Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart�s innovative Planet Drum CD convened some of the world�s finest drum talent for a collaboration that won the very first GRAMMY for world music�bringing together Nigerian drum legend Babatunde Olatunji, Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, Nigerian talking drum ace Sikiru Adepoju, and Puerto Rico�s master conguero Giovanni Hidalgo, among others. The 1991 album spent an unprecedented 26 weeks at #1 on the Billboard world music chart, and continues to sell as a perennial favorite.

Fifteen years later, the musical partnership of Hart and Hussain�which began with their groundbreaking 1970s world fusion experiment Diga Rhythm Band�resumes, with a fresh collaboration of tranced-out grooves, elegant electronic programming and hypnotic tuned percussion and again enlists the great partnership of Adepoju and Hidalgo. This time they are joined by Taufiq Qureshi on percussion & vocals, Niladari Kumar on sitar, Dilshad Khan on sarangi, and the late, great Olatunji in sampled vocals from the original sessions. Elements from Hart�s various world music recordings, including the Kaluli tribespeople of Papua New Guinea�s rainforest, are woven with the live performances into a danceable, multi-textured celebration of rhythm.