ZÖJ _ GIVE WATER TO BIRDS

ZÖJ returns with Give Water to Birds—an intimate Deep Listening ritual of music, poetry and quiet intensity. 1 April, 7pm.

ZÖJ returns with an intimate Deep Listening experience centered on Give Water to Birds, their hauntingly beautiful second album. Anchored by Gelareh Pour’s soul-stirring vocals and mastery of the khamancheh and qeychak alto, together with Brian O’Dwyer’s nuanced percussion, this album now unfolds further through the delicate guitar of Brett Langsford. His presence doesn’t just expand the soundscape - it subtly reshapes it, “shifting the light” and offering “new textures to ZÖJ’s intricate, intuitive world”.

Recorded live with minimal intervention, the album captures an ambient bird chorus that drifted into the studio - an unplanned yet perfect companion to the trio’s quiet, immersive sound. The result is a space between absence and presence, a sonic fabric that “holds both silence and sound, absence and presence, the fleeting and the enduring”.

•“ZÖJ’s music is truly unique - it evokes emotions as deep and complex as sorrow, sadness, and hope. It invites introspection…”- ZÖJ

•“Following a sold-out show in 2023… their connection is nothing short of magical, radiating with quiet intensity and a shared sense of purpose”- Melbourne Recital Centre

•“Their second album… is an expansion, a deepening. Here, guitarist Brett Langsford enters the space not as an addition but as a shifting of light”- Platform Arts

Join us at 7pm, doors open at 6.30 pm on 1 April 2026; for an evening that is not just performance - but a listening ritual. Let the intertwining of music, poetry, silence, and presence carry you into a quiet reckoning.