Eight Gigs: Tashi Dorji

Music is communication. When experimental guitarist Tashi Dorji records collaborative albums such as Expecting, an album he recorded with his partner Shane Parish, it sounds like listening in on an intimate conversation full of inside jokes. But even on Dorji’s solo acoustic records, the communication is stronger, as if he’s translating the instrument’s soul for us, the listeners. It’s beautiful, innocent and spastic. Dorji’s early influences include flamenco, classical and John Zorn. You can hear all of that in his stirring, emotional compositions. 1414 16th Street, https://tashidorji.com.