Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart's personal odyssey into the spirit of percussion. As producer of The World, he showcases some of the most dynamic, yet sublime music of our planet. On AT THE EDGE he combines these ancient techniques and instruments with the most modern of recording technology to explore the outer limits of drumming. The companion piece to his first book, this album is a chronicle of Hart's search for the rhythmic beginnings of music, for the primal pulse that has beaten under every human activity -- all celebrations, rites of passage, wars, shamanic rituals -- in every culture since time immemorial. Exploring the primeval instrumentation of man's earliest sonic expression, the "instruments that have made it through time," Hart tuned the percussive rudiments of whistles and gourd rattles, wooden rainsticks and slit gongs, panpipes and bells, using state-of-the-art spatial reverberation and electronic processing. Acoustic natural sounds (wind, thunder, rain, insects, recorded with close-microphone technique outside his mountain home) were mixed, enabling Hart to create the environment for "an ancient future, allowing us to go back in time, recreating a more silent space."
Mickey Hart (born September 11, 1943) is best known as one of the two drummers from the rock band the Grateful Dead. He and fellow Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann earned the nickname "the rhythm devils". He joined the Grateful Dead in September 1967, and left in February 1971, after some bad business deals by his father Lenny Hart, who had briefly managed the Dead. During his sabbatical, in 1972, he recorded the album Rolling Thunder. He returned to the Dead in 1974, and remained with the group until their official dissolution in 1995.
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Geoff Johns
A self-teaching CD on the magic of drumming, from master drummer and teacher Geoff Johns. Drum! covers how to play the World Beat rhythms and percussion structures of Ghana, Cuba, Guinea, Haiti and Brazil. Each exercise is explained in plain language, making it easy to play along. Presents six original compositions in step-by-step detail, and includes tablature booklet. For beginning and intermediate students.
60 mins. ... CD
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Ottmar Liebert
Ottmar Liebert is the foremost practitioner of a style called nouveau flamenco--a synthesis of traditional flamenco, jazz and new age music. Liebert's guitar is supported by bass guitar, percussion and on this recording, full orchestra. Leaning into the Night features Liebert's unique interpretations of his own music as well as compositions by Mompou, Villa-Lobos, Ravel, Satie, and Puccini.
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