Mata Hati

For those of you who haven't forgotten **Tohpati**'s electrifying emergence as a freshman bandleader in 2010 with *'Save The Planet'*, *'Mata Hati'* will come as a most welcomed follow-up. Although six years is a lengthy gap between recordings, it is obvious that the players involved have been doing anything but resting. Powerful individual performances are subtlety interwoven into the exotic fabrics of its nine acute, ambitious and amazingly diverse musical tapestries. Featuring all the six-string acrobatics one would expect from a guitarist of **Tohpati**'s considerable scope and creative brilliance, equally on display here is his mastery of western harmony and his uncanny melodic sense as both a player and a composer.