Tatsuya Nakatani, who plays Deviant Libation in Tampa, Florida on April 3, 2025. Credit: Photo via nakatani/Facebook

Ybor Heights brewery and distillery Deviant Libation has always been a place to let your freak flag fly, and the venue’s concert calendar gets really weird when it welcomes Tatsuya Nakatani.

The New-England-by-way-of-Japan percussionist has been somewhat of a fixture in the Bay area music scene, regularly bringing avant-garde jazzisms to shows booked by David Manson’s EMIT adventurous music series or St. Pete’s long-shuttered Warehouse Arts District venue Venture Compound.

Nakatani, who’s worked in the indie-rock field with bands like Akron/Family is known for his hand-crafted rig, which includes a drum kit, cymbals, bowed gongs, singing bowls, metal objects, bells, and various sticks and bows.

Tickets to see Tatsuya Nakatani play Deviant Libation in Tampa on Thursday, April 3 are $10 at the door.