Azam Ali's Synesthesia Therapy: The Echoes Interview
The voice of Azam Ali has been part of the Echoes soundscape for three decades. Her Persian fusion groups, Vas and Niyaz, were seminal acts and her solo albums have included chants of Abbess Hildegard von Bingen, hymns of Sephardic Jews sung in Ladino, and the electronic-driven sounds of her 2019 album, Phantoms. But after that release and the pandemic, she fell into depression and was thinking of leaving music.
Azam Ali: The music industry has just become a place that I didn’t relate to anymore and couldn’t find my place in this new world of becoming what I describe as an Instagram artist. I’m not an Instagram artist.
Definitely not. She has a brilliant album, working out these themes called Synesthesia. It was Echoes CD of the Month last November. and we talk to her on Echoes.
Read John Diliberto’s review of Azam Ali’s Synesthesia.