Hearing in Colors: Azam Ali 's Synesthesia-Echoes November CD of the Month
We have followed the voice of Azam Ali for three decades. Her sensual tone, spinning minarets of melody, seduced us when we first hear her back in 1996 singing on an Angels of Venice album. But it was her Persian fusion group with percussionist Greg Ellis, b, that really turned our heads as she sang in her own imaginary glossolalia. She followed that up with the persian fusion group, Niyaz with her husband, multi-string player, Loga Ramin Torkian. She’s released several solo albums, singing in many different languages and then in 2019, she went electronic and sang in English on the album, Phantoms. That was an Echoes CD of the Month that year. Now she’s returned with something of a follow-up called Synesthesia. That’s the condition where your senses cross and you might hear color as a sound or numbers might conjure taste or smell or any of the other 5 senses in mixed up matrix. We startled your senses tonight when we explore Azam Ali’s Synesthesia “, on Echoes from PRX.
Hear Azam Ali’s Echoes Interview in the Podcast.
Join the Echoes CD of the Month Club.