These gongs provided the people of the forest with a percussive telegraph system. Many central and western African cultures possess a sophisticated communication system consisting of hollowed out giant logs known as slit gongs. These signature risings and fallings communicate a narrative that is often answered by a vocal incantation. This is what makes this drum "talk." When squeezed the sounding of the membranes rises and falls, resembling a vocal sing song effect. The dun dun is the most portable type of "talking drum." This hourglass-shaped two-headed drum, whose twin heads are lashed together by thongs of gut or leather, is played by increasing or decreasing the tension on these thongs. There are many ways of signaling or "talking" using drums. The tracks featured here are examples of the ingenious ways that we use drums and percussion of all kinds to manipulate and experience these rhythms to communicate, play, work, as well as express cultural connections to death, war, and spirituality. There are three fundamental rhythms that each of us experiences: the personal rhythm of the human body, the larger social rhythm of the family, tribe or nation, and the enveloping cosmic rhythms of the planets and the universe.
Rhythm is anything that repeats itself in time: the moon cycling around the earth, sap rising in the spring, the pulsing arteries of the body. One of the few things we know about our universe is that everything in it is vibrating, is in motion, and has a rhythm.
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