The Grateful Dead Thread - Bilge

H hodadhank Member Mission Beach, CA Joined: Dec 28, 2005 Posts: 1689	H hodadhank Posted posted on Fri, Feb 23, 2007 8:42 PM GD drummer and ethnomusicologist Mickey Hart has long studied and sought to preserve vanishing indigenous musics worldwide. Hart has used his state-of-the-art field recording gear and produced dozens of albums for The World label as well as Smithsonian Institutes' Folkways label... including Hawaiian Drum Dance Chants: Sounds of Power in Time. Recorded in 1989 these chanted texts or "Meles", some a capella, others including "Pahu" drumming date back to the 1920's and have far reaching traditional Hawaiian roots. http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=2057# As a drummer Hart has played and recorded with many of the worlds most respected drummers including Airto Moreira, Babatunde Olatunji, Giovanni Hidalgo and renowned tabla master Zakir Hussein, with whom he recorded 1992's Grammy winning Planet Drum also voted "World Music Album of the Year." by DOWNBEAT.

GD drummer and ethnomusicologist Mickey Hart has long studied and sought to preserve vanishing indigenous musics worldwide. Hart has used his state-of-the-art field recording gear and produced dozens of albums for The World label as well as Smithsonian Institutes' Folkways label...

including Hawaiian Drum Dance Chants: Sounds of Power in Time. Recorded in 1989 these chanted texts or "Meles", some a capella, others including "Pahu" drumming date back to the 1920's and have far reaching traditional Hawaiian roots.

http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=2057#

As a drummer Hart has played and recorded with many of the worlds most respected drummers including Airto Moreira, Babatunde Olatunji, Giovanni Hidalgo and renowned tabla master Zakir Hussein, with whom he recorded 1992's Grammy winning Planet Drum also voted "World Music Album of the Year." by DOWNBEAT.

Post #287804 by hodadhank on Fri, Feb 23, 2007 8:42 PM