World Music, Andrew Cyrille

To Hear The World In A Grain Of Sand documents a concert given on October 19, 1985 at the Donaueschinger Musiktage, the contemporary music festival at Donaueschingen, by an ensemble billed as World Music with drummer Andrew Cyrille. It was produced by Joachim-Ernst Berendt in collaboration with Südwestfunk Baden-Baden and issued by Soul Note in 1986. The four pieces were written by four different members of the band, and the instruments on stage, from tabla and sarod to bandoneon, steel drum and marimba, show how wide a net the project cast. Berendt's liner notes take the title of the longest composition as the motto of the whole concert.

Cyrille plays drums and percussion in a large group that includes Bernd Konrad on tenor saxophone, Connie Bauer on trombone, Dom Um Romão on percussion, Pandit Prakash Maharaj on tabla and Luis Di Matteo on bandoneon, with others on reeds, vibraphone and marimba, steel drum, sarod and bass. Norbert Klövekorn engineered the recording with Werner Wunderlich, and the mix was made by Gabi Kemper, Berendt and Klövekorn. The concert opens with Hinglaj by Prakash Maharaj, at over twelve minutes, and continues with Bauer's Six Rivers, about nine. Konrad's title piece is the centre of the record at almost seventeen minutes, and Romão's Fire Fly, under eight, closes it. Giovanni Bonandrini was executive producer for the label.

This is the Soul Note CD 121128-2 of the album first released in 1986 as SN 1128, with the four pieces of the Donaueschingen concert.