Awards
Winner Excellence in Experimental Practice
APRA AMCOS & Australian Music Centre (2024)
Winner Best Persian Speaking Musician Award
Radio Neshat (2024)
#1 Album of the year
Wettest 100 (2024)
Winner Best Regional Act
Music Victoria Awards (2024)
Finalist Excellence in Experimental Practice
Art Music Awards (2020)
Finalist Performance of the year - jazz/improvised music
Art Music Awards (2020)
Finalist Best Intercultural Victorian Band
Music Victoria Awards (2020, 2021)
Press
'An electrifying sonic experience.'
Solenpole (FRA)
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'A fascinating musical conversation.'
Moorish Magazine (NLD)
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'A consoling, grounded melancholy.'
African Paper (DEU)
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'A shared communication where the listener's influence is just as valued as the storyteller's.'
Anxious musick magazine (POL)
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'A major musical discussion'
Djolo (FRA)
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'Disturbing atmospheres unfold under a solemn ambience,'
Loop (CHL)
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'Delivered with such grace it transcends any incomprehension.'
The Slow Music Movement (GBR)
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'An exceptional, boundary-pushing work.'
Twistedsoul (GBR)
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'I haven't heard anything so intense for a long time.'
Radiohoerer (DEU)
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'A specific post-world ambient jazz.'
Groove (DEU)
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'Exhilarating and heart-stoppingly beautiful.'
Andrew Ford (AUS)
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'Otherworldly, ethereal, sensitive and precise.'
Inventura (SVN)
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'A beautifully mesmerising masterpiece.'
De Subjectivisten (NLD)
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'ZÖJ are crucial to the way forward.'
Hear and Now (AUS)
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'One kneels before such beauty.'
Inactuelles, musiques singulières (FRA)
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'A beautiful piece of intense cultural experience.'
Written in music (NLD)
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'Blending neoclassical Persian music into an indefinable yet universal elsewhere.'
Music Map (ITL)
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'The sound is complex, yet accessible, tangled, yet clear, unfathomable yet understandable, difficult to describe yet completely, absolutely engaging.'
The Free Jazz Collective
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'A beautifully impressive album'
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