This is pianist Shai Maestro’s second release since signing for Naive in 2025. The first, Solo: Miniatures & Tales (2025), was a personal exploration; in deliberate contrast, The Guesthouse is expansive, open and collaborative. Maestro describes the album as “my attempt to turn the creative chaos that lives in mind into one coherent artistic statement, always having a simple melody as a thread that tells the story of this collective.” Inspired by Rumi’s poem The Guesthouse, Maestro uses the idea of a guesthouse as a framework — a place with an open door where musical guests are welcome to enter and collaborate freely. The result is an album markedly different from his previous work, with a far broader musical palette. It has also pushed Maestro in new…

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