Liraz has announced her third album ‘Roya’ and released new single ‘Azizam’. The record again sees her working with Iranian musicians, who remain anonymous for safety reasons, although on this occasion they managed to work face to face, rather than remotely.Raised in Israel, Liraz used her debut album ‘Naz’ as a way to connect with her Persian roots – mixing tradition and more modern music and singing entirely in Farsi.
After the album was released, she found that Iranian musicians, working under the radar of Tehran’s secret police, began getting in touch.Eventually, she and some of those musicians began working together online on what would become her second album, ‘Zan’, which was released in 2020.
With everyone having stayed in touch, for the third record in what seems to have become an accidental trilogy the anonymous Iranian musicians travelled to Tel Aviv to record with Liraz and her Israeli band.“All I remember are fragments”, says Liraz of meeting these musicians for the first time, “The fear and anxiety I felt when I knew they were on their way.
The tears of joy and relief we all cried as we embraced. And the music we made! Such music!”Of new single ‘Azizam’ – the title of which translates as ‘Dearest’ – she says: “’Azizam’ is a joyful and rhythmic love song, with an open and honest way of viewing relationships.
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