Growing up in a village in Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku, Masashi Tomikawa never thought twice about the geology of his surroundings. The volcanic rocks that surrounded him, however, are now part of the drummer’s arsenal of sound.
“In my village the rocks have been used since ancient times,” Tomikawa says. “But people outside of Shikoku have often never heard of them.”
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