Riding the roads of Taiwan, I often encounter funeral processions. It will be good to learn more about Taiwanese funeral traditions, because they’re obviously very different than in the US. One thing I see regularly involves a truck with people playing drums and gongs. Since I only hear them in passing, I don’t know if there’s a standard set of patterns/’songs’ that they play or not, but so far, most of what I’ve heard sounds cool, but pretty much the same and not too special to my ear. But the other day, there was a funeral drum/gong truck I heard that had something that always catches my ear, no matter the kind of music - it gets called different things, groove, pocket and even, at times FUNK. If I hadn’t been on a divided road going the opposite direction, I would have been hard at work chasing this truck to hear more. Sadly that wasn’t possible, but the snippet I heard was enough to make me imagine the conversation before they started to play went something like this....(but probably in Taiwanese, of course)
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