Taiko Meantime had the honour of performing on the soundtrack for Wes Anderson‘s 2018 dystopian animation, ‘Isle of Dogs‘.

Set in a future Japan, this quirky and beautiful feature-length animation about the plight of a group of exiled dogs features an award winning Taiko score by Alexandre Desplat.

The legendary film score arranger Conrad Pope conducted us, and we were joined by the great Kaoru Watanabe (ex-Kodo) and UK  taiko grandmaster Joji Hirota (with whom Mark played from 1994-2004), as well as Frank Ricotti and Paul Clarvis.

The film stars Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johansson and Harvey Keitel amongst other Hollywood heavyweights.