Electronic music producer Homayoun Behi, also known as Ewan, has built his musical identity through a combination of Persian musical roots, electronic influences, and personal experiences. His album Passenger brings those elements together while documenting one of the most unpredictable periods of his life.
Behi’s relationship with music began long before electronic production entered the picture. At the age of 12, he started playing traditional Persian folk violin before moving into classical training and stage performances during his teenage years.
Everything changed when he heard Psy-Trance at the age of 16.
The freedom and energy of the genre introduced him to an entirely different musical world. He began exploring production through FL Studio and Cubase and later studied sound design in Tehran. Although he remained known primarily as a violinist for years, by 2020 he had decided to focus on establishing himself as an electronic music producer.
His current sound still carries traces of every stage of that journey. Eastern musical influences sit alongside Western electronic production, while synthesizers associated with the trance music of the 2000s remain central to his work even in 2026.
Rather than chasing a completely new sound simply because trends change, Behi continues to work with the sounds that originally connected him to electronic music. His productions move through Melodic Techno, Trance, and Organic House while retaining that nostalgic character.
An Album Created in Unpredictable Circumstances
Passenger began taking shape after Behi arrived in the UK in April 2023 to seek asylum.
While staying at the Royal Hotel in Kettering, he continued making music despite having very limited resources. His main production setup consisted of an old laptop that had been gifted to him. One track, appropriately titled I Arrived, was created entirely on his mobile phone.
The circumstances surrounding the project continued to change.
After being relocated by the Home Office from Kettering to Lancaster, Behi kept producing. Six months into his time in Lancaster, Café De Anatolia accepted his track The Beginning. The acceptance was particularly meaningful because six of his previous submissions had been rejected.
The Beginning was released and eventually became the opening track of Passenger.
At that point, Behi made a decision: rather than continuing with individual releases, he wanted to complete a full album. He stopped releasing singles and concentrated on Passenger.
Then the laptop he had been relying on broke down completely.
For several weeks, he was left without a computer, adding another interruption to a project already being created amid relocation and uncertainty.
Yet those circumstances ultimately became inseparable from the meaning of the album.
Creating Without Controlling the Outcome
Behind Passenger is a philosophy Behi developed through his experiences: we may control approximately half of what happens in our lives, but the other half remains unpredictable.
That belief became part of his production process.
Instead of beginning each session with a predetermined emotion or trying to force a track toward a specific result, Behi allowed the music to develop according to his state of mind at that particular moment.
There was no requirement for a track to sound happy or sad. There was no attempt to predict exactly where each composition would end.
For him, making Passenger became an exercise in staying in the present.
That is also the feeling he hopes listeners take from the album. Rather than spending life constantly planning for tomorrow or next year, Behi wants the project to encourage acceptance of uncertainty and greater attention to what is happening now.
Finding a Home With Café De Anatolia
The relationship with Café De Anatolia became another important part of the Passenger story.
The label, known internationally within the Organic House scene, released the album and helped bring greater visibility to the project. For Behi, the collaboration demonstrates the role that labels and industry relationships can play in an artist’s development.
It also came after repeated rejection, making the eventual collaboration particularly significant.
Behi is equally aware of the practical difficulties facing artists trying to establish themselves in today’s electronic music industry. He identifies music sales, streaming monetization, opportunities for live performances, and obtaining suitable performance equipment as some of the biggest challenges.
Despite those obstacles, his advice to emerging producers is uncomplicated:
“Just be yourself.”
It is a short statement, but one that closely reflects his own approach. Asked what separates Passenger from his previous work, his answer follows the same philosophy: “I am simply myself.”
The Journey Continues
There are no confirmed announcements yet regarding Behi’s next release or performance plans. When something is ready, he intends to share it through his social media.
Perhaps that uncertainty is appropriate.
After all, Passenger was built around the idea that the next destination cannot always be planned.
From Persian folk violin and classical performances to Psy-Trance, sound design, mobile-phone production, an old laptop, relocation, rejection, and eventually an album released with Café De Anatolia, Behi’s path has rarely followed a straight line.
Passenger captures that reality.
Instead of attempting to control every destination, Homayoun Behi has made the journey itself part of the music.
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