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• Rez's new project will feature 8 new compositions and include some of his favorite players: Rudresh Mahanthappa, Vijay Iyer, Johannes Weidenmuller, Dan Weiss and Kiran Ahluwalia. It will be out in 2009.
• Rez will be featured in Guitar Player Magazine's August 08' issue
• Rez Abbasi featured on WKCR 's New Sounds "The New Americans". Also Ravi Shankar, Zakir Hussain,
  and more.
• Check out what Vijay Iyer said about Rez in a recent blindfold test in Jazz Times. (www.jazztimes.com).
• Rez recorded with Rudresh Mahanthappa's Dakshina group which features legendary Karnatic saxophone pioneer, Kadri Gopalnath. The recording will be out on PI Records Sep. 2008. Rudresh's trio, Indo-Pak, which Rez is a member, will be releasing their premeire recording in Nov. 2008.
  
• Rez also took part in Dave Pietro's new recording called the "Chakra Suite", which will be out on Challenge Records September 2008.
  
• Kiran Ahluwalia's newest recording, Wanderlust,
  is now available from Time Square Records. Along with playing 4 different guitars, Rez produced and
  arranged the album. It recently hit top 10 on the European world music radio charts.
• Rez was recently featured in the prestigious Czech magazine - Muzikus.