From Muriel Grossman’s Bandcamp site:
“On the surface, Tyner and the Dead appear to come from different galaxies. But listen deeply, and it becomes clear: they were orbiting the same planet.
Tyner’s playing was all about shape. He built modal infrastructure—riffs and voicings sturdy enough to ground the music, malleable enough to become anything. Weir’s unconventional approach to rhythm guitar often baffled those expecting straight rock-oriented timekeeping. Rather than driving a fixed rhythm, Weir chose choppy, off-kilter voicings that sidestepped predictability, creating cross-currents that Jerry Garcia’s solos could ride, resist, or crash into. By Weir’s own account, he lifted that sensibility directly from Tyner. Listen to his chord choices and phrasing, and the throughline is unmistakable.
Seen this way, Muriel Grossmann’s project is a continuation: tracing Tyner’s influence as it threads through Weir and onward, then using it as an invitation to explore these compositions anew. Joined by Radomir Milojkovic on guitar, Abel Boquera on Hammond B3 organ, and Uros Stamenkovic on drums, she treats these four works not as artifacts to preserve, but as invitations to explore.
“We played this music using a sort of filter,” she says, “so it sounds like when I compose, record, and perform our own music. It’s somebody else’s music, but it sounds like our music.”— Muriel Grossmann, 2025″
