One of the magnificent things about music is its ability to help us travel. This voyage can be to another place, or another time. In the case of  "Zaman"  — the creative compositions of Ofer Ziv and Lee Scott — music travels between cultures, as well as from past into future, an appropriate topic for an album named after the Hebrew word for “time.” The past of  "Zaman" is its historically-rooted melodies and acoustic instruments. The present of  "Zaman" is the contemporary nature its compositional process, distilling the best from advances in musical technology. Zaman’s future component is like the melismatic vocals contained within: suggestive of another truth, both apart from our current world as well as within it. "Zaman" is therefore a three-layered artistic expression: an imagined existence, within a musical atmosphere, within our current reality.

 “L.A. Raga” is a geographic, linguistic, social and artistic blend of cultures, a tune equally comfortable on an Indian Ocean beach
or after-hours Paris club. And thanks to its improvisational intensity (and the fine vocal emotings of Amir Paiss) this urban raga crescendos like a mountain river meeting its oceanic delta. Conveyed in a combination of Hebrew, Sanskrit and Arabic syllables, “Julee Ja” brims with the mournfully emancipated emotion, representing the longing for romantic love (the subject of the opus), but also a person’s longing for self-wholeness. “Duni Dunes” opens like a spring flower bathed in sunlight. After the impressionistic introduction, the song takes flight when the acoustic hand drums begin the cyclical beat, a rhythm that reinforces the song’s aquatic cycle-of-life inspiration. Then there’s the auspicious and unfolding opening of “Zaman,” the dramatic, melodic, and intriguing closing title track. What does the longing flute represent? The double-tracked oboes? Where is this music from? How much is composed, and how much is creatively fashioned on the spot? The answers, like those to life’s questions, are found within. For with their many talented friends, Ziv and Scott — chemists as well as composers — demonstrate not only their sonic aptitude and xenophilic orientation, but also a superceding expression of humanity. Open your mind’s eye, enter the world of "Zaman", and travel... —

David Lynch, “Austin Chronicle”