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Midwest Record, CD Review >>
We don’t know anything about geopolitics but we do know that after the fall of Russia, the labels paid a lot of lip service to Russian rock bands who seemed to all have bad haircuts and play rock in a way that was slightly off to our ears. Sure, we gave them credit for knowing that America rocks and we had it going on, but we still didn’t care for their sound. Mahmoodi is from Iran. While our global politics knowledge is still in the same dumper it was back then, we recognize the heady stuff going on with a cat that plays 10 string guitar and has a thing for our fusion from before he was born that runs so deep that he got Billy Cobham to guest and add some Mahavishnu flavor to the set. There’s a bunch of East/East/West fusion propelling things and since fusion wasn’t as mainstream as rock, this pretty much pursues and different vibe and different tangent than the Russians of a generation ago. In fact, his world jazz rocks. Mahmoodi has some serious chops and knows how to hit the sweet spot for guitar fans.
-- by Chris Spector 01/13/08 >> go there
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