Double LP version. Azu Tiwaline presents her second full length LP The Fifth Dream. Released again through her beloved partnership with I.O.T Records, The Fifth Dream finds Azu painting an expansive vision towards unified multitudes, mercurial realities, and abundant inner sanctums. Where her first album Draw Me a Silence was a loving ode to her family and upbringing in the form of an elegant diptych, The Fifth Dream is the enactment of actualizing her roots into new routes, taking her multifaceted identity into new means of communication towards herself, the world, and the cosmic unknowns that surround her. This is music that gives back as much as the listener wants to give themselves unto it -- detailed and layered, orbiting a steady core as ethereal swirls and intonations of the natural world embrace us warmly within a spellbinding journey. Eight of the album's nine tracks feature a deep level of collaboration from innovative Franco-Iranian percussionist Cinna Peyghamy. Cinna's use of Tombak, the principal drum of Iranian music throughout time, is beautifully sonorous -- channeling the passion of centuries of Southwest Asian rhythm and expression into his own personalized flourishes, with Azu adding her own electrifying frequencies and undiluted artistic freedom to their shared interplay. This profoundly communicative diasporic essence is transmuted between Azu and Cinna, their expression, and the listener. Both are music lovers, intimately connected to their respected Iranian and Tunisian cultures -- concurrently acknowledging the wisdom of their resonant pasts, while proudly bringing the sounds of their heritage into the present and future. The Fifth Dream embodies a cosmic anodyne for those feeling caught in between life's abyssal in-betweens, whilst aiming for a consonant awareness of where our home truly lies in the swells of life's spiritual maelstrom. This dream belongs at once to none and to many, that of a common language unified in concentric depth -- finding beauty in all aspects of our world, and ultimately, within oneself.
| A1 | Golden Dawn |
| A2 | Night in Palmtree |
| B1 | Antennae Opening |
| B2 | Blowing Flow |
| C1 | Long Hypnosis |
| C2 | Reptilian Waves |
| D1 | Mei Long |
| D2 | Canopée Imaginaire |
