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WXPN........In the midnight hour on "The Blues & Beyond" our guest Mickey Hart, former Grateful Dead drummer. We'll talk about his new album "Global Drum Project" with three other great percussionists and feature tracks from that album.
Quote from: lonewolfny42 on 11 Nov 2007, 05:10 amWXPN........In the midnight hour on "The Blues & Beyond" our guest Mickey Hart, former Grateful Dead drummer. We'll talk about his new album "Global Drum Project" with three other great percussionists and feature tracks from that album.No Zakir live but, they did play 4-5 cuts from the album!
Bastards...know how to get me to spend.
The principal members of this talented 7-member band are all well-versed in classical Persian music, and though the melodies and rhythms of Radif - the Persian classical repertoire - saturate their brooding, deeply moving disc, they are by no means slaves to tradition. Call it experimental Near Eastern art music, infused with overtones of Sufism, not to mention ripping percussion. Leader/guitarist Ramin Torkian plays a nylon-stringed classical guitar, retooled with movable frets, so he can approximate the untempered intervals of Persian music. The effect is utterly beautiful, as is the voice of Mamak Khadem, which rings out through the album like a crystalline bell of despair and pain