 In 1979, Dean and Dudley Evenson, founded the independent record company Soundings of the Planet in Tucson, Arizona.Over the years he has collaborated with many world class artists as a producer and musician, including Li Xiangting, master of the guqin (Chinese 7-string zither), Sergey Kuryokhin, Russian avant-garde composer and Native American elder Cha-das-ska-dum.The Dalai Lama even appears on one of his albums.