Album Info
| 1. Endless Cycle | Year of Recording: 1992 | |||
| 2. Tumbleweed | Record Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings | |||
| 3. Back Streets of Havana | Producers: Mickey Hart, Airto Moreira | |||
| 4. Healing Sounds | Engineers: Tom Flye, Jeff Sterling | |||
| 5. The Underwater People | Series Ethnomusicology Consultant: Fredric Lieberman, Ph.D. | |||
| 6. Old Man’s Song | Photography: Dennis Potokar | |||
| 7. Hey Ya | Production Manager: Howard Cohen | |||
| 8. When Angels Cry | Liner Notes: Airto Moreira with Caryl Ohrbach | |||
| 9. Dom-Um (A Good Friend) | ||||
| 10. Street Reunion | ||||
| 11. Mirror of the Past | ||||
| 12. Sedonia’s Circle | ||||
| 13. Terra E Mar | ||||
Description
The Other Side of This was recorded at Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart’s home studio in 1991. The album’s 13 selections are inspired by the Afro-Brazilian traditions of Airto Moreira’s heritage and take the listener on an aural tour of imaginary landscapes. The liner notes provide guided visualizations intended to transport the listener step-by-step through an array of emotions ranging from reflection to celebration. “The spirit body can travel to places that the material body cannot,” says Moreira. “It is these places I speak of when I say ‘the other side of this.’” The album features a variety of sounds including stomping, vocals, tree branches, surdo (a large Brazilian bass drum), shakers, cowbell, rattles, and bullroarer. The Other Side of This was issued in 1992 as part of “THE WORLD” series (now part of the Mickey Hart Collection made available by Smithsonian Folkways).
“Airto comes from a healing family in Brazil. There are chants and rituals and sounds–things that he has learned from childhood. And now he’s developing it again–going back to his roots–I don’t think he likes to talk about it very much–but he’s decided to do an album of music to heal people. Especially people that are frustrated, mentally affected, & stuff. At the same time, in working with this music, which is not music but sounds, mostly percussive sounds, he decided to use some of it in his next album.” — Mickey Hart
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