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Track Listing
1. Berimbau Jam
2. Sange
3. Okesa Prayer
4. Wataru
5. Maracatu
6. Psychopomp
7. Daraijin
8. Oya y Ogun
9. Echo Bells
10. Kashira
11. Ektal
Album Notes
Kodo includes: Ryutaro Kaneko, Motofumi Yamaguchi, Yoshikazu Fujimoto, Yoko Fujimoto, Eiichi Saito, Hideyuki Saito, Tomohiro Mitome, Tetsuro Naito, Akira Nanjo, Takeshi Arai, Kazuki Imagai, Tsubasa Hori, Kaoru Watanabe.
Additional personnel includes: Airto Moreira (vocals, berimbau, drums, caxixis, bells); Zakir Hussain (tar, tabla, duggies); Mickey Hart (wooden flute, jegog, drums, talking drum, gong); Charlie Musselwhite (harmonica).
Recorded at Studio X, Sebastopol, California and Sony Music Studios, Tokyo, Japan between March and July 2001. Includes liner notes by Mickey Hart.
Anyone who has seen Kodo perform in concert will recall their spectacular onstage presence, massive taiko drums, and a singularly Japanese aesthetic that draws upon centuries of tradition. More than merely a bunch of guys with drums (at last count, they had four women members), Kodo is a performing arts collective that has helped reinvigorate the cultural forms of Sado Island, where they are based.
On MONDO HEAD, the troupe gets together with half the crew from the classic worldbeat combo PLANET DRUM, including Zakir Hussain and Vikku Vinayakram of India, Brazilian Airto Moreira, and of course, the Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart, who also produced the album. "Okesa Prayer" features the primal, multiphonic rumblings of the Gyuto Tantric Choir, while Azam Ali, formerly of Vas, provides haunting vocals on the final track, "Ektal." A wide-ranging album, if perhaps less geared to Kodo purists than to fans of contemporary world music.
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