"I want to hear the lightshow" It has often been said that the magic of the An image of the actual sonic wave form Grateful Dead live has never been captured of each disc has been included on a multi- on disc. panel foldout. Dates and locations for each Until now. concert featured on GRAYFOLDED have When Toronto Sun Senior Music been placed precisely on these maps to editor John Sakamoto picked indicate where they occur on the discs. GRAYFOLDED as the #1 release of the No more wondering what time it is ! decade, he declared it : "stunningly beautiful ..." Aboslutely brilliant. Even casual Dead fans will be floored by this The decade-leaping GRAYFOLDED astonishing new project. Nothing is an astonishingly accurate else I heard in 1994 even comes evocation of that sublime, close. hallucinatory 'unstuck in time' Oswald retrieved from the Grateful Dead feeling one gets at a really good Vaults over 100 concert versions of this And he had merely heard the first disc Grateful Dead show. of what is now a deluxe double album most symphonic of songs. They are pains- featuring : takingly blended into something much - Gary Lambert, editor more than a live album. Grateful Dead Almanac - over 100 minutes of the Grateful Dead's most legendary music "... two Cds' worth of gorgeous It's hard to take GRAYFOLDED - a 10,000 word historical essay by sonic orgami." - Rolling Stone, musicologist Rob Bowman out of the CD tray...Oswald shoots - exclusive Dead interviews best of the year list fearlessly high voltage into his two uniquely designed navigational Grateful Frankenstein. reference devices called Time Maps. Grayfolded is built from dozens of - Milo Miles / Village Voice Dead performances, from 1968 to 1993. The concerts are woven into an unique and intricate pattern - moments span decades. This is not like any Dark Star At times the band swells to orchestra size. you've heard before. It's more But it sounds real and it rocks ! like the one you wish the Dead will play next time. It's exquisite ! - Ihor Slablicky / Rolling Stone - Tom Constanten

Since there's never before been a music release quite like GRAYFOLDED, we've "... An extended time-warped included a lot of extra info for the inquisi- psychedelic jam that is tive listener. The eleven page booklet was meticulously hallucinatory. " written by award winning musicologist - New York Times Rob Bowman. Bowman takes you through the entire history of the song. The booklet Twelve years ago the Dead invited "musical includes interviews with Jerry Garcia and assassin" John Oswald to apply his notori- Phil Lesh and technical descriptions of how ous plunderphonic production techniques the project was realized. We also have to create a celebration of a quarter of a included an exclusive Time Map for each century of the Dead's boldest exploration : disc. Dark Star.

this could be ... the greatest Grateful Dead cd ever... its that good.