Link Music Lab

Link Music Lab Pushing creativity to its practical limits while having more fun than should be legal All artists are available upon request.

Link Music Lab is a Toronto based production and artist management company that specializes in showcasing established Iranian musicians to the international scene by linking them to on par musicians in jazz, rock, blues and electronic music. Their roster include Mohsen Namjoo and Saeid Shanbehzadeh, two of the most notable and popular Iranian musicians with a dedicated fan base, as well as Mahmood Schricker, an up and coming electronic artist who transforms Persian music with the unique sound of electric setar.

10/08/2026

Join us on October 24 for the final Experimental Link Series concert of the year, bringing together master barbat player Hossein Behroozinia, Mehdi Rostami on setar, Pooyan Ranaei on Kurdish tanbur, and Bamdad Fotouhi on tombak.

Mehdi Rostami is an Iranian-Canadian musician, composer, improviser, and educator based in Toronto. His work is rooted in Persian traditional music while also exploring contemporary music, improvisation, and new ways of working with sound. As an improviser, he is interested in finding his own musical language and bringing a personal approach to traditional music.

📍 Trinity Presbyterian Church, Toronto
📅 October 24
🚪 Doors 7 PM
🎫 Tickets in bio

Video edit: Edgar Maldonado Calderon

10/06/2026

Join us on October 24 for the final Experimental Link Series concert of the year, bringing together master barbat player Hossein Behroozinia, Mehdi Rostami on setar, Pooyan Ranaei on Kurdish tanbur, and Bamdad Fotouhi on tombak.

Pooyan Ranaei is a tanbur player, vocalist, and music instructor from Sahneh, Kermanshah, Iran. He began studying the tanbur and the art of crafting tanbur and setar under the guidance of his father, Master Yahya Ranaei.

📍 Trinity Presbyterian Church, Toronto
📅 October 24
🚪 Doors 7 PM
🎫 Tickets in bio

The evening unfolds in two parts: first, an intimate improvised dialogue between Behroozinia and Rostami, followed by all four musicians coming together for a collective performance.
Video edit: Edgar Maldonado Calderon

09/22/2026

پویان رعنایی، نوازنده تنبور، خواننده و مدرس موسیقی، متولد سال ۱۳۶۶ در صحنه، کرمانشاه است. او در خانواده‌ای اهل موسیقی پرورش یافت و آموزش نوازندگی تنبور و ساخت سازهای تنبور و سه‌تار را نزد پدرش، استاد یحیی رعنایی، آغاز کرد.

پویان رعنایی در ادامه، نوازندگی تنبک را نزد زنده‌یاد استاد داریوش زرگری، کمانچه را نزد استاد علی‌اکبر شکارچی و آواز و ردیف‌های آوازی موسیقی ایرانی را نزد استاد افسانه رثایی و استاد مظفر شفیعی فرا گرفت.
Pooyan Ranaei is a tanbur player, vocalist, and music instructor, born in 1987 in Sahneh, Kermanshah, Iran. Raised in a musical family, he began studying the tanbur and the art of crafting tanbur and setar under the guidance of his father, Master Yahya Ranaei.

He later studied tombak with the late Master Dariush Zargari, kamancheh with Master Ali-Akbar Shekarchi, and Persian classical vocal music and radif with Master Afsaneh Rasaei and Master Mozaffar Shafiei.

📍 Trinity Presbyterian Church, Toronto
📅 October 24
🚪 Doors 7 PM
🎫 Tickets in bio

STRINGS OF IRANJoin us on October 24 for the final Experimental Link Series concert of the year, bringing together maste...
09/14/2026

STRINGS OF IRAN

Join us on October 24 for the final Experimental Link Series concert of the year, bringing together master barbat player Hossein Behroozinia, Mehdi Rostami on setar, Pooyan Ranaei on Kurdish tanbur, and Bamdad Fotouhi on tombak.

The evening unfolds in two parts: first, an intimate improvised dialogue between Behroozinia and Rostami, followed by all four musicians coming together for a collective performance.

Rooted in the Persian radif tradition, Strings of Iran explores the meeting of barbat, setar and Kurdish tanbur through improvisation, with tombak bringing the ensemble together rhythmically.

📍 Trinity Presbyterian Church, Toronto
📅 October 24
🚪 Doors 7 PM

🎟 Tickets available now — link in bio.

Presented by Link Music Lab as part of the Experimental Link Series. This event is funded by the generous support of the Toronto Arts Council and department of the Canadian Heritage.

08/20/2026

Èbony performing live as part of AVANT MUTEK Toronto May 30 2026, presented by Link Music Lab and MUTEK.

Èbony ÈBONY Jordan Gardner and r_od3rick are the JUNO Award winners The JUNO Awards for Electronic Album of the Year for their debut record Shades of Meridian (Turbo).
Èbony projects a waking futurist dream shaped by echoes of Detroit techno, Chicago house, South African melodies, and the rich mythology of Ancient Toronto.

Videography: Camille NG 📸
Video edits: Edgar Maldonado Calderon

08/18/2026

Arc & Texture performing live as part of AVANT MUTEK Toronto May 30 2026, presented by Link Music Lab and MUTEK.

Arc & Texture Arc & Texture brings together Toronto artists Vanese Smith (Pursuit Grooves) Vanese VJ Smith | Pursuit Grooves and Caleb Klager Caleb Blending cinematic percussion with emotive modular synthesis, they create techno that is both visceral and thought-provoking.

Visuals by: Vanese Smith

Videography: Camille NG 📸
Video edits: Edgar Maldonado Calderon

08/17/2026

Satoshi Tomiie and Kamran Sadeghi performing live as part of AVANT MUTEK Toronto, presented by Link Music Lab and MUTEK
Visuals by: Karl Skene
Music: Satoshi Tomiie and Kamran Sadeghi

Videography: Camille NG 📸
Video edits: Edgar Maldonado Calderon

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