"Go out of your way to find Midnight Sun even if you know nothing about Persian music. You will be rewarded beyond all expectation ... the drum work of Pejman Hadadi is what really gives Midnight Sun its kick.”
Aaron Howard, Rootsworld.com

"These duets are extraordinary, together they soar into wild molten riffs, and then return to earth to depict the sad reality of a people without an independent state of their own.”
W. Bloomhuff, Rhythm Magazine

"Hadadi is a technical wizard who contributes fire and a unique personality to improvisational passages."
John Payne, Los Angeles Weekly

"spectacular musicianship."
Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times

"The masterful Hadadi delivered an astonishing array of sounds."
Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times

"Pejman Hadadi is the finest Iranian percussionist in America"
William Bloomhuff, Rhythm Magazine

"Hadadi delivered a mighty tombak solo that had the whole house out of their seats and yelling"
Greg Burk, LA Weekly

“Together with Behnam Samani, Hadadi left traditional paths and they playfully created a new world of sounds. Even though the Tombaks were not explicitly called ‘talking drums’, these drums do talk in a way that one hardly finds in other musical culture.”
Stefan Franzen, Badische Zeitung, Germany

“The music making, which featured composer Pejman Hadadi, was downright bewitching. The music may have been newly composed, but at such moments, questions of "authenticity" don't seem to intrude.”
Allan Ulrich, Voice Of Dance

“Building on traditional structures and modal motifs, Alizadeh (accompanied by Pejman Hadadi on the Tombak drum) unleashed a river of music that flowed with spontaneity.”
Stephen Brookes, Washington Post

“Hadadi opened with a nuanced drum solo, out of which a soft thrun of voices built up an atmospheric rather than emphatic effect.”
Josef Woodard, Los Angeles Times

"If the television show, "Are You Hot?" had a fraction of the heat that choreographer-dancer Banafsheh Sayyad and her all female Namah Ensemble generated at Japan America Theater, the show would have been a hit. Talk about sensual: Iranian-born, locally based Sayyad, a purveyor of trance dancing and unabashed hair tossing, presented "En/trance", two hours of exotic music and dance that fused ancient forms with postmodern punch. Most numbers were accompanied by Zarbang Percussion Ensemble, led by the extraordinary Pejman Hadadi, who opened with a blistering 50-minute set.”
Los Angeles Times

“The music making of Pejman Hadadi and Javid Afsari Rad, was downright bewitching”
Allan Ulrich, Voice Of Dance, 6/02

“ZARBANG is a riveting ensemble. In the opening,  Pejman Hadadi, Reza and Behnam Samani displayed their subtle palettes of finger and palm techniques, crescendo-ing up and down and then all around. The way the three intuitively danced around each other’s styles and rhythms was trance inducing. Later, Afsari Rad joined in on Santur with beautiful solos and Afghaistan-born Hakim Ludin proceeded to dazzle the audience with a vast array of exotic percussion instruments.”
Vancouver Sun

“Playing Tombaks or goblet-shaped drums, Mehrdad Arabi, Pejman Hadadi and Behnam Samani set high standards from the beginning. The trio explored an amazing array of sounds, colors and techniques in complex rhythmic passages, hair-trigger responses to one another and their selfless joy in one another’s contributions.”
Los Angeles Times