SUPRALINGUA includes a bonus Enhanced CD containing both a full audio program as well as multimedia computer files.

Planet Drum: Mickey Hart (vocals, RAMU, percussion); Bakithi Kumalo (vocals, bass, drums); Sikiru Adepoju, Giovanni Hidalgo (vocals, percussion); Bobi Cespedes, Jesus Diaz, Raz Kennedy, Joey Blake, Reya Hart, Alan Kushan, Rebeca Mauleon (vocals); David Garibaldi (drums, metal percussion, wood blocks); Jorge Bermudez, Chalo Eduardo, Mimi Spencer (percussion); Graham Wiggins (didjeridu sample).

Additional personnel: Bakithi Kumalo (vocals, bass, percussion); Zakir Hussain (vocals, percussion); Babatunde Olatunji, The Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir (vocals); Airto Moreira (caxixi).

Includes liner notes by Mickey Hart, Fredric Lieberman.

All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart makes a vibrant addition to his series of percussion projects with SUPRALINGUA. Featuring such rhythmic luminaries as Baba Olatunji, Zakir Hussain and Airto Moreira, the recording is a lush aural pastiche of planetary proportions. The weave of synthesized sounds and vocal samples is at times reminiscent of, among other things, The Art of Noise's creations.

Lots of drums here, folks. "Umasha" is a groove-feast for patchouli-twirlers and armchair occupants alike, sailing smoothly along on an oversized bass and a harmonized melody that glows in the dark. Rebeca Mauleon's singing on "Endless River" is truly haunting, amplified greatly by Hart's piercing bell sounds and Sikiru Adepoju on the talking drum (dundun). The mixing magic and beautiful call-and-response displays on SUPRALINGUA are just some of the things that make Hart's excellent production sense really shine through. Yet another of Hart's gatherings of great musics of the world.

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