Two is Farzad Golpaygani's 2nd album, though due some problems with "Ershad!" he couldn't release it officially, you can visit his website http://www.farzadonline.com and buy the album online. And now here we have a review after listening bunch of times to the tunes. First of all I want to say all of this review is my personal idea about this album and there's no bashings in here. So don't flame me! (Winks!)
The album contains 11 tracks and like farzad's previous album (entitled ONE as some of you might know) all the tracks has specific numbers instead of names. Actually I am not a big fan of this kind of naming but this is just his style, farzad doesn't like to have names for his tracks, so the listener doesn't get a biased feeling toward the name of the song. So we must live
with that.
In comparison to his last album, "One" there's less elements of Persian music, (I am not a big fan of using Persian instruments with rock music instruments. so I am kind of glad to hearing less and less Persian elements in this album) though eastern themes are present and they're quite tasteful, technical-wise, Farzad rips in this album, you can hear his guitar playing ability in lots of moments of the album, however, I think in some places he plays a little bit sloppy, but I'm ok with that. As a guitarist myself I always like to push myself ahead and trying to play harder stuff, and I think that's the direction that farzad took too. So you have a balance between more melodic/fusion type tunes and more shreddy tunes with lots of influence from players like Yngwie J. Malmsteen (Specially in track number7)