Revolving Windows. The Home of Symphony Triteleia Laxa and Mark Dean's Caldera
Greetings and welcome to Revolving Windows. The Home of Symphony Triteleia Laxa and Mark Dean's Caldera. The 7th single by STL is available now. It's called Remember Yourself. It captures the last epic 18 hours of our 15.5 years together. A fitting salute to this noble wise king. Here, you can listen to & purchase all singles. You can also see lyrics, liner notes, one-sheets and full reviews on the Press Page, and see video posts of Yours Truly, as well live vids of MDC at AEP. You are welcome to join here for occasional updates as they develop.
Cheers,
Mark Dean
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Excerpts of Stories In Progress
Excerpts of Stories in Progress draws from pages and memories in passing of the various imagination’s animations as they occurred at the time, with little if any frame of reference at times but nonetheless in its purest form.
The body of work on this is so enormous that, I can’t very well quantify it, much less try to fit it into the confines of a song or even my collections of unreleased work. I wouldn’t even know where to begin. So I grab these snapshots and try to capture more of the feeling of the experience rather than the specific details of the backstory, in hopes that the patterns of the design might translate to anybody else’s astonishing journeys as well.
Excerpts of Stories in Progress is the title of this conceptual project. It’s a series of singles being released by Symphony Triteleia Laxa. The inspiration stems from the idea that alongside the somewhat “louder day” works recorded over the last 10 years that are being finished (Mixed and mastered) for release, are companion singles called “Besides”. These are songs currently in development and are a bit more experimental in their process. These songs can be more likely to employ the use of the mandocello as the first instrument to write with. Toy piano sometimes joins in. My sister’s toy piano was the first instrument I ever played. Newer techniques and approaches to the process of capturing music these days.
Symphony Triteleia Laxa Bio
Symphony Triteleia Laxa is the music works of multi-instrumentalist, (guitars, drums, bass, mandocello, toy piano, organ, and vocals.) composer and producer, Mark Dean. Triteleia Laxa is also a purple flower native to Northern California that grows in the hundreds of thousands on the land where most of the music Mark Dean created and recorded took place to date.
Mark Dean played out live in the California Bay Area at an early age with original music. He then moved into working as a session player for the various clients of the recording studios he built and operated in his 20s and 30s. The majority of these were primarily songwriters and solo artists who had no band. Mark played on and/or produced over 500 projects for a wide spectrum of the same throughout the 90s and 2000s. As an independent, Mark founded Amethyst Edge Productions in 2004, releasing its official work with author, journalist, and progressive rock recording artist Tim Morse for the debut CD entitled “Transformation” in 2005. Tim gave Mark a generous license as a multi-instrumentalist session performer, co-writer, and producer. The album received favorable reviews from journalists and influential musicians in the prog-rock community alike. Mark Dean has continued to assist Tim Morse for over 16 years. “Faithscience” in 2012, “Three” in 2018, and reappearing in “The Archaeology Project” in 2020.
2011 saw Mark’s first solo release at AEP. “No Man is an Island” by Mark Dean’s Caldera. This work has since been absorbed into the Triteleia Laxa embodiment. Here, Mark Dean performs all functions from conception to creation. All instrumentation, guitars, drums, bass, piano, organ, and vocals as well as engineering, and production.
Hard Rock Heaven describes the music on the album as follows:
“The album defies genre and classification, blending many old and new school metal influences with a smattering of progressive elements and a touch of atmospheric/ethereal tones. … The album takes the listener from soft atmospheric passages to intense metal without pretending to be either. Intense and powerful rock blended with prog elements, strong lyrics, and an ever-present sense of melody make this album highly recommended. Artistic expression at its purest …”
In 2020, Mark said farewell to the rooms and walls of the AEP facility in Northern California, relocated to the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area and put together his new home and new studio. 2021 marked the 10 year anniversary of “No Man is an Island” by Mark Dean’s Caldera. He is currently working on music for Symphony Triteleia Laxa, including recordings beginning from 2012, and onwards up to the new works being created in 2021- 2024.