Om Land

I love this album. Besides just being extraordinarily beautiful, the nuanced instrumentation that backs the repetitive sound of OM puts the listener in a meditative trance. I am a yoga teacher and I find this to be a perfect accompaniment for my yin classes. It creates the resonant spaciousness needed for entering the yin state. I often have students come up to me after class and ask, "what was that beautiful music and where can I buy it"

Om land is everything you'd hope for in a new age album. Its Eastern influences invoke mystique, the female vocals seem to call from the heavens, and hypnotic percussion takes you deeper still. It's easy to slip into a relaxing meditation with it, and I'm gifting it to my acupuncturist/massage therapist to replace some of the blasé music she plays sometimes (it's not her fault) :) If you're looking for some staple new age music, Om Land is the album for you.

This album has won my heart and the hearts of my clients. Not only can I not seem to stop playing it, but I have had extremely grounding and heart opening session with my body work and yoga clients. I have been playing for savasana. It feels as if you are being transported to another time and place, where there is nothing to fear or stress about. Melodic, Intoxicatating and the guitar pieces are perfectly timed. I am not a musician, but I am a teacher, who has been using this to help facilitate healing of others. Beautifully done David, once agan!

There's a lot of layers here. Beautiful guitars, spiritually engaging chanting and colorful percussion. Even a casual listen evokes a positive response; used in meditation, yoga or relaxation, the result can be quite profound. The album sets out to create sound healing, and in the process also provides a delightful listening experience. I found myself humming the chant melodies long after my first listen!

This is a really fine album. Multiply talented David Vito Gregoli brings together the best elements of Eastern and Western music for this outstanding collaboration with Grammy winner Ricky Kej (2015 “Best New Age Album” with Wouter Kellerman for “Winds of Samsara”), percussionist Christo Pellani, and singer Kimberly Haynes. It begins and ends with OM. Surrounding the OM are lovely and tasteful bits of instrumentation, percussion, and voices. Vito’s ever-so-slightly edgy guitar (classical on the first track, steel on the second track, dobro on the third) adds little stings of interesting commentary to Ricky’s beautiful strings and synth pads. Christo’s percussion beats right along with one’s heart, and Kimberly’s voices add a gently ecstatic exclamation point. While each track has similar source material, each is subtly different, building gradually over their 22 or so minutes, unfolding in colors and layers like a sunrise, worth hearing over and over again, discovering something new each time. It’s on my “favorites” playlist, and should be on yours! Rebekkah Hilgraves Host, At Water’s Edge

This is easily David’s best work and that is saying quite a lot! Brilliant!

In this hectic world, is it a wonderful blessing to drift away while relaxing, meditating or just enjoying David Vito Gregoli's beautiful new album "Om Land." "Om Land" is very healing and soothing. And if you're into chanting (I am) it's fun to chant "Om"along with Vito as one enters into the blissful meditative state of mind induced by his beautiful compositions. "Om Land" is a tool for many healers to use in their practice. Highly recommended.

Best album ever in my opinion....totally love it Im serious, this is truly stunning, i can't stop playing it and i am delighted to see it enter that high :) I have to also say the guitar in this is blissful.

"Om Land" is award-winning producer/guitarist/multi-instrumentalist David Vito Gregoli’s musical meditation on the divine sound. In collaboration with Grammy-winning artist and producer Ricky Kej, percussionist and sound healer Christo Pellani, and singer/songwriter Kimberly Haynes, the project was started with the Om sound as its core, then adding the ambient bed and percussion. From there, Gregoli said, “Soloing over it was effortless because the resonance of Om is a calming inspiration. It all flowed very easily.” The recording is in three parts: “Saguna,” “Nirguna,” and “Pranava,” with each segment running about twenty-two minutes. The music is intended for yoga, meditation, massage, healing and relaxation and really wasn’t created as musical entertainment. Gregoli, a Buddhist who has practiced yoga and meditation for many years, appears on a variety of guitars, dobro, esraj, keyboards, voice, bass, piano, and percussion (impressive!). Ricky Kej adds strings, keyboard, and the Om chants; Kimberly Haynes provides vocals on “Nirguna”; and Christo Pellani plays percussion. "Om Land" was inspired by both the Om mantra and the yantra symbol and has its roots in the artists’ own spiritual philosophy. Gregoli explains: “Without beginning or end, Om embraces all that exists.... We started with that very personal and yet universal sound and then layered on our musical interpretations.” "Om Land" begins with “Saguna,” which means “with attributes.” “Saguna Brahman” implies that God has a name, form and other attributes. For this track, Gregoli chose a nylon-string guitar for its soft and gentle tone. Combined with the light percussion, strings, and Om chanting, this track is quietly hypnotic and very peaceful. “Nirguna” translates as “without attributes” and “Nirguna Brahman” implies that God as the Absolute Spirit and Pure Consciousness has no name, form or attributes. For this track, Gregoli chose a dobro, an instrument often used in country music and similar to the Indian lap-steel guitar. The piece is a bit darker in tone and somewhat mysterious, and Haynes’ voice adds an exotic contrast to Kej’s earthy chants. “Pranava” means “cosmic sound” or “Om” - the sound that everything in all of existence makes if one hears it all at once. It is said that Om comes the closest of all sounds to what this hum of the universe is. For this piece, Gregoli uses a finger-style acoustic guitar that gives the music a special voice that is both grounding and ethereal. This album is both beautiful and extremely well done!

In the follow up to his multi-award nominated album “Primordial Sonics,” guitarist/producer David Vito Gregoli revisits the familiar landscape of world fusion music, but with a slightly different focus this time. On “Om Land,” Vito, as he is best known, delves deeply into one of the most primordial vibrations of all – the sound of Om. Finding a perfect collaborator in GRAMMY winning recording artist/producer Ricky Kej of India, along with singer Kimberly Haynes and percussionist/sound healer Christo Pellani, the album is a musical meditation on the divine sound. The album contains three extended tracks that are slightly over 20 minutes each. The first one is entitled “Saguna.” It begins, as do all of them, with the chanting of Om and deep Indian-style drone background. Over that is layered Vito’s nylon string acoustic guitar playing both Eastern and Western-influenced fills. The album exhibits a yin-yang balance between spaciousness and density. The background is densely layered with its chanting that ebbs and flows, the continuous drone sounds – both Eastern-style and sustained synthesizers, and bass notes. The spaciousness is in the guitar parts, which are more minimalistic and used sparingly in the mix. As the song evolves, percussion and synthesizer sounds are added. Among the highlights on the second track are Kimberly’s vocals, which add an ethereal air that is truly transcendental as they blend with the chanted Om vocals. The third track, entitled “Pravana,” features Vito’s fingerstyle steel string acoustic as the solo instrument. He also plays bass, hand drums, piano, synths, and esraj on all the tracks. While there is similar style to the three tracks, anchored by the Om chant, each one also has its unique characteristics that distinguish it, and I appreciated the subtle vocal and instrumental variations that drifted in and out creating musical interest, but not distracting from the meditative ambience. The music on “Om Land” is extremely meditative. This is not made for entertainment as most music is – perhaps the word “entrainment” would be more appropriate. Another thing I liked about the album is that one can listen to it in its entirety or just tune into one track for a 20-minute spiritual recharge. “Om Land” is a deep and powerful listening experience that can take one beyond their normal waking consciousness to an attunement with a primordial and universal vibration. And that’s certainly something we could use more of in today’s world.