Global Drum Project: Tour/Album

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Global Drum Project

This week Global Drum Project will set out on a nationwide tour that starts today (9/20) in Tucson, AZ at Centennial Hall. The tour is highlighted with a big hometown area appearance at Zellerbach Auditorium in Berkeley, CA on September 28 and a show at the new Highline Ballroom in New York City on October 17, which is part of the CMJ Music Conference. The tour wraps up in Minneapolis, MN at Orchestra Hall on October 27.

GLOBAL DRUM PROJECT Tour brings Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju, and Giovanni Hidalgo together again in a reunion sparked by the 15th anniversary of the groundbreaking album Planet Drum. Released in 1991 on the Rykodisc label it went on to earn the first-ever Grammy Award in the World Music category. The tour is the groups first in almost a decade. It also marks the resumption of an artistic relationship – between Mickey Hart and Zakir Hussain – that goes back to the late 1960s.

For Hart, this reunion is an opportunity to take Planet Drum into new places. "This is a deep drumming groove. We're taking the archaic rhythm worlds into outer space. Planet Drum explores rhythm and noise... it's a sound yoga of processed acoustic percussion headed straight for the trance zone that becomes a dance of ancient and modern worlds. Deep drumming is a skeleton key into these realms."

Listen to Global Drum here.

The bands brand new self-titled release, Global Drum Project, will be released on October 2 on Shout! Factory.

http://www.mickeyhart.net/

[Published on: 9/20/07]

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Trippy14

Thu 9/20/2007 11:34AM

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pur rumpa pum pum

acomma Thu 9/20/2007 01:27PM

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mickey hart has an inspiring passion for percussion.

acomma Thu 9/20/2007 01:39PM

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mickey hart has an inspiring passion for percussion.

Marcsmall Thu 9/20/2007 03:02PM

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Boulder Theater on Sunday should be great

data Thu 9/20/2007 05:35PM

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MatthewAtienza Fri 9/21/2007 10:52AM

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Yeaaaaa! Got my tickets for the minneapolis show!

Buggtape Fri 9/21/2007 11:08AM

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jambase forgot their burlington vermont love. 10.13 at the Flynn. Downtown Burlington Vermont. Cheers guys!

brooklynite84

Sat 9/22/2007 11:19AM

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Just saw Mickey in Mesa last night and he slammed it! This band plays so tight. Thank you Mickey for bringing world music back again. I had a flashback within the first 2 minutes of the show. It's a spiritual experience that NEEDS to be checked out! HAVE A GRATEFUL DAY AND SHINE ON!