Kodō - Mondo Head FLAC download

Kodo’s new album, “Mondo Head” (on the Sony Classical label), produced by the former Grateful Dead drummer and world music enthusiast Mickey Hart, the Sado Islanders are showcasing their old-school taiko chops on the One Earth Tour. If you want to see Kodo in their pure, unadulterated element, this is a good chance.But if you want a taste of traditional taiko turned on its head, check out “Mondo Head.” Nominally, it’s a Kodo album, but in reality Hart’s vision drives the project — the latest with his Planet Drum retinue of global drummers, vocalists and guest artists. It’s a one-take affair that Hart described during a July visit to Tokyo as “Kodo drumming with other elements of the world to form yet a new kind of taiko; it honors the old tradition but this is how music grows and progresses.”