Monday, March 12, 2007

Get your taiko on

I'm a sucker for percussion from anywhere in the world. You just can't beat the child-like joy of beating the crap out of something and the superior practitioners can draw out the underlying rationality at work, as well. See, like soccer, its important to play the drum and not let the drum play you--sorry to drop a little koan on ya, but when you hear a bad drummer only then can you appreciate what it is a good drummer does. The Japanese drum technique, Taiko, is a big loopy style that relies on that deep bass sound. Here's a dude that's clearly having fun with it.

Sosuke Komori with a Taiko-style improv

2 comments:

Eric said...

Kodo is the name of a band.
Their style of music is called taiko, which means "big drums" in Japanese.

Bully Magnet said...

Good call, Eric. My bad. I'm not sure where I transposed the two.