Planet Drum

by Mickey Hart

Planet Drum cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 September 1991
  • Label: Rykodisc
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:01:51
  • Community rating: 3.32/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart assembles an unparalleled supergroup of global percussion masters, including Zakir Hussain, Airto Moreira, and Babatunde Olatunji. Earning the first-ever Grammy Award for Best World Music Album, 'Planet Drum' is an entirely acoustic, rhythmically ecstatic celebration of global percussive traditions and tribal polyrhythms.

Genres

Descriptors: Instrumental, rhythmic, folklore

Tracklist

  1. Udu Chant (3:43)
  2. Island Groove (5:44)
  3. Light Over Shadow (3:51)
  4. Dance Of The Hunter's Fire (feat. Sikiru Adepoju, Airto Moreira, Babatunde Olatunji, T.H. Vinayakram, Flora Purim, Giovanni Hidalgo & Frank Colon) (3:00)
  5. Jewe "You Are The One" (4:06)
  6. The Hunt (3:50)
  7. Temple Caves (3:15)
  8. The Dancing Sorcerer (2:57)
  9. Bones (4:13)
  10. Lost River (2:58)
  11. Evening Samba (4:30)
  12. Iyanu "Surprises" (2:04)
  13. Mysterious Island (5:36)
  14. Sea Of Showers (4:52)
  15. Throat Games (2:27)
  16. The Spot (4:38)

Credits

  • Fredric Lieberman - consultant [series ethnomusicological consultant]
  • Howard Cohen - production manager
  • Caryl Ohrbach - shaker
  • Frank Colon - shekere
  • Giovanni Hidalgo - shekere, congas, bata
  • Bruce Langhorne - vocals, body percussion
  • Gordy Ryan - vocals, body percussion
  • Molonga Casquelord - vocals

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