Product DescriptionThere's nowhere to hide. Samsara is reminiscent of ECM label jazz recordings - spacious, warm, and intensely honest. A departure from his two previous albums - critically acclaimed Come To Me and Reincarnation, fully produced electric world jazz albums with turntablists, spoken word, strings, horns and lots of studio know-how behind the leader's acoustic guitar. Switching gears on Samsara, Gregory James has come back to the basics with a quartet and very little, if any, studio effects. Raw tracks and real playing. Captured with beautiful 'invisible' production by Cookie Marenco's OTR Studios in the Bay Area.