Az Samad Releases ‘sehayat dalam sedetik’, An Archival Guitar EP
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There is a particular patience required to sit with old work.
Not nostalgia, not revisionism, but the willingness to listen to who you were without rushing to correct them. For Kuala Lumpur-based guitarist, composer, and educator Az Samad, that patience finally culminates in sehayat dalam sedetik, a new instrumental acoustic guitar EP built from songs written between 2004 and 2010.
These were not leftovers. They were pieces that simply waited.
Released on 1 January 2026, sehayat dalam sedetik gathers five instrumental compositions recorded across Az’s formative years, many of them tracked during his time in Berkeley, California, between 2010 and 2011. For years, the recordings lived quietly on ageing hard drives, untouched not out of neglect but out of timing.
When Az finally returned to them, he…
