The Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR) has announced the winners of the 2025 AIR Awards at a ceremony at Adelaide Town Hall on 31 July. The awards celebrate the achievements of independent Australian artists and creative workers across the genres of contemporary music, classical and jazz.

Electric Fields and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra have taken home the award for Best Independent Classical Album or EP, for their live in concert album.

Zaachariaha Fielding, The Electric Fields + MSO. Photo supplied

Featuring arrangements by composing wunderkind Alex Turley, the album is a recording of the duo’s 2023 performance with the orchestra at Hamer Hall. In his 4-and-a-half-star Limelight review of the performance, Guy Webster wrote that the two “are a match made in heaven … with full orchestra behind them, [Electric Fields’] already epic sound reaches even greater heights.”

Best Independent Jazz Album was clinched by multidisciplinary artist Parvyn for her sophomore album Maujuda, which explores “different stories and perspectives in discovery and acceptance”. The album was recorded in Vancouver and fuses classical Indian raga and Punjabi musical tradition with jazz, disco and rock.

The 2025 Outstanding Achievement Award went to...