The Best of Mickey Hart: Over the Edge and Back

CD by Mickey Hart
Studio Compilation w/New Release - 1 CD
Rykodisc  2002 4/23

Includes the previously unreleased Opening Ceremony music for the 100th Olympiad, Atlanta 1996

Selections from:
Diga - 1976, studio
The Apocalypse Now Sessions - 1980, studio
At the Edge - 1990, studio
Planet Drum - 1991, studio
Mickey Hart's Mystery Box - 1996, studio
Supralingua - 1998, studio

Recorded 1976~ - 1996~

Angola:
Mickey Hart - RAMU (processed didjeridu, flute, chinese erhu samples, vocal samples), lead vocals, djembe, metal percussion
Sikiru Adepoju - djembe, dundun, metal percussion
David Garibaldi - drum kit, metal percussion
Giovanni Hidalgo - djembe, shekere, cluster drums, metal percussion, bongos
Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir - vocals (sampled)
Zakir Hussain - djembe, def drum, metal percussion
Bakithi Kumalo - electric bass
Graham Wiggins - didjeridu sample

Where Love Goes (Sito):
Mickey Hart - drums, claps, timbales, high crystal percussion
Sikiru Adepoju - talking drum
Habib Faye - bass
Giovanni Hidalgo - bongos, timbale, cowbell
Zakir Hussain - dholak, shekere, duggi tarang, djembe
Mint Juleps - vocals
Babatunde Olatunji - background vocals
Jeff Sterling - synthesizer

Down the Road:
Mickey Hart - drums, cowbell, gourd, guiro, vocals
Habib Faye - bass
Giovanni Hidalgo - congas
Bruce Hornsby - accordion, background vocals
Mint Juleps - vocals
Jeff Sterling - synthesizer

Sweet Sixteen:
Mickey Hart - traps, gongs, timbales, tympani
Jordan Amarantha - congas, bongos
Peter Carmichael - tabla
Aushim Chaudhuri - tabla
Vince Delgado - dumbek, table, talking drum
Tor Dietrichson - tabla
Zakir Hussain - tabla, folk drums, tar
Jim Loveless - marimbas
Joy Shulman - tabla
Ray Spiegel - vibes
Arshad Syed - duggi tarang, nal

The Eliminators:
Mickey Hart - devil chasers (bamboo concussion sticks), bass drum
Sikiru Adepoju - dundun
Jerry Garcia - guitar synthesizer
Creek Hart - linn 9000 drum samples
Taro S Hart - kawasaki electronic drums

Udu Chant:
Mickey Hart - bass drum, snare drum, hoop drum, tambourine, triangle, beam, vocals
Sikiru Adepoju - cowbell
Zakir Hussain - udu drum, balafon, tabla
Airto Moreira - tamanco, bird calls, whistles, conch shell, claps, chimes, vocals

Temple Caves:
Mickey Hart - split bamboo, rain sticks, shakers, earth drum, clackers, duggi tarang, body percussion
Sikiru Adepoju - gudugudu
Zakir Hussain - tabla, taya
Airto Moreira - slit gongs, conch shell, shakers, voice/breath
Babatunde Olatunji - djembe, congas

Compound:
Mickey Hart - percussion
Jordan Amarantha - congas
Greg Errico - drums
Michael Hinton - percussion
Bill Kreutzmann - percussion
Phil Lesh - bass
Jim Loveless - marimba
Airto Moreira - percussion
Flora Purim - vocals

Call To All Nations - Opening Ceremonies, 100th Olympiad, Atlanta, 1996:
Mickey Hart - percussion
Sikiru Adepoju - percussion
Kim Atkinson - percussion
Joan Baez - voices
Claudio Bebianno - percussion
Jorge Burmudez
Chalo Eduardo - percussion
Philip Glass - percussion
Al Guzman - percussion
Giovanni Hidalgo - percussion
Zakir Hussain - percussion
Brenda Lowe - voices
Babatunde Olatunji - voices
Rudy Ortiz - percussion
Naji Youssef - voices