Love, Jam, Remember is the first album from Vermont and New York-based kirtan jam band Jam Dass. The tracks are written by guitarist/vocalist Michael Levin,  and many of the songs on the album are influenced by his experiences and travels in India and throughout the world.  The songs range from tradtitional all-Sanskrit chants like the always-first “Ganesha,” (every’one’s favorite elephant-headed deity) and the hard-driving “Shivo Hum” (‘I am Shiva’) to English-Sanskrit hybrids like “Everything” (from a text Gandhi felt was the most sacred) and “In the Chit Sabha” (which tells the story of Shiva’s Dance of Bliss).

The album features an eclectic mix of traditional kirtan instruments, like harmonium and tanpura, and contemporary rock instruments like kit drums, keyboards, and electric guitars and bass. The band includes Melissa Rose on vocals, Jeff Hamilton on keyboards, David Walker on bass, Steve Fox on drums, and guest appearances by Jason Lynn on steel guitar, Eric Maring on tabla, and Yatziv Caspi on percussion. It was recorded and mixed by Zac Primrose of Primrose Productions in Pownal, VT and mastered by Steve Fox, Foxy Music, Boulder CO.

It took a long time to produce this album, through time and space, deaths, COVID, births, and all the craziness and changes life can provide. We’re delighted to finally be able to make this offering and do so with the deepest love, humility, and gratitude.