Megadrums Promotion Video

All About Megadrums

I think, first of all, it's the abundance
of incredible drums.

It's very difficult to combine a taiko
and a tabla and a frame drum.

All these drums are used in a way
that they sound together.

It's the players.

It's also the concept that I compose
a frame for the people

where they can just let go,
improvise and show their art.

When I was a member of the Kudo drummers,
Mr. Reinhard Flatischler

came to our concert :
" I need these guys ! "

With musicians or masters
from this caliber,

basically, there's never going
to be a problem.

We are persons

or music-making people who want
to go further in just the musical form.

It's not percussion. It's music.

It's real music being played
and with no ego.

Actually, it is a very high
spiritual experience

for us musicians and for the people also.

Megadrums is perfect breeding ground
for those kinds of ideas.

In a way for me, to be
invited to join Megadrums is really

fulfilling some kind of destiny.

Melodies are very much involved.
It sounds very melodic.

Yet, in the center of the musical creation
is rhythm.

Nobody has to impress the others.

Because of that, it is much easier
to play together.

We all respect each other

and we enjoy each other.

You have very high quality music
that can be focused on a communication

with the audience but also for
them to see that drumming is not only

just an entertainment medium
but also a medium for

connecting with a healing energy.

We have the Shaman tradition
represented by Airto Moreira

and we have the Middle Eastern hand
drumming tradition, Indian tradition,

the Taiko drumming tradition
and these are all traditions

which have existed for thousands
of years and they are all

being represented and they have all
found that they all have a common ground.