• Rocks 'n' roll: Yume-Goto perform at a gig in Shibuya in 2010. Bassist Jeff Curry, drummer Masashi Tomikawa and shakuhachi player Hirofumi Miyazaki (trumpet player Neil Stalnaker is not pictured) use traditional instruments in a jazz setting, but one of Yume-Goto's more interesting elements is its use of volcanic rocks for percussion.
    Rocks 'n' roll: Yume-Goto perform at a gig in Shibuya in 2010. Bassist Jeff Curry, drummer Masashi Tomikawa and shakuhachi player Hirofumi Miyazaki (trumpet player Neil Stalnaker is not pictured) use traditional instruments in a jazz setting, but one of Yume-Goto's more interesting elements is its use of volcanic rocks for percussion.
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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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