Jon Jenkins Flow CD

Jon Jenkins does superior, ambient keys, composing, and performing 11 tranceworld pieces. As Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Giles Reaves, Michael Stearns, Vidna Obmana, or Jeff Greinke would deliver, so Jenkins offers us a classic. Moody, spaced, subdued, tribal, introspective, relaxing, flowing, dream-imaged music abides within Flow. Peter Buffet and Tim Story stylings in piano portions are pleasantly evident. That Michael Shrieve-styled percussion effect appears here and there. Best comparisons on this CD would be Roach's Dreamtime Return crossed with Buffet's The Waiting. There resides a yearning and inner resolve in each track, coupled with understanding and depth of soul. Jenkins' work inspires and heals. David Helping, Jeff Pearce, and Howard Givens contribute ambient electric guitars on assorted tracks. ~ John W. Patterson

"Jon Jenkins has crafted an album deep along the Steve Roach-Brian Eno ambient axis, but Jenkins also has a melodic sensibility that lifts this music out of the drone zone. "Into A World Of Wonder" and the minimally epic "The Power/Washed Away" pulse with vaguely American Indian rhythms and the album's most potent melodies. "Night Drifting Through Black Canyon" explores pure melodic ambience with Jenkins' own thready melody working through the electric guitar textures from Jeff Pearce, while "Part Of The Solution" is a sultry, detailed excursion of morphing sound design. This is a marked improvement from the pseudo-orchestral sound of Jenkins' previous release and a welcome breath of lyricism into the often-featureless ambient zone."--Billboard Magazine, **Critic's Choice**"Floating somewhere between the quiet lyricism of Harold Budd and the expansive spacescapes of Steve Roach's Structures from Silence, Jenkins' melodies hover just at the edges, drawing you closer, asking you to listen more deeply. "Into a World of Wonder" and the minimally epic "The Power/Washed Away" pulse with vaguely Native American rhythms and the album's most potent melodies. "Night Drifting Through a Black Canyon" explores pure melodic ambience with Jenkins' own thready theme working through electric guitar textures from Jeff Pearce, while "Part of the Solution" is a sultry, detailed excursion of morphing sound design. Jenkins works with a self-limited, yet lush palette to create melodies that float on the wind and atmospheres that hang like Spanish moss. Flow remains the most underrated album from the Spotted Peccary label."--Amazon.com"Jenkins does superior work on ambient keys, composing and performing these 11 trance/world pieces. As Roach, Rich, Reaves, Stearns, Obmana, or Greinke would deliver, so Jenkins offers us a classic.Moody, spaced, subdued tribal, introspective, relaxing, flowing, dream-imaged music abides within Flow. Peter Buffet and Tim Story stylings in the piano portions are pleasantly evident. That Michael Shrieve-styled percussion effect appears here and there. Best comparisons on this CD would be Roach's "Dreamtime Return" crossed with Buffet's "The Waiting".There resides a yearning and inner resolve in each track, coupled with understanding and depth of soul. Jenkins' work inspires and heals. David Helpling, Jeff Pearce, and Howard Givens contribute ambient electric guitars on assorted tracks. "Flow" weighs in at a solid 10 on my scale of 1 to 10."--Progression Magazine"Come to where lush sounds evolve and, indeed, Flow. Jon Jenkins adorns almost 74-minutes with these 11 tracks, a tasteful melding of shapeless ambient drifts, Native American drums, and piano arrangements. Ambient electric guitar is seamlessly added to individual tunes by several contributors as well...Flow marks my first exposure to sounds from the Spotted Peccary label, and I must say I like what I hear. I'm hoisting Both Thumbs... Jon Jenkins' and friends blend of ambient liquidity has been quite personally satisfying for me."-- Ambientrance.com

Recorded at Spotted Peccary Studios, Encinitas, California.

Personnel: Jon Jenkins; David Hel