Press


“Bahhaj Taherzadeh is a singer-songwriter from Chicago who’s just put together a gorgeous EP of spare but emotionally wrenching acoustic songs called Ghostwriter. Taherzadeh, who records and performs under the name We/Or/Me, sings with a wise and slightly weary voice, strolling through delicate melodies and heartbreaking narratives reminiscent of Scottish folk artist Bert Jansch or Leonard Cohen. Taherzadeh keeps the instrumentation to a minimum, adding occasional female harmonies or a simple piano line to gently strummed guitars.”

–Robin Hilton, NPR All Songs Considered

“We/Or/Me are a wondrous group–not just for the restraint and care of their songwriting, but also for the way these songs are recorded, slow and breathing. “Tell Sarah” glows, just of itself, like fireflies in a jar. [highly recommended].”

We/Or/Me is Bahhaj Taherzadeh. He’s from Ireland but lives in Chicago. And tonight this song sounds better than “Pink Moon” (I just double-checked. It does.). It sounds better than “Astral Weeks”. I don’t know if it is better, but it’s just what I need. It’s nostalgic and sad and wiped but so happy in that place, so fondly imagining those trains that went by, those birds that circled, the things “we let slip away”.

And if we get too spacey, too lazy and distracted and dreaming, well there’s always the glockenspiel. It’s beautiful, yes, but it’s also real. It sounds like someone in a bedroom hitting their glockenspiel with a stick. It’s a real thing, rubber or cork on metal, like all those other real things that happen to us. Like that world out there in the light and the heat. Like our hands right here, this couch, our breath.”

–Sean Michaels, SaidtheGramophone.com

“We/Or/Me . . . breathes beauty and new life into the Singer Songwriter genre . . .  Some performers grow on you after years of listening (or trying to listen) and some instantly become a favourite.  The latter is the case for me and We/Or/Me when I first heard the EP entitled “Ghostwriter”.  5 tracks of hushed indie folk – sold.”

–Slowcoustic.com