16/11/2024
Our Kickstarter campaign to reissue a 3LP edition of the Grateful Dead/John Oswald “Ultimate Dark Star” Grayfolded is halfway there! With your help we can push this over the edge.
Not only can you pick up Grayfolded triple vinyl but you can also grab an all-over printed Skull & Roses shirt, Grayfolded skull socks, sunglasses, Dark Star Dark Roast & more….
Pass it on!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/imprec/grayfolded-3lp-the-grateful-dead-and-john-oswald
“An extended time-warped psychedelic jam that is meticulously hallucinatory.”
New York Times (Top 10 ,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
“Grayfolded is literally a hundred or so great nights rolled into one extraordinary extended high. Gorgeous sonic oragami.”
Rolling Stone (Best of the year list, 1994)
“Even casual Dead fans will be floored by this astonishing new project. Absolutely brilliant.” Toronto Sun (Album of the decade, 1994)
In 1993 Canadian composer John Oswald was invited by Phil Lesh to transform historical recordings of the Grateful 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)
