Chris Beaty is no stranger to endless variety. In fact, as Omid, the master guitarist and Monster's Ball co-composer's innova Recordings debut illustrates beautifully, Beaty's palette seems all but unlimited. Weaving gorgeous pan-national vocals, rhythmic strategies to match, and his own shimmering guitar into a seamless and gloriously iridescent panorama, Beaty, accompanied by a stellar cast, creates a irresistable strain of 21st Century exotica that transcends genre boundaries and geographic ones alike-in other words, a musical Shangra-La.