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Mickey Hart - Planet Drum (1991)

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Mickey Hart - Planet Drum (1991)

Mickey Hart - Planet Drum (1991)
FLAC & mp3 (320k/s) | 189 & 116 MB | scans | Rykodisc
Total time: 49:56 | Genre: world fusion, percussion


Planet Drum is the brainchild of Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, whose research into world drum styles has yielded some interesting and important recordings. On this one, he brings together artists from cultures as diverse as India, Brazil, and Nigeria. The idea was for everyone to simply get together, start playing, and see what would happen. What happened, predictably, was a wonderful learning and bonding experience for the drummers and a recording that is, overall, pretty boring for those who weren't a part of it. Some of the album's best moments feature singer Flora Purim ("Light Over Shadow," "Lost River"); another is an exciting program piece called "The Hunt." "Temple Caves," a fragile and lovely piece that defines more space than it fills, is another high point. But most of the album consists of repetitive, monochromatic jams that start out pleasant and lulling and quickly become merely annoying. Having the Indian percussionist "Vikku" Vinayakram play alongside Babatunde Olatunji may make for a heartwarming sociopolitical statement, but the resulting music doesn't really go anywhere or do anything. Recommended only to the most uncritical panculturalists. - by Rick Anderson, AMG

Tracks:
1. Udu Chant (Sikiru Adepoju/Mickey Hart/Zakir Hussain/Airto Moreira) 3:41
2. Island Groove (Sikiru Adepoju/Mickey Hart/Zakir Hussain/Airto Moreira/Babatunde Olatunji) 5:43
3. Light Over Shadow (Airto Moreira/Babatunde Olatunji/Flora Purim) 3:51
4. Dance Of The Hunter's Fire (Sikiru Adepoju/Airto Moreira/Babatunde Olatunji/Flora Purim/T.H. Vinayakram) 3:01
5. Jewe (You Are The One) (Babatunde Olatunji) 4:07
6. The Hunt (Sikiru Adepoju/Mickey Hart/Zakir Hussain/Babatunde Olatunji/T.H. Vinayakram) 3:45
7. Temple Caves (Sikiru Adepoju/Mickey Hart/Zakir Hussain/Babatunde Olatunji) 3:18
8. The Dancing Sorcerer (Zakir Hussain/Airto Moreira) 2:57
9. Bones (Mickey Hart/Zakir Hussain/Babatunde Olatunji/Flora Purim) 4:13
10. Lost River (Sikiru Adepoju/Mickey Hart/Zakir Hussain/Airto Moreira/Babatunde Olatunji/Flora Purim) 2:57
11. Evening Samba (Sikiru Adepoju/Mickey Hart/Zakir Hussain/Airto Moreira/Babatunde Olatunji/T.H. Vinayakram) 4:33
12. Iyanu (Surprises) (Babatunde Olatunji) 2:01
13. Mysterious Island (Mickey Hart/Airto Moreira/Flora Purim/Jeff Sterling) 5:44

Personnel:
Mickey Hart (Drums and Percussion, Vocals, Tambourine, Bones, Balafon, Guards) - 1,2,5-7,9-13
Sikiru Adepoju (Percussion, Bells) - 1,2,4,6,7,10,11
Zakir Hussain (Udu Drum, Indian Percussion, Balafon, Bells) - 1,2,6-11
Airto Moreira (Percussion, Whistles, Flute, Vocals, Shakers) - 1-4,6-8,10-13
Babatunde Olatunji (African Percussion, Congas, Vocals) - 2-7,9-12
Flora Purim (Vocals and Shaker) - 3-5,9,10,12,13
Frank Colon (Shekere) - 4
Giovanni Hidalgo (Shekere and Congas, Bata) - 4,9
Caryl Ohrbach (Shaker) - 4
T.H. Vinayakram (Ghatam) - 4,6,11
Bruce Langhorne (Vocals) - 5
Gordy Ryan (Vocals) - 5
Molonga Casquelord (Vocals) - 12
Jeff Sterling (Udu Drums) - 13

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