Apart from the temperaturesrecently hitting 116 funny Fahrenheit or nearly 47 sensible Celcius, we were altogether differently hot tonight.

I’m all excited about tomorrow but I’m still sensing I have to sell the song. There is some justification that is is not ‘taiko’ – not Japanese. The Rhythm of the Heat is special to me because its sound palette just oozes taiko and the sentiments of the song fit perfectly with playing taiko in [...]

So we had a great practice this evening, but I’m excited because a bee that’s been buzzing in my bonnet for many, many months is coming to fruition. On Friday some of us will get together to work on a version of Peter Gabriel’s Rhythm of the Heat for Taiko instruments. Gong! Triplets over duples! [...]