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Taiko to Tabla

Joji Hirota (Japan) & Peter Lockett (UK)

Taiko to Tabla - a journey through the world of percussion which will stay with you for a lifetime.

"Hirota and Lockett, an exceptionally talented and skilled duo, held the 'Stute crowd enthralled with their complete mastery of a multitude of percussion and other instruments."

"If anyone imagined they would get bored with the sound of just drums for a whole performance then Peter Lockett and Joji Hirota dispelled any doubts in the first number."

"A truly global mix of percussive brilliance.  Something memorable guaranteed."

Formed to take part in the inaugural Rhythm Sticks Festival in London in 1995 this duo (occasionally expanded with other players) has become one of the most exciting percussion-based outfits in the UK, and Benelux.

They use more than 40 different percussive instruments during the show that ranges from the sensitive playing of the Arabic tom-tom, and African thumb-piano, to the battering excitement of Taiko drumming and Far Eastern gongs.  Complex rhythms abound as the tempo moves from gentle pieces to thunderous, grand monumental crescendos.