GIANT METAL CRICKETS (of Wooden Flowers) Shares “China Doll”, New Grateful Dead cover with Oteil Burbridge (Dead & Company)
Adam C. Tenenbaum is a Northern California-based producer, composer, and experimental guitarist known for blending electronic, rock, and avant-garde sounds. He first gained recognition in the mid-2000s with house music releases later working extensively with Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead) and Dead & Company, co-producing tracks and creating sounds for their iconic “Drums & Space” segments. Tenenbaum toured with the band, performing live DJ sets alongside Hart and contributing to several of the drummer’s solo projects.
While at Hart’s Studio X, Tenenbaum teamed up with producer Michal Menert to form the project Wooden Flowers, releasing their sophomore album Goldtrails. He also leads the experimental project Giant Metal Crickets, which recently dropped its third album, explico. Tenenbaum’s versatile sound design work includes contributions to Oteil Burbridge’s A Lovely View of Heaven, Beyoncé’s 2018 Coachella performance, and various film trailers and TV shows, cementing his reputation as a boundary-pushing artist across genres.
Producer and experimental guitarist Adam C. Tenenbaum, also known as Giant Metal Crickets and one-half of Wooden Flowers with Michal Menert (Pretty Lights), has released a stunning reimagining of the Grateful Dead’s China Doll. Featuring vocals from Oteil Burbridge of Dead & Company, the collaboration came together after Tenenbaum contributed his signature textured guitars and sound design to Oteil’s 2023 album A Lovely View of Heaven.
Tenenbaum’s take on China Doll turns the haunting ballad into an ambient, otherworldly journey. With ethereal guitars, bursts of organ, brass, and broken piano notes floating over a hypnotic rhythm, the song feels like a dream in motion—dark and haunting at first but slowly shifting into something lighter and more hopeful. It’s a fresh, deeply atmospheric spin on a classic.
Make sure you check out “China Doll” on Spotify below!
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