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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 electronic
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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. --John Diliberto
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Manufacturer: Shout Factory
Release date: 2 October 2007
EAN: 0826663107067 UPC: 826663107067
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