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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