Jason Bhattacharya is a multi-dimensional creative whose main focus is production, songwriting and recording. Bhattacharya has been featured on umpteen records as a session musician and producer, and creates solo works under the pseudonym Granny Smith. The past 3 years Bhattacharya has also worked in the music department for Netflix, Sony Pictures and Paramount Television Studios. 

Originally, the songs from his new EP, River of Memory, like “River of Memory ii” were recorded as a score to the Dylan Mitro short film, Ripples. In the end, Dylan used music not from these sessions for the film, so Bhattacharya wanted to find a way to share this soundtrack with the world. 

This is the first instrumental piano music he’s released, and it was all improvised while watching the film – inspired by the way a river flows naturally. The only instruments heard on the recording are an acoustic piano & a Juno Synthesizer.

The titles represent the natural flow of time and space. “Ripples” are the ebbs and flows of life and the “River of Memory” is the continuous looking back on an ever-changing self. “Pastel” is the many colors that we have in our palette to decorate the shifts as well as the way we remember them. The album concludes with “River of Memory ii” where all systems are a go and the flow is fully in motion. 

“I’m trying to make the most organic music I can make,” says Jason Bhattacharya of Granny Smith. “I don’t like to edit very much & I’m trying to put out the most honest versions of the expressions I’m creating.”