![]() So I'm starting to take all of my music into this kind of new space, which is very exciting. You can put it in the sonic wonder category. Clubs are starting to crop up where they have the ability to do this kind of spatial sound. It would be difficult, because you’d have to have speakers above the audience. Really? Well, I imagine you have to have special gear for this. You might not have heard it, but once you've heard it, it will be hard to listen to stereo again. So right now, I'm taking Planet Drum In The Groove into Atmos. ![]() Movies and TV are now being made in Atmos. So you are able to have vertical movement where you can put sonic objects in space. It is like surround sound or 5-1 kind of, sort of. I’m into Dolby Atmos, which has vertical movement. Well, one of the things is I'm into immersive sound. The electronics are now making it really interesting. I think the first time I spoke to you was at the very beginning of this project in 1991. Meanwhile, you've gone back to Planet Drum. We need young energy to carry on the Afropop mission. These days, we ’re laying the groundwork to pass the torch to the next generation. Well, we ’re about to enter our 35th year. Yes, busy keeping Afropop alive and healthy in these trying times. I reached Hart in his California studio to talk about the new project.īanning Eyre: Mickey. Now, 31 years later, Hart is releasing a new Planet Drum album called In The Groove and this time, the whole point is to make dance music. ![]() He spoke about the sensibilities of the band ’s mostly white audience and about the sonic exploration that was so crucial to those segments of the show. I remember asking Hart why it was that at Dead shows, when the olbigatory “ Drums” segment began, the audience always sat down-kind of the opposite of what you might expect. But back to 1991, the idea for Hart’s Planet Drum band was to gather a summit of world-class percussionists: Zakir Hussain of India, Giovani Hidalgo of Puerto Rico, Sikiru Adepoju from Nigeria, and of course Hart, with his enthusiasm for emerging sonic technology and his wide-open Grateful Dead spirit. Ever since members have toured under various names, most recently Dead and Company. The band ceased to exist in 1995 when Jerry Garcia died. I first interviewed Mickey Hart about the Grammy Award-winning Planet Drum project back in 1991 at the time when the Grateful Dead was in its glorious final years of relentless touring.
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