RAMU (album)

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RAMU
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Studio album by
Mickey Hart
ReleasedNovember 10, 2017
Genre World music
Length47:20
Label Verve Forecast
Producer Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart chronology
Superorganism
(2013)		RAMU
(2017)		 In the Groove
(2022)

RAMU is an album by drummer Mickey Hart. It combines traditional drums, electronic percussion, sampled sounds, and vocals. It was released on November 10, 2017. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Contents

The title of the album refers to the Random Access Musical Universe (RAMU). This is a synthesizer that combines a sophisticated drum machine with Hart's extensive library of sound samples. The RAMU is one of the many musical instruments heard on the album. [2] [3]

Critical reception

In Relix , Justin Jacobs wrote, "... on his latest solo release, RAMU, Hart's created a deliciously meandering, melodic exploration, with a whole cast of more contemporary voices adding some ecstatically fun spice to the global drum experience. It’s like "Drums" and "Space" with an all-star backing band of internationals and aliens.... Thankfully, this 12-song collection is total, free-wheeling fun — all lunging rhythms, slithering jazz, bubbling beats, stacked vocals, and foggy atmospherics." [6]

Pablo Gorondi of Associated Press said, "There's plenty of movement on Mickey Hart's 14th studio album, as the Grateful Dead drummer extends his prolific solo career centered on his amazing approaches to percussion, knowing expeditions into world music and the cross pollination between music and sciences.... the powers of RAMU stem from Hart's ability to calibrate layers upon layers of rhythms and melodies from bountiful sources — fine tuning instead of Auto-Tuning." [7]

In a Rolling Stone interview of Hart, Andrew Leonard wrote, "Hart mixes the old – samples of blues recordings captured by Alan Lomax, snippets of never-before-heard Jerry Garcia guitar – with percussive, pulsating electronica. You'll want to put on your highest-end headphones to listen to it." [8]

Track listing

  1. "Auctioneers" (Mickey Hart) – 2:41
  2. "Wayward Son" (Hart, Robert Hunter) – 4:08
  3. "Big Bad Wolf" (Hart, Tarriona "Tank" Ball) – 5:09
  4. "The Lost Coast" (Hart) – 4:24
  5. "Who Do You Think You Are?" (Hart, Hunter) – 3:54
  6. "You Remind Me" (Hart, Hunter) – 4:08
  7. "When the Morning Comes" (Hart, Ball) – 1:53
  8. "Jerry" (Hart, Jerry Garcia) – 3:39
  9. "Wine Wine Wine" (Hart) – 3:59
  10. "Nacare" (Hart) – 4:58
  11. "Spreading the News" (Hart, Hunter) – 3:38
  12. "Time Beyond Reason" (Hart, Hunter, Garcia) – 4:42

Personnel

Musicians

Production

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References

  1. ↑ Greenhaus, Mike (October 31, 2017). "The Core: Mickey Hart on Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter and the New RAMU". Relix. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  2. 1 2 Blais-Billie, Braudie (October 26, 2017). "Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart Announces Solo Album, Shares New Song with Avey Tare". Pitchfork. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  3. 1 2 Blistein, Jon (October 26, 2017). "Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart Previews New Solo Album RAMU with Two Songs". Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  4. ↑ Graff, Gary (November 2, 2017). "Grateful Dead Legend Mickey Hart Samples 1948 Tobacco Auction Audio for New Song". Billboard. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  5. ↑ Cush, Andy (October 26, 2017). "Hear "Wayward Son", a Collaborative Track from Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart and Animal Collective's Avey Tare". Spin. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  6. ↑ Jacobs, Justin (November 15, 2017). "CD Revue: Mickey Hart: RAMU". Relix. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
  7. ↑ Gorondi, Pablo (November 15, 2017). "Review: Mickey Hart Calibrates Universal Rhythms on RAMU". New York Daily News. Associated Press. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  8. ↑ Leonard, Andrew (March 14, 2018). "Mickey Hart's Sonic Playground". Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
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