ZÖJ 2026 Album Launch Tour – 20 Sep at Lot19

A powerful cross-cultural journey through deep listening, improvisation, and Persian poetry.

ZÖJ presents their captivating fusion of neo-classical Persian music and experimental rhythms.

Launching their third album, May The Devil’s Ear Be Deaf, recorded live at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada, ZÖJ invite listeners into an intimate and powerful evening.

Drawing inspiration from a Persian saying often spoken when something beautiful is expressed aloud, the album title is used to ward off envy or misfortune, acknowledging that beauty and hope can also carry risk.

‘This album carries the breath of its making, no retakes, no disguises. Each sound was played only once, then left to live or die. To make something so fragile is a way of trusting life itself.’ – Gelareh Pour

Praise for ZÖJ

‘May this music offer a drop of solace, a gesture of care, and a call to stay human.’ – African Paper

‘I return to this album when I want to feel again that music can be a mirror of the soul.’ – Anxious Musick Magazine

‘One kneels before such beauty.’ – Inactuelles, musiques singulières

‘Exhilarating and heart-stoppingly beautiful.’ – The Music Show, ABC Radio National