It’s easy to make things sound complex. What’s much harder is to make complexity sound easy. In Imagined Frequencies, his latest recording scheduled for release on September 8, Los Angeles-based guitarist and composer Vahagni weaves in both, his playing and his compositions, strands from several styles and traditions — flamenco and classical music, Armenian music and jazz. Yet the overall result has a rare, easy-on-the ear quality that belies its many influences. Imagined Frequencies, which features a program of original songs and one strikingly fresh arrangement of the Armenian traditional song “Hov Arek Sarer Jan” interpreted by Afro-Spanish singer Buika, who also appears in the video, covers a broad musical ground, subtly and elegantly. It is his third album as a leader and, says Vahagni, it’s a true snapshot of himself as composer, player and producer. In Imagined Frequencies, Vahagni distills all his musical and cultural influences into a soulful yet elegantly uncomplicated sound. “It’s just music, ” he says. “I don’t want listeners to think about what makes this fusion. It’s just music. As long as you enjoy it, you can call it anything you want to.”