I've decided to make this blog the last writeup here on myspace but also a catalogue of all the reviews I have gotten so far. I will update this as they come in!

The first four are from Gayle Brogan, who runs the awesome Scottish mailorder Boa Melody Bar.

Vinyl Sketches
'One of the best things about running the mailorder is when you order in a release by an artist you've never heard of on a label you normally enjoy, put on the cd and go ... wow! This is one of those releases. 6 pieces of short piano abstracts - with delayed notes cascading like snow flurries in sunshine. Just lovely.'

Sonar Love Songs
'Another lovely release from Shoeb Ahmad - guitar textures delayed / reverbed to the nth degree drifting towards the horizon, sometimes sounding like a guitar, with elongated notes extending ever outwards and sometimes like a ghostly shadow of the sound. Gorgeous.'

Mammoth/Deer split w/ ManKilled
'6 tracks from Canberra's Mankilled - slow bass heavy brutal grind, a direct contrast to Ahmad's ethereal drift. There are some tracks of time-suspending reverbed guitar wash similar to the Cook an Egg release and also a couple of moon orbitting songs with vocals courtesy of Wendi Graham. Again, gorgeous stuff.'

Pieno - Prepared
'Nom de plume of Shoeb Ahmad who also runs the Hello Square record label and has released some very fine discs under his own name. 3 tracks of prepared guitar with some post-processing by Shoeb, Lawrence English and M. Rosner. Track one pairs singing tones with ominous rustles; the second strands of guitar strings woven into a celestial ringing; lastly submerged melodies reel in a submarinal swoon. Gorgeous.'

This one is for my collab track on Scott Da Ros' album of 2006 'One Kind Of Dead End'. It was written by Aaron Newell @ CokeMachineGlow.

Dilshad And Tohti By A Frozen Lake
'Dilshad and Tohti by a Frozen Lake" is easily the most remarkable thing on One Kind of Dead End. Da Ros (and cohort Shoeb Ahmad) puts his head down, stretches out eerie, icy -- ok, fuck it -- "glacial" strings, and, at intervals, gently crumbles drum fills underneath them, uncovering the missing link between Kid A and Ágætis Byrjun by way of Eluvium. ... it's also one of the most beautiful musical moments I've heard all year...'

The next two are from Frans De Waard's long running Vital Weekly.

Mixed Doubles
'Lots of Australians in this particular weekly, and Shoeb Ahmad is a new name for me. He has had two 3" releases on Sound & Fury an Wilting Flower before, but these are on his own Hellos Quarerecordings. Nine pieces are to be found on 'Mixed Doubles', four which are remixes by people who are likewise new to me, except Prettyboy Crossover. At the start are the five original pieces by Ahmad, which shows his love for drone rock, but captured and over powered in the realm of the computer. We hear sustaining sounds of processed guitars, feeding through what are no doubt plug ins, kind alike something Willits does (see elsewhere), but less refined. Nice it certainly is.'

Mammoth/Deer split w/ ManKilled
'...Shoeb Ahmad has five pieces here, which he calls 'shoegazey pop'. Much alike the previous five pieces, but it seems that he uses a bit more computerized processings here, making things a bit more grainy and low resolution like. Rhythm is also used here to a wider extent, making it indeed a bit pop like, and the overall atmosphere is pointed downward, to the shoes, or inward to the self. Nice stuff all around, certainly when these two don't seem to match very well.'

This one was written by Scott McKeating in Issue 12 of UK's Rock-A-Rolla Magazine