Mickey Hart’s long anticipated new album Mysterium Tremendum is due out on April 10, 2012.
It will contain new music from the Mickey Hart Band, including new songs from the ever prolific Robert Hunter. Many of the expected tracks have been performed in recent months as Mickey has been out on the road with this project, including “Let There Be Light”, “Slo Jo Rain” and ”Supersonic”.
Mickey Hart Band “Let There Be Light” features lyrics by Robert Hunter
Mickey Hart and his new band has been in the studio with producer Ben Yonas, who also plays in the Mickey Hart Band. Ben is often tucked away further back of the stage, adding his sonifications on keyboards and a Mac.
He is literally upstaged, likely by design, by frontman singer Tim Hockenberry, who also plays keyboards as well as multiple other instruments. Also in front is Crystal Monee Hall, who sings and plays guitar, Gawain Mathews on lead guitar, Ian “INKX” Herman on drums, longtime Mickey Hart player Sikiru Adepoju on talking drum and djembe, and in the bass position Dave Schools from Widespread Panic. Of course Mickey Hart is playing drums, the beam, and RAMU – his computer programmed Random Access Digital Musical Universe gizmo.
This band, creating the sound and finding the right musicians to bring it to life, is something Mickey has been developing behind the scenes for a little while. Deadheadland spoke to Mickey about it last summer in our interview with him. He first took it out in embryonic form at the Wave Gravy 75th Birthday celebration in 2011, and then officially debuted over the summer.
Read our coverage of his shows in San Francisco and Oakland.
MICKEY HART WEST COAST TOUR
The Mickey Hart Band will be on tour in the west during March 2012:
Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, Las Vegas NV, Flagstaff AZ, San Luis Obispo, Healdsburg, Sacramento and Chico.
MICKEY HART ABOVE THE CLOUDS TOUR
Then, on the same day as the Mysterium Tremendum album is released, April 10, 2012, the Mickey Hart Band begins it’s ambitious ABOVE THE CLOUDS tour in Louisville Kentucky. Then Cleveland OH, Jim Thorpe PA, Ridgefield CT, Londonderry NH, Washington DC, Carrboro NC, Ashville NC, the Wanee Festival in Live Oak FL, Sweetwater 420 Festival in Atlanta GA, Birmingham AL, Fayetville AR, Dallas TX, and Austin TX.
Quite a tour, and hitting lots of places that need a good show! And that’s just to start… expect a lot more music from mickey this festival season. The Mickey Hart Band also has these great Fan Club Ticket deals and VIP Ticket Packages that include meet and greet and photos with Mickey, and more.
Get the full tour, FanClub and VIP details here: http://mickeyhart.net/shows/
Go see the Mickey Hart Band, and when it comes out, get the album. It is a real treat to get to hear these new Robert Hunter penned tunes with a fresh vibe with Hart. Mickey is coming from a real good place, and he want’s to share it with you. Good energy you can feel.
Furthur Allman • Brothers Band
Gov’t Mule • Tedeschi Trucks Band
Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band • Buddy Guy
Bruce Hornsby• Mickey Hart Band
Hot Tuna Electric • Ray Manzarek & Roy Rogers Band
Leftover Salmon • North Mississippi Allstars
Trigger Hippy (Joan Osborne, Jackie Greene, Steve Gorman, Audley Freed, Nick Govrik)
Soja
• Conspirator • Eoto
Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk • Particle
Devon Allman’s Honeytribe •
Zach Deputy
Matt Schofield • Bobby Lee Rodgers Trio
Big Sams Funky Nation • Charles Bradley
Bonerama • Jacob Jeffries Band
The Yeti Trio • Bonnie Blue
Music starts Thursday, April 19th at 2:30pm!
Three Nights of Camping!
www.waneefestival.com
from Mickey Hart’s people:
Mickey Hart Reflects On “Music To Be Born By”
Hart’s Son Taro Holds Record For Youngest Recording Artist
With the recent news of Jay-Z and Beyonce’s newborn daughter “Blue Ivy” grabbing the record for the youngest person to enter the Billboard charts on her Dad’s new single “Glory”, Mickey Hart reflects on his son Taro who holds the record for the youngest recording artist, 6 months in utero, on his father’s album “Music To Be Born By [1989]“, which was just re-released by Smithsonian Folkways as part of “The Mickey Hart Collection”. “The birthing process, one of life’s great mysteries, triggered a musical response in me. The sound from the fetal monitor included among a host of gurglings and bodily noises, the emerging heartbeat of my unborn son Taro. It was the sound of new life, and a startling rhythmic event—the inner orchestra of emerging life, the rhythm world of the body at its most essential. It compelled me to entrain with it, to create new, complementary rhythms. As a father, the repetitive pulsing became symphonic in my mind; it drove me into the studio to create a new composition incorporating my son’s living, developing, hopeful, amazing, unconscious, primordial music: Music To Be Born By.”
This soothing, 70-minute soundscape was intended to transform the coldness of a hospital birthing room into a warm, rhythmic environment for the process of labor and birthing. However, after requests by several friends to use the album for their own birthing processes, Hart decided to release the recording for the general public. The music consists of Taro’s heartbeat (recorded in utero) overdubbed with bass harmonics (provided by Bobby Vega), drums, and wooden shakuhachi flute (played by Steve Douglas). Music to be Born By was issued in 1989 as part of “THE WORLD” series and re-released as part of the Mickey Hart Collection made available by Smithsonian Folkways.
Mickey Hart is currently offering 10 free downloads from The Mickey Hart Collection on his website at http://www.mickeyhart.net/download.
Editor’s Note: In my other reality, I am a massge therapist at human touch massage and also was a massage educator for over a decade, and I can vouch for how healing this music is. i have used it in many sessions, and classes. I also know of many Doula’s who use it in their birthings. >^.^<
