22 Facts About Kavus Torabi

Kavus Torabi was born on 5 December 1971 and is a British-Iranian musician, composer, record label owner and radio broadcaster.

Kavus Torabi leads his own group Knifeworld and is a member of Guapo and the Utopia Strong.

Kavus Torabi was born on 5 December 1971 in Tehran, Iran to an Iranian father and an English mother.

Kavus Torabi's family moved to Plymouth, UK, when he was eighteen months old; originally planning to return once his father had made sufficient money, but ending up settling permanently following the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran.

Kavus Torabi remembers that his family were not particularly musical but that he himself was interested in music from an early age.

Kavus Torabi taught himself music by inventing his own form of notation and using it to score out the theme from CHIPS.

In 1994, Kavus Torabi reunited with Chudley, who had been playing in a band called Squid Squad since the previous year.

Since the mid-1990s Kavus Torabi had had a close working relationship with Tim Smith, the lead singer and songwriter for Cardiacs, who produced the majority of The Monsoon Bassoon's recordings.

Kavus Torabi featured on Cardiacs' 2007 single, "Ditzy Scene", for which he wrote the lyrics.

Kavus Torabi contributed to recordings for a subsequent album tentatively titled LSD which remains unreleased.

Kavus Torabi has toured extensively with the band, and has co-written all albums since 2013.

Kavus Torabi started the label Believers Roast in 2009, initially as a platform to release his own music, however since the release of 2010's The Leader Of The Starry Skies it has released music Kavus Torabi feels particularly strongly about, including The Gasman, Thumpermonkey and Redbus Noface.

Between 2010 and 2018 Kavus Torabi co-presented "The Interesting Alternative Show" with former snooker player Steve Davis on Brentwood radio station Phoenix FM.

Since the breakup of The Monsoon Bassoon, Kavus Torabi has maintained an ongoing musical relationship with Dan Chudley, resulting in several other projects.

Kavus Torabi co-wrote and produced an album with Spider in 2003, but the project was shelved in the wake of the Pogues' reunion that year.

Kavus Torabi has subsequently expressed an interest in releasing the album on his own Believers Roast label.

Kavus Torabi is a member of Admirals Hard, an occasional "sea-shanty supergroup" made up of members of London math-rock bands and avant-garde folk groups and fronted by singer Andy Carne.

Kavus Torabi plays mandolin and guitar for the group.

Kavus Torabi played guitar with Chrome Hoof between 2009 and 2010.

Kavus Torabi is reluctant to be pegged as a particular stylist, and his music has always drawn on a wide variety of influences.

Kavus Torabi's compositions are often typically dense, polyrhythmic and based in the lydian mode.

One of Kavus Torabi's most cherished memories is of being given a satchel by BBC broadcaster and newsreader Fiona Bruce.