Pure power meets mind-blowing musical skill when drumming troupe Kodo takes to the stage — and it's doing exactly that in ...

In the Japanese language, the word " Kodo" has two meanings. It can mean "heartbeat" — the fundamental source of all rhythm. However, the characters used for the group's name have a different meaning, ...

The spectacle of a muscular Japanese man clad only in a loincloth and beating a 900-pound drum is hard to forget. However, that is not the chief memory you will carry from your evening with the Kodo ...

The drum is often considered the first human instrument. But in the hands of the performers of Kodo, drums are not primitive but powerful — emotionally expressive and even spiritual. The large ...

Members of the Japanese drumming group Kodo had a rough start to their 30th anniversary One Earth Tour through North America. The ensemble made it to the States safely, but its drums weren't so lucky.

Attending a Kodo concert is more than an auditory and visual experience. It's also a tactile experience, except you're the one being touched -- lightly tapped and sometimes rhthymically pounded by ...

In its latest creation, Warabe, famed taiko troupe Kodo explores the most basic and authentic of musical impulses, the "desire to play the drums with the simple heart of a child." The living bearers ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — An internationally-renowned taiko performing arts ensemble is drumming its way from Japan to Bloomington soon. On Feb. 21, Kodo is bringing heart, history and high-energy taiko ...

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