Since they wowed audiences at the renowned Fringe Festival in Edinburgh in 2004, the musicians have also been regarded as ambassadors and masters of the Japanese art of drumming in Europe.
In their powerful stage shows, they create a fascinating and captivating link between the millennia-old tradition of original taiko drumming, which requires full physical exertion, and modern musical elements. At the heart of this mixture of musical meditation and Japanese martial arts are the large traditional taiko drums that the samurai used to beat before battle to put the warriors into a trance-like frenzy. Powerful, sometimes breathtakingly fast and loud, then again poetic and calm, like the calm before the storm - Drum Tao creates an intoxicating maelstrom that is hard to escape as a spectator.