Ever since his rise to fame as Akademi Fantasia's 2011 champion, singer-songwriter Hazama has made quite the mark as a skilled musician and hitmaker. While some tracks smoulder with emotionally charged verses and finger-plucked acoustics, others take on the compressed distortion and chunky chords of metal and hard rock. At the forefront of each effort is Hazama's distinctive voice, itself a gracefully shape-shifting presence—a quiet, mysterious rasp at one turn, boosting into the stratosphere with hot-blooded fire at the next.