“Tracing down his childhood memories, Iran born composer and multi-instrumentalist Alireza Toghiyani recalls his first encounter with music as being extremely haptic – as the son of an instrument maker who has ever since specialized in building the Santur (Persian dulcimer) he has been surrounded by materials which were to become well balanced instruments.
Listening to his music one inevitably takes notice of his sensibility in treating instruments, extracting their most unusual and magical sounds.
His academic background and his subsequent withdrawal from the world of academia as well as his latest venture into electronics add to the versatility of his musical approaches which always seem to oscillate between intuitive play and the purest form of composition.”

Clemens Sellaoui