Music
The "Muslim Madonna" speaks out and Per Contra Correspondent Chris Nickson writes that Taiko drumming has a great home - in the U.K.
Different Drums, Different Continents? by Chris Nickson - Click Here
"Taiko, the Japanese art of drumming, is like turbocharged percussion. Or, perhaps, martial arts with skins and sticks. Or maybe a meditation in sound. However you try to define it, Taiko is a mix of pounding passion and delicate grace, where the way the instruments are played, and the spaces between beats, are every bit as important as the music itself."