ZSOLT SŐRÉS AHAD: AHAD'S MASTERS GARDEN III. (2007-2009): THE HARMONIAN BLUES - review by FRANS DE WAARD in VITAL WEEKLY. = No. 772, Week 11 (March 15, 2011)
ZSOLT SŐRÉS AHAD - AHAD'S MASTERS GARDEN III (2CD by Audio Tong / Fourth Dimension ) ...The other disc is by Zsolt Sőrés Ahad , from Hungary, who recently (Vital Weekly 741) was reviewed with a disc he made for the Ronda label, together with én and Q. This new double CD is subtitled ' Ahad's Masters Garden III (2007-2009): The Harmonian Blues ', and as a further subtitle 'music for film, theatre and dance'. Ahad is known from the lively improvised music scene from Hungary, and he plays many instruments, such violin, voice, guitar, tampuram modified sitar, a low-fi optical theremin, zither, percussion etc. Furthermore he gets help from various people on similar instruments. The two discs are quite apart I think. The six pieces on the first disc all seem to delve from the great goldmine of minimal music meeting rock music. Electric violins, hammering guitars and percussion, all in strict minimal tempo, but also with sound ornaments loosely improvised around it. ...