(2007-10-02) Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead) "Global Drum Project" on Shout Factory

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:31 pm

>> Mickey Hart and Zakir Hussain Reunite for Global Drum Project

Press release
Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations

Over three decades as the innovative percussion engine of the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart's ear for global sounds brought numerous unpredictable guests to the Dead's stage performances.

Hart's 1991 release Planet Drum was the natural outgrowth of this adventure, showcasing his gift as a supreme catalyst in convening the world's finest percussion talent for a dazzling collaboration - including Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, who is an international phenomenon in his own right. Zakir began his career as a child prodigy has gone on to win many awards, founded his own record label Moment! Records, and starred in two documentaries, 2003's The Speaking Hand: Zakir Hussain and the Art of the Indian Drum and 1998's Zakir and His Friends. Planet Drum was recorded in Hart's Sonoma County home and studio, with the Dead's legendary crew turning virtually every room in the house into a work zone for each musician. The album won the first-ever Grammy® for Best World Music Album, spent an unprecedented 26 weeks at #1 on the Billboard chart, and sells as a perennial favorite to this day.

15 years have passed, and the friendship and musical partnership of Hart and Hussain, which began in the early '70s with their world fusion experiment Diga Rhythm Band, has continued to flourish. Their 2006 Planet Drum reunion tour was immensely well-received and germinated the idea to revisit Planet Drum.

Hence, this fresh collaboration of tranced-out grooves, elegant electronic programming and hypnotic tuned percussion that is the Global Drum Project. Masterfully produced by Hart and Hussain, the Global Drum Project once again enlists the great partnership of Sikuru Adepoju (Nigerian talking drum) and Giovanni Hidalgo (congas), as well as Taufiq Qureshi (brother to Zakir Hussain) on percussion and vocals, Niladari Kumar on sitar, Dilshad Khan on sarangi, and sampled vocals by the late, great Olatunji. Global Drum Project will be in stores October 2nd, 2007. The ensemble will again tour the U.S. this fall in support of the release. <<

Audio samples and a complete tracklisting are available at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VALY7C/?tag=imwan-20

Federico · 12 Jul 2006

I am very excited about this.

For my money Mickey has done the most interesting and consistently rewarding projects of all the ex-Dead.

(2007-10-02) Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead) "Global Drum Project" on Shout Factory

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