Mickey Hart - The Best of Mickey Hart: Over the Edge and Back

Title: The Best of Mickey Hart: Over the Edge and Back Artist: Mickey Hart Release Date: 4/23/2002 Label: Rykodisc Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 014431038525 Genre: Rock Styles: Ethnic Fusion, Worldbeat Moods: Ambitious, Atmospheric, Cerebral, Complex, Hypnotic, Intimate, Knotty, Organic, Passionate, Reflective, Searching, Spiritual Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 2 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Angola
2. Where Love Goes
3. Down the Road
4. Sweet Sixteen
5. The Eliminators
6. Udu Chant
7. Temple Caves
8. Compound
9. Call to All Nations, Opening Ceremonies, 100th Olympiad, Atlanta 1996

Year Type Label Catalog # 2002 CD Rykodisc 10385

No other editions were found for this album.

This is a reasonable but far too brief overview of Mickey Hart's six world music releases for the Rykodisc label. Since these albums, dating from 1976's Diga to 1998's Supralingua, were conceived as individual projects and programmed to flow that way, the mix-and-match approach doesn't work as well as it would for pop artists, or even the Grateful Dead for that matter. Still, since the music revolves around the percussive-heavy sound that Hart established, it's moderately effective even in this truncated format. One previously unissued rarity, "Call to All Nations" written for the 1996 Olympics, might hold interest for collectors. Additionally, the tracks have not only been remastered using HDCD technology, but were also remixed by Hart for 5.1 audio. Regardless, the original albums this material was extracted from are a better, more appropriate way to enjoy the music, especially considering the relatively short 47-minute playing time that leaves almost 30 minutes of the disc empty. Extending it by adding extra unissued or live tracks and making it more continuous could have made this a much more enticing, even essential compilation. As it stands, it's an adequate, listenable, but frustratingly limited taste of Mickey Hart's world music side projects. ~ Hal Horowitz, All Music Guide

Name Credits Airto Moreira Shaker, Voices, Bird Calls, Whistle (Instrument), Chimes, Clapping, Vocals, Conch Shell, Whistle (Human), Percussion, Breathing, ?, Gong Al Guzman Percussion Arshad Syed Duggi Tarang, ? Aushim Chaudhuri Tabla Babatunde Olatunji Conga, Vocals (Background), Djembe, Vocals, Voices Bakithi Khumalo Bass (Electric) Bill Kreutzmann Percussion Brenda Lowe Voices, Vocals Bruce Hornsby Accordion, Vocals (Background) Chalo Eduardo Percussion Chris Steinmetz Engineer Creek Hart Linn 9000 David Garibaldi Metal Percussion, Drums Diga Rhythm Band ? Ferenc Dobronyi Cover Illustration Flora Purim Vocals Fred Hahn Pro-Tools Giovanni Hidalgo Drums, Djembe, Percussion, Cowbell, Conga, Timbales, Shekere, Bongos, Metal Percussion Graham Wiggins Didjeridu Greg Errico Drums Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir Sampling Habib Faye Guitar (Bass) Howard R. Cohen Production Coordination Jeff Sterling Synthesizer Jerry Garcia Guitar (Synthesizer) Jim Loveless Marimba Joan Baez Vocals, Voices Jordan Amarantha Conga, Bongos Joy Shulman Tabla Kevin Sellers Pro-Tools Kim Atkinson Percussion Miceky Hart Producer Michael Hinton Percussion Mickey Hart Stick, Percussion, Metal Percussion, Tarang, Clapping, Producer, Timbales, Drums, Trap Kit, Guiro, Rainstick, Sampling, Vocals, Gong, Flute, Mixing, Shekere, Djembe, Duggis, Tambourine, Bongos, Split Bamboo, Cowbell, Erhu, Tympani [Timpani], Triangle, Drums (Bass), Clacker, Gourd, Shaker, Drums (Snare), Didjeridu Peter Carmichael Tabla Phil Lesh Bass Philip Glass Percussion Ray Spiegel Vibraphone Rudson Shurtliff Assistant Engineer Sikiru Adepoju Gudu Gudu, Djembe, Cowbell, Metal Percussion, Percussion, Dun-dun, Talking Drum Steve Hall Mastering Engineer, Engineer Steven Jurgensmeyer Design Taro S. Hart Drums (Electric) The Mint Juleps Vocals Tom Flye Mixing Tor Dietrichson Tabla Vince Delgado Dumbek, Talking Drum, Tabla Zakir Hussain Metal Percussion, Shekere, Balafon, Duggi Tarang, Taragat, Percussion, Udu, Dholak, Tabla, Def, Tarang, Duggis, Tars, Djembe, Drums