gigs with Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Congolese soukous band Taxi Pata Pata and Ashley Slater's Microgroove.