Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago: Drummer Muhtadi Thomas · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

Geoffrey Philp features Trinidad multi-media artist Elspeth Duncan as she talks about the experience of working on a Leda Serene documentary about Master drummer Muhtadi Thomas: “I asked him if he would open our filming session in the same way that he opens his drumming sessions, with his hands playing a prayer (for centering) on the drum skin. As we watched him do this, I felt drawn in…and there came a point where he and the drum merged, becoming one.”