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Ease & Flow 2024 – Pavan Kanekal on tabla
Ease & Flow creates a continuous flow between JJ’s sitar melodies and Pavan’s tabla beats: relaxed yet focused, contemplative yet upbeat.
‘Hovering Mid-Air’ is a pleasing bookend to the album that harkens back to the first track, ‘Trading Places with Dragonflies.’ Overall, the album serenades summer in its abundance of flora, fauna, and sunwashed glory.
-Tracy Schoenle, former editor of Cricket Magazine
Lunar Prairie 2024 – David Van Auken on Guitar
Lunar Prairie makes a new scene: Drawing from the Fahey school of finger picking, David Van Auken’s unadorned guitar arrangements create an apt canvas for J.J. Gregg’s beautifully fluid sitar melodies, evoking a certain joy that permeates the duo’s stellar debut album, Lunar Prairie.
“The insistent bass notes of ‘Slow Rebound’ underlie melodic passages in a recording so clean that it feels as if the musicians are playing live in the room. Feels like where the prairie opens up into a forever sky….”
-Tracy Schoenle, former editor of Cricket Magazine
“Even with the sitar making it sound non-Western, there is quite an Americana feel to the music… Two men finger-picking away on a guitar and a sitar, and this seems smooth and well-spent. The music sounds very much composed and has a strong melodic touch to each of the ten pieces. Lovely stuff, I admit…”
Vital Weekly, Issue 1432
In JJ Gregg’s new album, ‘re-cycling,’ (August 2022) is an exploration of interconnectedness both sonically and in the natural world. This album features exploratory solo sitar, playful duets with tabla player Pavan Kanekal, and an experimental track that will make your head spin.
‘Underground Networks’ sounds like a bright orange sun rising on a day already alive with heat shimmering on the horizon. Elsewhere, the staccato notes of ‘surface tension’ seem to set the song apart from the traditional Indian ragas I’ve heard – a lovely surprise.
-Tracy Schoenle, former editor of Cricket Magazine
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