Grateful Dead & John Oswald - Grayfolded

Grateful Dead & John Oswald — Grayfolded

180-gram triple LP with six-panel gatefold jacket and Obi strip

Pressed at Optimal in Germany

All-over printing and time mapping on inner sleeve documenting source performances

Notes by Grammy-winning musicologist Rob Bowman

"Even casual Dead fans will be floored by this astonishing new project. Absolutely brilliant." — Toronto Sun, Album of the Decade, 1994

"Rightly acclaimed as the ultimate 'Dark Star,' the one you had always hoped the Dead would one day get around to playing." — London Daily Telegraph

"An extended time-warped psychedelic jam that is meticulously hallucinatory." — New York Times

In 1993 Canadian composer John Oswald was invited by Phil Lesh to transform historical recordings of the Dead into something new, along the lines of what they had attempted in their Anthem of the Sun album. Oswald chose to focus on the Dead's "Dark Star," which, over the course of a quarter century, they had expanded and transformed in myriad ways in live performances.

Oswald was given access to the Vaults, where over the course of a month, with the guidance of the Dead's resident archivist Dick Latvala, he collected 105 performances, which through the following year he formed, folded, fondled, and finessed into a kaleidoscopic unstuck-in-time documentary of the Grateful Dead in some of their most psychedelic, symphonic, and rocking excursions — a singular 110-minute fantasy performance.

Grayfolded was originally released in 1994 in between Dick's Picks Volume 1 (1993) and Dick's Picks Volume 2 (1995).

 

 

LP 1 Side A

1. Transitive Axis

2. Novature (Formless Nights Fall)

3. Pouring Velvet

4. In Revolving

LP 1 Side B

1. Transitive Axis

2. Ash Light

3. Clouds Cast

4. Throu...

LP 2 Side A

1. Transitive Axis

2. ...ough

3. Fault Forces

4. The Phil Zone

5. La Estrella

LP 2 Side B

1. Transitive Axis / Mirror Ashes

2. Oscura

3. Recedes (while we can)

4. Transilience

5. 73rd Star Bridge Sonata

LP 3 Side A

1. Mirror Ashes

2. Cease Tone Beam

3. Foldback Time

LP 3 Side B

1. Mirror Ashes

2. Dark Matter Problem / Every Leaf is Turning

3. The Speed of Space

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