HUUUM ^{【AUT-IRN】}

HUUUM is the live project of Omid Darvish, Rojin Sharafi, and Álvaro Collao León. They merge folk-influenced Iranian vocals with free jazz, ambience, electronic beats, and impulses, creating an entirely new kind of dance music. HUUUM is synonymous with synthesis, openness, substance, and avid non-compliance.

Atypical rhythms, microtonal music, singing in multiple languages, sensitive improvisation, and the interlacing of art forms and cultures—HUUUM leads with transcendence and lands with unstoppable movement. Both defying and bonding traditions simultaneously, HUUUM is reinventing our geopolitical musical landscape via powerfully succulent vocals, deep-burrowing beats, clanging percussive effects, and ever-moody reeds.

Together, the trio tackles the question of how to find a form of expression for one’s own instrument within the sonic world of another culture (e.g., the attempt to create pieces for the Surna—a Persian wind instrument—on the Western-originated saxophone). The challenge isn’t small, nor is the outcome. The power of learning, unlearning, and relearning is a palpable tool and guiding light for the trio’s creative input and output. The result, heard and felt by the listener, is intensely satisfying. HUUUM is the living embodiment of the unknown, the re-learned, and the profoundly unapologetic—with nothing to stop it but the club’s last call.