Mickey Hart & the Global Drum Project
Global Drum Project, the first collaboration from Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart and Indian tabla legend Zakir Hussain since their Grammy -winning Planet Drum release. Some of the world's finest drum talent for a collaboration that won the very first Grammy for world music - bringing together Nigerian drum legend Babatunde Olatunji, Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, among many others. the 1991 album spent an unprecedented 26 weeks at #1 on the Billboard world music chart, and continues to sell as a perennial favorite. 15 years later, the musical partnership of Hart and Hussain - which began with their groundbreaking 1070s world fusion experiment 'Diga Rhythm Band' - resumes, with a fresh collaboration of tranced-out-grooves, elegant electronic programming and hypnotic tuned percussion and again enlists the great partnership of Adepoju and Hidalgo. This time they are joined by Taufiq Qureshi on percussion and vocals, Niladari Kumar on sitar, Dilshad Khan on sarangi, and the late, great Olatunji in sampled vocals from the original sessions. Elements from Hart's various world music recordings, including the Kaluli tribespeople of Papua New Guinea's rainforest, are woven with the live performances into a danceable, multi-textured celebration of rhythm.