Grateful Dead followers will know Mickey Hart, drummer and percussionist. Mickey has a broad knowledge, experience and collection of percussion instruments from around the world, composing and playing these instruments and in addition he has designed and constructed his own new instruments (some of which are played on this album)
Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings in the 1970's produced the first album released in the Western World using previously unheard Tibetan and Central Asia instruments.
In essence this album is all about the bringing of Asian musical instrument influences to the Westernised music industry.
What about the album title?
Yamantaka is the name given to the Tibetan god of the dead, lord of the underworld.
This recording was created using the DMM (Direct Metal Mastering) technique by Teldec. DMM is an analog audio disc mastering technique. Unlike conventional disc mastering, where the mechanical audio modulation is cut onto a lacquer-coated aluminum disc, DMM cuts straight into metal (copper). You might say "so what?", well the DMM technique is more precise, with sharper transients and better image edge definition which results in a "brighter" recording with more defined "top end" frequencies.
MICKEY HART HENRY WOLFF NANCY HENNINGS - Yamantaka
Celestial Harmonies
Cat# CEL 003
1983
USA release
Cover is in very good condition, no tears, no writing, no seam splits and the edge wear is very light.
New inner plastic sleeve
Vinyl is in very good condition, visually inspected under a white halogen light source, I can see just a couple of very light scratches/marks on either side. I then played the ENTIRE album, every single track, and there are no significant issues with surface noise or click/pop events although because the audio levels can at times are extremely low (building up in volume) you can hear some low level surface noise during these very quiet passages.
New outer protective plastic sleeve
Tracks: Yamantaka (Run time 19' 30")
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7
The Revolving Mask Of Yamantaka (Run time 16' 44")
