The Story of Narasirato Bamboo Music from The Solomon IslandsNarasirato. Say it out loud: Na-ra-si-ra-to. Then picture a kind of bamboo orchestra, hammering polyrhythms from log drums and ‘stomping tubes’ and blasting away on giant pan pipes; a sound the London Evening Standard called ‘punchy, distinctive and full of energy’, that the Observer newspaper deemed ‘funky and bluesy, with a reggae pulse and tracks that rock out’. Abandon all stereotypes: anyone
