Awards
Winner Zulya Kamalova Award - Best song in a non-English language
Australian Folk Music Awards (2025)
Awarded
Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship (2024)
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)
Finalist 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)
'A fascinating musical conversation.'
Moorish Magazine (NLD)
'A consoling, grounded melancholy.'
African Paper (DEU)
'A shared communication where the listener's influence is just as valued as the storyteller's.'
Anxious musick magazine (POL)
'A major musical discussion'
Djolo (FRA)
'Disturbing atmospheres unfold under a solemn ambience,'
Loop (CHL)
'Delivered with such grace it transcends any incomprehension.'
The Slow Music Movement (GBR)
'An exceptional, boundary-pushing work.'
Twistedsoul (GBR)
'I haven't heard anything so intense for a long time.'
Radiohoerer (DEU)
'A specific post-world ambient jazz.'
Groove (DEU)
'Exhilarating and heart-stoppingly beautiful.'
Andrew Ford (AUS)
'Otherworldly, ethereal, sensitive and precise.'
Inventura (SVN)
'A beautifully mesmerising masterpiece.'
De Subjectivisten (NLD)
'ZÖJ are crucial to the way forward.'
Hear and Now (AUS)
'One kneels before such beauty.'
Inactuelles, musiques singulières (FRA)
'A beautiful piece of intense cultural experience.'
Written in music (NLD)
'Blending neoclassical Persian music into an indefinable yet universal elsewhere.'
Music Map (ITL)
'The sound is complex, yet accessible, tangled, yet clear, unfathomable yet understandable, difficult to describe yet completely, absolutely engaging.'
The Free Jazz Collective
'A beautifully impressive album'
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