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Curious to thoughts on how you are going to approach this. Are you thinking that you should stick to a very traditional ensemble? Or do you think it should be be modernized a bit with huge hits and drums that might not necessarily be that authentic, ie hyped up Storm Drum 2 options or combining Japanese and African drums for impact??

I'm all about this listing for the next week and am curious to see how others are thinking about this.

Bryan, my thinking is that the references are more the kind of feel they're after rather than it being region specific ie. they want big rhythm sections like an African war party or a Kodo troupe. I'm interpreting "bare rhythms" and "just drums" as avoiding sound design so I'm not using any "produced" sounding big hits. I've gone modern, non-traditional in that I'm not making them 'region authentic' ie. happy to mix Mongolian frame drums with African djun djuns, European toms and taikos. FWIW.

Good Rob. I'm leaning towards doing the same thing myself.