Discography

Tracks written, recorded and mixed from late summer 2020 through to summer 2021. New recording methods, the introduction of drums, and more layers of music than ever before! A high energy album with meaningful lyrics, raw vocals, rich musical textures, and all thoughtfully produced.

"Dharma songs, its been a long time coming... I wrote the first track 'Come Back', a week or so after finishing Directions to Now, so in many ways it's a development of many of those themes. I loved Directions to Now and still do, but I really feel this has built upon that experience and taken it further. Dharma Songs is louder, bolder, deeper, and coming out of a time when I was granted real opportunity for contemplation. Also there's a lot more guitars!"
-J Dallos

The first single from Dharma Songs. Here Tonight fuses a tapestry of layed electric guitars, with prominant bass, and hypnotic vocals delivering lyrics for the times.

"Here Tonight was developed from a instrumental looping track I developed. I enjoyed the texture of sounds that came from the layers and I think that adding the drum machine at the end really completed the song."
-J Dallos

A collection of songs writted after relocating to Finland. Reflections upon inner and outer nature. Catch a break represents a change in the recording method used giving greater creative freedom.

"It was a shock how much longer things were taking using computer software to record and mix rather than my trusty tascam 8 track. With that increase in time came an increase in opportunity to shape the music, so it was worthwhile to produce something of higher quality, I think.

Written after a big move in my life so it's a nice marker of a nice time."
-J Dallos

First full-length album by J Dallos, Directions To Now sets the tone for much of J Dallos' future work. Investigations into the nature of self, exercises in attention, and calls to compassion. Recorded March-May 2020.

"Directions To Now really felt like an alignment of the stars for me. For the first time I really had the time and inclination to record something on the scale of an album. I'd also recently come into contact with a couple of super albums (The Empryean and Global Griot) that really deepened my connection to music, and even clarified aspects of my own songwriting to me.

After 15 years of writing songs I had the clearest conception of what I'd been writing about the whole time- it was on."
-J Dallos

The first release under the artist name J Dallos.

"First release and kind of a test run for Directions to Now. This was the first music I had the pleasure of calling upon Matt Reid to create the cover art- the start of a fruitful creative relationship that goes on through to Dharma Songs and hopefully beyond."
-J Dallos