We are typing away furiously while on a WhatsApp voice call with Annette Philip when the vocalist tells us, "Forget about the keyboard for a bit." We have just asked her to explain what the term "body percussion" means when she says, "Clap your hands together. Now take one hand and slap it against your thigh. Then do the same with your chest and mouth. Do you see how different each sound is? So, if you think of your entire body as a percussion instrument, and use your hands as the drumsticks to identify parts that sound different, and then find various permutations and combinations to create music, that's what body percussion means. Does that make things simple?"

Deborah Pierre, Ayumi Ueda, Annette Philip and Giorgia Renosto