DOT

What a great record! I'm new to Jonas Reingold and have since had to buy everything that I can find that he's on! Just a supreme bass talent and a great composer. Of course the entire band is great here; something I've come to expect from the projects that he's involved with such as Kaipa and The Flower Kings. If you like modern prog or just great music, do yourself a favor and buy this.

A very satisfying offering from Jonas and crew. Light the candles and incense for this one and have the friends over for a listen.

The best effort yet from Jonas Reingold and his group. Prog's best (and busiest!) Bass player has improved his songwriting to the point where his band can be mentioned in the same sentence with his other bands (Flower Kings, Agents of Mercy, Kaipa, Fringe). Excellent CD and highly recommended!

its ok

I wasn't that Impressed by the audio cd but the DVD is awesome. This band is great

Excellent. On par with their other albums. A must for Prog lovers.

The best Karmakanic yet! Enjoy.

Karmakanic’s fifth studio album, Dot, is a progressive rock album written and arranged by leader and bass guitarist Jonas Reingold. Jonas Reingold was inspired by reading a quote from Carl Sagan’s about the picture of the Earth that Voyager1 took in 1990 just before it left our solar system. Sagan asked NASA to point Voyager's camera back to Earth to take one last picture before it was out of range. From that vantage point Earth was just a pale blue dot. “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” – Carl SaganThose poetic words from the world's best known astronomer moved Jonas Reingold to write the Karmakanic album simply entitled 'Dot'; and the album takes the listener on quite a musical voyage through it's own universe. There are sections of great simplicity with just acoustic piano and other moments where the full onslaught of churning organ, metal guitar, bass, drums and vocal give you a taste of the 'breath of God, running through the veins'. Jonas Reingold's composing skill uses these and many other textures to give scope, space and texture to the music to evoke the essence of our life on Earth as a fragment of the immensity of the universe. While the music is tightly arranged and structured Jonas Reingold leaves space for several sections of soloing by piano, flute, guitar and bass. One unique timbre that Mr. Reingold achieves is by using his two young children to sing in several parts of the piece “God the universe and everything else no one really cares about – Part I” They contribute an ethereal floating melody which provides a nice contrasts to the heavier parts that precede and follow their sections.This is a beautiful album and the best work I have heard by a Flower King alumnus.