Babatunde Olatunji - Drums of Passion The Invocation (1988)

Format: flac + cue + log

Genre: Folk, World

Release Date: 1988

Label: Rykodisc

This is the second new recording by percussion master Babatunde Olatunji for Mickey Hart's series "The World." In contrast to
the preceding DRUMS OF PASSION: THE BEAT, which featured a modern rock-guitar sound lent by Carlos Santana, THE INVOCATION
features eleven percussionists and seven vocalists in a work of rhythm and rapture. A review in Musician said of the album,
"Its immense sound scalds you until you feel the humidity coming out of the ground....It resonates like a polyrhythmic high mass."

Olatunji's association with Rykodisc was brought about by producer and Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart, who was a Long
Island high schooler when he first experienced Olatunji's magic. As he told Downbeat: "Olatunji was the one who turned me on
to talking drums; he was a big influence on me. Now here I am almost 30 years later, playing with him and producing him. It's full circle."