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Continuing our exploration of thematic and sonic (re)interpretations of Persianite poetry and Central Asian musical traditions, which we initially engaged with during our residency at JaJaJaNeeNeeNee Radio, we worked with the radio and Voice as Landscape, to bring a live performance to Perdu, Amsterdam's poetry and experimental performance space. Weaving electronic instruments and processing with voices, sybyzgy flute, bird ocarinas, a doyra frame drum, and samples of ghazals sang in extinct languages, we invited the audience into our garden, where queer longing, heartbreak, infatuation and intoxication take them over. The performance was part of everywhere nowhere but rooted, an evening with us as buulbuul, Nombuso Mathibela & Naledi Chai, and Naomi Hettiarachchige Hubèrt. The evening was co-curated by Voice as Landscape's Alec Mateo and Lorenzo García-Andrade, and JaJaJaNeeNeeNee's Radna Rumping and Arif Kornweitz. All photographs by Yohannes Henriksson.