GOZAR - the album title (also the name of a track) means "passage" in Persian. The music traces her life story from Teheran, Iran to Germany where she now lives. Moving between traditional Iranian motifs and modern experimental jazz, much of the music describes moments in Parvaresh's journey. GOZAR is a powerful, subtle and insightful album that combines the sounds and textures of contrasting worlds. Parvaresh's playing, particularly of the bass clarinet, is mature and resonant. Her use of FX with her wind instruments is innovative and enhances the range of emotions that she so successfully expresses, Above all this is an album that shows the richness that young musicians, mixing different cultural and political experiences, can bring to the music scene in Germany.