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Around the World (for a song)
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Around the World (For A Song)
Travel around the World with this specially priced sampler. With over 60 minutes of music and rhythms from the likes of Babatunde Olatunji, Dzintars, The Kaluli People, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, and Mickey Hart, among others, it's the least expensive, most amazing journey you'll ever take. |
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Planet Drum
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Planet Drum
With this recording, which received the first ever "Grammy" for Best World Music Album in 1991, and was #1 on the Billboard World Music Chart for 26 weeks; Mickey Hart realizes his lifelong dream, to gather together the world's greatest drummers to make a recording based entirely on percussion. Planet Drum, the voice to Hart's book of the same name, represents a musical atlas of the World Beat. Hart and company extend the sonic territory traversed in his album At the Edge for a powerful and passionate journey.
Produced by: Mickey Hart
Co-Produced by: Sikiru Adepoju, Zakir Hussain, Airto Moreira, Babatunde Olatunji, Flora Purim, T.H. "Vikku" Vinayakram
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Songs of Amber
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Songs of Amber
"Imagine a drop of rain splitting still water, rippling out as a thousand voices, a garland of clear sound. The music is high, it's crystalline, and it makes me smile." -MH
Traditional and modern Latvian songs, performed by the country's leading female choir. The 76 voices of the Dzintars combine to create a sound of remarkable musicality and an otherworldly magnetism.
Produced by: Mickey Hart and Jerry Garcia
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Venu
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Venu
Hariprasad / Zakir Hussain
Classical flute music from India that is both devotional and romantic. The divine playing of Hariprasad with tabla master, Zakir Hussain, moves mountains of emotion.
Produced by: Zakir Hussain and Mickey Hart
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Freedom Chants from the Roof of the World
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Freedom Chants from the Roof of the World
The Gyuto Monks
"The Gyuto Monks allow us access into the basic realm of being. Their sound hows the depth of the human spirit's compassion. This is sacred music, music for prayer not entertainment. It is one of the most extraordinary examples of extended voice on this planet." -MH
The monks produce multiphonic chanting of incredible power and and depth, creating resonances both musical and spiritual. This recording also features a performance offering to The Monks by Mickey Hart, Kitaro, and Philip Glass. All proceeds from this recording benefit the Society of Gyuto Sacred Arts.
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Music to Be Born By
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Music to Be Born By
Mickey Hart
"The intent of this music is to facilitate and coordinate rhythmic breathing cycles, assisting the mother's concentration and focus before, during and after delivery." -MH
This music was composed specifically for the birth of Mickey's son Taro, and is intended to be used during the birthing process. Taro's fetal heartbeat was recorded on a Nagra portable field recorder, with a fetal pulse monitor attached to his mother's stomach. Back in the studio, the stereo tape was then transferred to a 16 - track recorder and overdubbed. Rhythms were improvised on a Brazollian Surdo> Next, Bobby Vega added bass harmonics, and finally Steve Douglas contributed subtle shadings on a wooden flute. |
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Apocalypse Now Sessions
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Apocalypse Now Sessions
Rhythm Devils Play River Music
"If you are paranoid, please don't listen to this music. It is dark, an orchestra of tuned percussion coming to grips with the image of war and death. The music reaches out and grabs you. It is sad...and cats hate it." -MH
Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzamann, Phil Lesh, and Airto Moreira explode the boundries of cinematic music. Expanded from the original album. |
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Dafos
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Dafos
Mickey Hart, Airto Moreira & Flora Purim
"This is the sound of another time and place. It is an ancient sound, the mythical land of Dafos. The ensemble floats on the patter of the delicate frame drums. The dance of the desert is timeless and calm." -MH |
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Drums of Passion: The Beat
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Drums of Passion: The Beat
Babatunde Olatunji
"Olatunji is a master drummer from Nigeria. This is his composition honoring the Orishas, the Gods of the Yoruban people. The drum sound is massive. The call and response of the vocals is magnetic. These complex rhythms begin to breathe as one seething organism. This is drums and voice at its best." -MH
A digitally remixed version of Dance to the Beat of My Drum, this melodic album showcases Olatunji's rhythmic, spirit-filled sound. Features Mickey Hart, Airto Moreira, Carlos Santana.
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The Music of Upper and Lower Egypt
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The Music of Upper and Lower Egypt
Various Artists
"This is the joyous music of the Egyptian people, filled with hope in the face of adversity. The sounds of their voices are echoes of a past, re-emerging as modem folk songs." -MH
Recorded during the Grateful Dead's 1978, tour of Egypt, Hart produced these unique performances from the Aswan region. The colorful Egyptian folk music and its rich melodies were much affected by the counrty's historical location. The music was influenced by the culture of Pharanic, Coptic and Islamic heritages, as well as the more recent Maeluk Kingdoms and subsequent colonal and revolutionary eras. All left there marks on the character and form of the Egyptian folk music.
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Sarangi: The Music of India
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Sarangi: The Music of India
Ustad Sultan Kahn
"I think this is number one in my personal recordings. The sarangi is an instrument of many voices. It expresses the sound of the human soul like no other instrument. Shri Rij Rams' inspired rhythmic accompaniment is awesome. I've heard this recording many times and look forward to each playing as if it were the first. These two, Sultan Khan and Ram, come together on this night like no other night. This is very special music." -MH
The intricate and exquisite sound of the sarangi in the hands of Ustad Sultan Kahn, a master of the instrument. In November 1974, Pandit Ravi Shankar and George Harrison collaborated with some of the greatest Indian musicians of our time on a concert tour of the United States. When the group arrived in San Francisco, the Indian musicians were invited to perform an informal concert at the Stone House in Marin County. This recording is a document of that performance.
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Eclipse
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Eclipse
Hamza el Din
"As the Moors swept across North Africa, they left their songs, myths, and legends. Hamza el Din mixes sounds of Islam with those of North Africa in a modem seeing using voice, uud (a 12 string lute-like instrument,)and the frame drum."
Hamza el Din, pioneering oud master from Sudan, performs mesmerizing music based on traditional Arabic forms. |
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The Invocation
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The Invocation
Babatunde Olatunji
A digital recording by the Nigerian drum master of Yoruban rhythms; eleven percussionists and seven vocalists combine to create a soaring work of rhythm and rapture.
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The Invocation
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Diga
Diga Rhythm Band
"This recording was a labor of love; the world's percussion coming together for a brief moment in time. It is filled with tuned percussion from all over the world-brass, skin, stone, wood. It is music of the whole earth. Diga is a jewel." -MH
A crystalline remix of the classic percussion album from a band of eleven rhythmists, including Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain and featuring Jerry Garcia. Zakir Hussain founded the Tal Vadya Rhythm Band in 1973, as an Ali Akbar College of Music performance project. When Mickey Hart joined Tal Vadya in 1975, the name was changed to Diga Rhythm Band. This album was made the following year.
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