Solo guitar, recorded as though the microphone were a confidant. Each piece unfolds like a question asked in a room where no one else is present, Persian ornamentation spiraling around Western harmonies, two musical traditions meeting not in compromise but in recognition. Peyghambari plays the way certain people speak: slowly, precisely, as though every phrase costs something and is worth the cost. The album is called Assumptions, and that feels right, it assumes you are listening, assumes you are patient, assumes the silence between notes is as important as what fills it.