New album review! “Prashant Aswani’s latest album Sonically Speaking features a rich set of melodic instrumental rock fusion songs that not only show his strengths as a guitarist and composer, but as a producer and arranger as well. The album is full of exceptional playing by both Aswani, and the lineup of great musicians he has brought along to support him…”
Prashant Aswani has quite an identifiable style and tone, his music is a Fusion of Rock and Jazz and on his latest album ‘Sonically Speaking’ Prashant has even included elements of Indian music with the use of Tabla played by Abijhit Banerjee which are very prominent on the reflective and moody opening track ‘Stephanie’, quite a departure from the rocking ‘Seven’ that opened his last album ‘Revelation: Fully Loaded’.
Prashant has put together a solid band for this album with Rhonda Smith on Bass, Joey Heredia on Drums and guest solos from Bret Garsed and Rob Caggiano of Anthrax and also a band called ‘The Damned Things’ also with with Scott Ian. Bret plays the first solo on the 2nd track of the album ‘Drive’ which is a great mid tempo rocker that will have you immediately nodding your head. Aside from being a virtuosic solo guitar player Prashant is a really tight rhythm player and it is worth listening to tracks like this a few times ignoring the main lead guitar to hear how impressive the backing tracks are.
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