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At The Edge

Mickey Hart

Initial release : September 1990

Rykodisc RCD 10124

Garcia plays on three tracks of this Mickey Hart album.

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Tracks

  • #4 For Gaia (Mickey Hart)
  • Sky Water (Mickey Hart / Zakir Hussain)
  • Slow Sailing (Mickey Hart / Zakir Hussain)
  • Lonesome Hero (Mickey Hart)
  • Fast Sailing (Mickey Hart / Zakir Hussain)
  • Cougar Run (Mickey Hart)
  • The Eliminators (Mickey Hart / Creek Hart / Taro S. Hart / Jerry Garcia
  • Brainstorm (Mickey Hart / Babatunde Olatunji)
  • Pigs in Space (Airto Moreira)
Musicians

The musicians featured on the CD are;

  • Mickey Hart - whistles, rainstick, processed bell, rattles, forest zone (processed crickets), matrix-12, roland d-50, remo toms, raindrops, slit gongs (hollow log), engelhart cornet bells (metal percussion), kalimba (thumb piano), cowbells, dundun (talking drum), panpipes, trap set, agogo (double bell), balafon (pentatonic marimba), shekere (beaded gourd rattle), devil chasers (bamboo concussion sticks), bass drum, wood blocks, tar, spatial processing
  • Sikiru Adepoju - dundun
  • Jerry Garcia - guitar, forest zone, guitar synthesizer
  • Creek Hart - linn 9000 drum samples
  • Taro S Hart - kawasaki electronic drums
  • Zakir Hussain - tar (frame drum), tabla, processed tabla, duggi tarang, shakers, dholak (double-headed cylinder drum)
  • Jose Lorenzo - berimbau (musical bow)
  • Airto Moreira - extended voice and beast
  • Babatunde Olatunji - djembe (wooden hour glass drum), cowbell, shekere (beaded gourd rattle), engelhart hex bells
The CD notes provides track by track musician information.

#4 For Gaia;

  • Mickey Hart - whistles, rainstick, rattles, forest zone (processed crickets), matrix-12, roland d-50
  • Jerry Garcia - forest zone
Sky Water;
  • Zakir Hussain - processed tabla, duggi tarang
  • Jerry Garcia - guitar
  • Mickey Hart - processed bell
Slow Sailing;
  • Mickey Hart - remo toms, raindrops, slit gongs (hollow log), engelhart cornet bells (metal percussion), kalimba (thumb piano)
  • Zakir Hussain - tar (frame drum), processed tabla, duggi tarang
Lonesome Hero;
  • Mickey Hart - cowbells, dundun (talking drum), panpipes
  • Zakir Hussain - shakers
  • Jose Lorenzo - berimbau (musical bow)
  • Sikiru Adepoju - dundun
  • Babatunde Olatunji - djembe (wooden hour glass drum)
Fast Sailing;
  • Mickey Hart - trap set, agogo (double bell), balafon (pentatonic marimba), cowbells, shekere (beaded gourd rattle)
  • Zakir Hussain - dholak (double-headed cylinder drum), tabla, duggi tarang
  • Sikiru Adepoju - dundun
  • Babatunde Olatunji - engelhart hex bells
Cougar Run;
  • Mickey Hart - wood blocks, whistles, matrix-12
  • Babatunde Olatunji - djembe (wooden hour glass drum), cowbell, shekere (beaded gourd rattle)
The Eliminators;
  • Jerry Garcia - guitar synthesizer
  • Creek Hart - linn 9000 drum samples
  • Taro S Hart - kawasaki electronic drums
  • Mickey Hart - devil chasers (bamboo concussion sticks), bass drum
  • Sikiru Adepoju - dundun
Brainstorm;
  • Mickey Hart - tar, cowbells
  • Babatunde Olatunji - djembe, slit gong, shekere
Pigs In Space;
  • Mickey Hart - spatial processing
  • Airto Moreira - extended voice and beast
Credits

  • Producer - Mickey Hart
  • Engineer, mixing - Tom Flye, Jeff Starling
  • Additional engineering - Phil Kaffel, Tom Size
  • Computer processing - Jeff Starling
  • CD mastering - Joe Glaswirt
  • Technical support - Jack Crymes
  • Liner notes - Jay Stevens
  • Cover art - Nancy Nimoy
  • Art direction - Howard Jacobsen / Triad
  • Package design - Steven Jurgenmeyer

  • Special thanks to Jeff Briss, Howard Cohen, Barry Melton, Steve Parish, Ram Rod, Pete Sears, Atesh Sonneborn

  • Recorded at Studio X, 1987-1990 except #4 For Gaia Forest sounds recorded at Studio X January 1989; Forest Zone recorded at Tamalpias Research Center, 1975; Pigs In Space recorded at Fantasy Studios, Studio D, Berkeley

  • Fast Sailing is dedicated to the memory of Tom Blackaller
Notes

There is a companion book to the At The Edge album, Drumming At The Edge Of Magic which is described as follows in the notes in the CD booklet;

Mickey Hart tells the compelling tale of his journey into the spirit of percussion. Part autobiography and personal memoir, this book recounts the exciting discovery of the historical and spiritual heritage of Hart's instrument, and his impassioned quest to unlock the secrets of the drum, the instrument that since ancient times has transported humanity to the 'edge of magic' and beyond.
The booklet also describes the technical details of the recording process

Related releases

Sky Water was included on the sampler CD;

Fast Sailing was included on; The Eliminators was included on;

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