tarot by TOUCHSTONE san francisco grateful dead TC

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"tarot: the original cast mime album: music conceived and performed by touchstone" united artists uas-5563. ------touchstone was: TOM CONSTANTEN, PAUL DRESHER, art fayer, wes steele, jim byers..... cut-out. some tape on edges. lp in excellent condition. a hugely rare grateful-dead related item.===================================================== Tom Constanten (born March 19, 1944 in Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American keyboardist, best known for playing with the Grateful Dead from 1968–1970. Known as T.C., he studied music at University of California, Berkeley, where he met Phil Lesh. He and Lesh studied composition with Luciano Berio, the Italian modernist composer, and both were influenced by Mahler. Constanten also studied piano with Mario Feninger. In 1967, after graduation, Constanten went to Europe to study with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez.[1][2] Though not yet a member of the Grateful Dead, T.C. played prepared piano on the group's second album, Anthem of the Sun. He formally joined the band in November 1968, to supplement Ron "Pigpen" McKernan's organ playing. He played keyboards on 1969's Aoxomoxoa release, as well as on the Live/Dead live album. Constanten amicably left the Grateful Dead in January 1970. While he had successfully contributed to their complex experimental music, his instrumental style, at the time, was less rock and more classical. Also, there was some feeling that he did not fit in with the Dead ethos; for example, he followed Scientology, and refused to take LSD.[3][4] In terms of recorded output, Constanten became more active in the early 1990s, releasing an album of classical sonatas, as well as two albums mixing original material with a few Dead songs, and one album (Dead Ringers) entirely composed of Dead and Bob Dylan songs. In 1994 he released an album with Jorma Kaukonen which included 11 different versions of "Embryonic Journey" taken from the studio sessions for Morning Dew. T.C. has toured several times over the last ten years. Les Kippel, founder of Relix Records, felt that Tom Constanten had a lot to say musically, and worked with him to release a series of his projects over the years — Nightfall of Diamonds (1992), Morning Dew (1993), Embryonic Journey (a 1994 project which was an outgrowth of getting Kaukonen and Constanten together for a recording of "Embryonic Journey" to be used on Morning Dew), and Grateful Dreams (2000). Constanten was a favorite of Relix Records, and can be found on many of their releases, including the Dead Delites series, the Gathering on the Mountain series, and Dead Ringers. As of 2006, Constanten plays keyboards in the current line-up of Jefferson Starship, and in 2007 appeared as a guest with Grateful Dead tribute bands Terrapin Flyer and World Within. He has also sat in with other "Bay rock" bands, including Juggling Suns and Solar Circus. He currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. He has one daughter, Clarissa Constanten and one son, Jeffrey Constanten. Clarissa plays piano and violin. He is divorced. ============================================================ Paul Dresher exemplifies the spirit of West Coast music both in the richness of his sound world as well as the inventiveness of his mind. In the tradition of Harry Partch, Conlon Nancarrow, Lou Harrison, and Bill Colvig, Paul has invented new instruments, both mechanical and electronic, each of which has expanded his musical thinking. To that he adds a background in North Indian and Balinese traditions, all of which results in music of exceptional individuality and beauty.. He's a maverick in the very best sense of the world. John Adams, Interview, 2004 [Paul Dresher has] an omnivorous sensibility that combines rock'n'roll, minimalism, Indian music and ambient sounds into a pungent and wonderfully elusive hybrid. Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 2004 The music [in Dresher's Tyrant ] embraces pungent and delicate modernism even as it teases deftly with anxious waltz figures, menacing marches, and expansive lyricism. Donald Rosenberg, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), 2006 As both a composer and performer, Paul Dresher is uniquely able to integrate different musical influences into a coherent and remarkably personal style. A polymath who makes music in an astounding variety of ways, he composes and performs experimental opera and music theater, chamber and orchestral music, and instrumental electro-acoustic music. He also creates and performs on newly invented musical instruments and collaborates each season with artists in theater, dance, and film. A 2006-07 recipient of a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in Composition, Dresher has been commissioned by the Library of Congress, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Spoleto Festival USA, the Kronos Quartet, the San Francisco Symphony, California EAR Unit, Zeitgeist, Walker Arts Center, University of Iowa, Meet the Composer, Seattle Chamber Players, Present Music, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Music America, National Flute Association, and the American Music Theater Festival. His music has been performed throughout North America, in Asia and Europe, at such venues as the New York Philharmonic, Munich State Opera, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Festival d'Automne in Paris, Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, CBC Vancouver Radio Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, Arts Summit Indonesia '95, Festival Interlink in Japan, and five New Music America Festivals. Among Dresher's many collaborators are such prominent choreographers as Margaret Jenkins, Brenda Way, Nancy Karp, Wendy Rogers, and Allyson Green. Accomplishments in 2005-06 include a week-long performance of The Tyrant, a solo chamber opera starring tenor John Duykers, on the subscription series of the Cleveland Opera; as well as an evening-long collaboration with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company entitled A Slipping Glimpse (San Francisco, May 2006). During the 2004-05 season, the Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band made its Carnegie Hall debut performing a complete program of his chamber music on the In Your Ear Festival at Zankel Hall. In addition, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra premiered his Still, Rise, Fall, Again, commissioned by the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation. Also that season saw the release on New Albion Records of Dresher's latest CD, entitled Cage Machine. Other notable accomplishments include Snow in June, a collaboration with playwright Charles Mee and director Chen Shi-Zheng, commissioned by the American Repertory Theatre; and a collaboration with former Kronos Quartet cellist Joan Jeanrenaud on his cello concerto Unequal Distemperament. In 2001 Dresher built and composed Sound Stage , a music theater work performed on a set comprised entirely of very large-scale invented musical instruments. Sound Stage was commissioned and performed with the new music ensemble Zeitgeist (with support from the Walker Art Center) and was directed by Rinde Eckert. Born in Los Angeles in 1951, Dresher earned his undergraduate degree in music from UC Berkeley and his MA in composition from UC San Diego where he studied with Robert Erickson, Roger Reynolds, Pauline Oliveros and Bernard Rands. For many years he studied music of Asia and Africa, learning Ghanaian drumming from C.K. and Kobla Ladzekpo, Hindustani classical music from Nikhil Banerjee. Dresher's recordings are available on the Lovely Music, New World (with Ned Rothenberg), CRI, Music and Arts, 0.0. Discs, BMG/Catalyst, MinMax, Starkland, and New Albion labels.