Musical Road to WOMEX 2026 – ZÖJ

Gelareh Pour and Brian O’Dwyer build each show live, on the spot, from a kamancheh, a voice, and a drum kit. Nine years into the project, that’s made them genuinely hard to predict, even for themselves. Pour grew up in Iran, where the path to a singing career ran through very narrow lanes for a woman; she carried that instrument and that history with her to Australia, where she met O’Dwyer, a…