Sometimes, someone comes up to you and tells you to "impress me". What the heck is that? A music system shows subtlety, emotion and feeling. But when dynamics is called for - drums are usually the answer.
The most impressive drumming might be Japanese Taiko performance - originally festival folk-art elevated to an art form. The most impressive band to perform is Ondekoza - members whom reside and play together in a lifestyle where the principle is "running and drumming as one". In their US debut, the group ran the Boston Marathon, ran up on stage and performed their set. When they did their concert tour of China, they ran from city to city - running the 12,500 km on foot.
This album was recorded and pressed by JVC. Extremely rare, but an excellent record of their work.
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ONDEKOZA to me are the BEST Taiko drummers I've ever heard...
In the past week, this has become available in the US and elsewhere in the world;
https://www.discogs.com/Ondekoza-Collection/release/9437233
Elusive Disc in the US has the set, don't know of any others. Various offers are out there for Japan/APAC sellers as well as in Europe.
It's a set of 6 SACD remasters of some of Ondekoza's finest works!!!
The XRCD (various levels), K2HD and HQCD releases of some of the albums that are available are few and far between, rare to obtain and sound great but having listened through all 6 SACDs in this set in the last few days I am very impressed and happy that I grabbed them.