royal hartigan

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Blood Drum Spirit double cd produced by John Hilton and royal hartigan, Virtual Studios, Albany, N.Y. recorded and mixed by Ted Malia, Virtual Studios. with additional mixing and mastering by Tom Tedesco, Wavelength Studios, Portland, Oregon

Eve video produced by John Hilton and John Rafalak, Virtual Studios. Videography by John Rafalak, Jake Diefendorf, Wei-hua Zhang, Godwin Agbeli, Heidi Mitchem, and royal hartigan

West African Rhythms for Drumset book with cd Dan Thress editor, Dorian Romer photography, Areta Buk layout, Jack Waltrip cover design, cloth weaved by Isaac Gedzah, Andruid Kerne audio recording, additional assistance by Emily Morefield and John Riley; published by Manhattan Music/Warner Brothers, Miami, FL.

Blood Drum Spirit: Drum Languages of West Africa, African America, Native America, Central Java, and South India 1700 page book with text and music - published by University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

Adinkra symbols from Meaning of Symbols in Adinkra Cloth by Kwaku Ofori Ansa, Sankofa Publications, Hyattsville, MD.

articles 'Let Me Play My Drums' and 'The Role of the Drumset in Ghanaian Highlife', published in Percussive Notes magazine, Vol.31, No. 4., April 1993, Lawton, OK.

interview 'Playing Other People's Music' from book Sounding Off! edited by Fred Wei-han Ho and Ron Sakolsky; published by Autonomedia Press, Brooklyn, N.Y. Jim Fleming, general editor.

additional photography by Sidney Kantor, Wei-hua Zhang, Heidi Mitchem, Brooke Hunyady, Idit Kubitsky, Nancy Lane, Robert Lancefield, Tim Kao, Charles Slay, John Hilton, Robert Levin, and royal hartigan

additional videography by Wei-hua Zhang, Godwin Agbeli, Heidi Mitchem, John Schoenoff, and Mark Gawlak.


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