Still struggling under an excessive bandwidth demand... which is a good thing, sort of. I'll address that shortly (in the meantime, visit the Tip Jar!), but for today here's something fabulous direct from Six Degrees Records. They've just released the latest from Niyaz, a group formed in 2005 by the trio of Azam Ali (Vas), Loga Tamin Torkian (Axiom of Choice), and Carmen Rizzo (R-New Mexico. N...
Here I am in Raleigh, alone in my room, and helpless to do anything to comfort a friend who is 6,000 miles away in Istanbul, Turkey and has just lost her grandfather today to a very long and debilitating illness. There are so many things that separate us in this life. I'm so tired of separateness. I would give everything I have, right now, to be with my friend. I don't even have words good enou...
CD REVIEW Azam Ali, Keyavash Nourai, & Shahrokh Yadegari - Green Memories (LilaSound) Azam Ali is undoubtedly the big-name musician on this album. But if you approach it expecting something like her work with Vas or Niyaz, you'll be wrong. Sort of. Green Memories is billed as a "structured improvisation work by Shahrokh Yadegari," who plays the Lila, "a computer music instrument which al...
azam ali is an incredible vocalist. of iranian descent, having grown up in bombay, now residing in LA, she brings diverse music together. she sings, as here, in farsi, also urdu and hindi, and english. she has produced an amazing album as part of the trio niyaz, which i might post something of. very nice textured sounds, nicely balanced with western influence. her lyrics are often sufi poetry, the