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Mickey Hart – RAMU (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:18 minutes | 529 MB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mickey Hart PS
Legendary drummer of the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart, brings us his first solo album in four years with RAMU. The title refers to his workstation, the Random Access Musical Universe which he uses to access a dizzying array of samples for creating his music. Exploring difficult themes, Hart builds an atmospheric and texturally dense sonic world.
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Mickey Hart – Planet Drum (25th Anniversary) (1991/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:51 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: World, New Age
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mickey Hart Catalog
The Grateful Dead’s drummer Mickey Hart released this world music album in 1991 in conjunction with a book of the same title, both celebrating percussionists from different musical cultures around the world. Hart earned the first-ever world music Grammy Award for Planet Drum, which also hit number one on Billboard’s world music chart. This 25th anniversary reissue includes three bonus tracks.
“This experience was about people wanting to come together: folks weren’t culturally bound by their rhythms; they were in the right place at the right time for a new gumbo, a new way of coming together, egoless, in the spirit, to have fun and record a classic 20th century gamelan, which has always been the carrot for me. I always wanted to ring that bell.” –Mickey Hart
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Mickey Hart – The Best of Mickey Hart: Over the Edge and Back
Artist: Mickey Hart | Album: The Best of Mickey Hart: Over the Edge and Back | Style: World Music, Fusion | Year: 2002 | Quality: DVD-Audio (MLP 5.1 96kHz/24Bit, MLP 2.0 96kHz/24Bit, Dolby AC3 5.1, Dolby AC3 2.0) | Bitrate: lossless | Tracks: 9 | Size: 3.39 Gb | Covers: in archive | Release: 360 Productions | Rykodisc (DVDA10494, UPC:014431049422), 2002 | Note: Watermarked
This is a reasonable but far too brief overview of Mickey Hart’s six world music releases for the Rykodisc label. Since these albums, dating from 1976’s Diga to 1998’s Supralingua, were conceived as individual projects and programmed to flow that way, the mix-and-match approach doesn’t work as well as it would for pop artists, or even the Grateful Dead for that matter. Still, since the music revolves around the percussive-heavy sound that Hart established, it’s moderately effective even in this truncated format. One previously unissued rarity, “Call to All Nations” written for the 1996 Olympics, might hold interest for collectors. Additionally, the tracks have not only been remastered using HDCD technology, but were also remixed by Hart for 5.1 audio. Regardless, the original albums this material was extracted from are a better, more appropriate way to enjoy the music, especially considering the relatively short 47-minute playing time that leaves almost 30 minutes of the disc empty. Extending it by adding extra unissued or live tracks and making it more continuous could have made this a much more enticing, even essential compilation. As it stands, it’s an adequate, listenable, but frustratingly limited taste of Mickey Hart’s world music side projects. (more…)
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