ARTiST: Mickey Hart And Zakir Hussain
ALBUM: Global Drum Project
BiTRATE: 183kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Shout Factory
GENRE: Instrumental
SiZE: 57 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 41min 55sec total
RiP DATE: 2008-01-16
STORE DATE: 2007-10-02
Track List:
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01. Baba 5:25
02. Kaluli Groove 7:20
03. Funky Zena 4:26
04. Under One Groove 5:58
05. Dances With Wood 4:07
06. Heartspace 5:27
07. Tars 4:18
08. I Can Tell You More 4:54
Release Notes:
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It was three decades ago that Mickey Hart stepped out from behind the Grateful
Dead and created his first global drum project on Diga Rhythm Band. That album
still sounds as fresh and vibrant today as it did in 1976, when it was received
more as a curiosity than the world-music prophecy it turned out to be. Hart and
his rhythm partner from Diga, tabla titan Zakir Hussain, reworked the concept
for their Planet Drum album in 1991, and they now return with Global Drum
Project. It's an CD that continues Hart's infatuation with electronic toys and
their percussive possibilities as he mixes samples and MIDI-triggered
electronics into the works. With Planet Drummers Sikiru Adepoju and Giovanni
Hidalgo plus Taufiq Qureshi joining in, there's little doubt that GDP is a
groove-centric album. After the exultant opening track "Baba," featuring
Babatunde Olatunji, the soul of the original Planet Drum, sampled posthumously,
most tracks settle into dark, swampy, steady-state grooves. Sampled rhythmic
singing from Zakir punctuates "Under One Groove," while "Heartspace" adds
sarangi and sitar for a more Eastern, meditative space. It isn't the virtuoso
rhythm workout you might expect, but neither is it the orchestrated percussive
percolations of Diga or Planet Drum. Instead, it's a chilled electro-percussive
jam session with looping grooves oscillated by electronics and cut with a
digital razor.