What comprises a dream?
An astral plane of our own making where thoughts, love, and desires of the inner mind abound with irreverence ripe with connection & perspective beyond constraints of time, set, and setting.

Azu Tiwaline exists within the wonders of these interstitial
worlds, diving deeper towards inner sanctums of mystic
imagination, sublime intrigue, and profound understanding on 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, & abundant inner sanctums.

Where her first album Draw Me a Silence was a loving ode to her family & 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, & the cosmic unknowns that surround her.

Throughout The Fifth Dreams 54 minute runtime, we hear all elements of the uniquely transcendental sound that Azu is beloved for worldwide. Antennae Opening, Blowing Flow, & Amen Dub embody her talents for tectonic, dubwise soundscapes that channel the innately maternal elements of bassweight into bold & abstracted pulsations, indebted to the most psychedelic & body activating ends of dubstep.

Still attuned to the spatial awareness of dub sonics but giving way to the hypnotic syncopation & synaptic frequencies.

A1 Golden Dawn
A2 Night in Palmtree
B1 Antennae Opening
B2 Blowing Flow
C1 Long Hypnosis
C2 Reptilian Waves
D1 Mei Long
D2 Canopee Imaginaire

techno, Reptilian Waves, Long Hypnosis, & Mei Long bring forth her spectacular expertise for entheogenic rave rhythms guiding us warmly towards trance inducing hyper states of dance & delight. Fluctuating between an adventurous velocity and enveloping stasis, the expansive abyssal planes of Golden Dawn, Night in Palm Tree, & Canope Imaginaire conjures a wondrously invigorating rhythmic enlightenment & celestial comprehension simultaneously moving us forward, inwards, &
outwards through Azus uniquely omnidirectional &
kaleidoscopic musical visions.

Adorned with sampled field recordings of her deeply inspiring home in the desert of El Djerid in South Tunisia, Azu opens a portal into the synergistic inner sanctums of being, self, and the world around us thats essential to her work as an artist from the macro levels of humanitys naturally intimate connection to the Earth we share, down to each of our own micro levels of culture, ancestry, and belonging. All of this is alchemized through a combination of timeless Saharan knowledge and modern cybernetic tools, creating new dimensions of bewitching, euphonious sonic energy. 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.

8 of the albums 9 tracks feature a deep level of collaboration from innovative Franco Iranian percussionist Cinna Peyghamy. Cinnas use of Tombak, the principle drum of Iranian music throughout time, is beautifully sonorous channeling the passion of centuries of Southwest Asian rhythm & expression into his own personalized flourishes, with Azu adding her own
electrifying frequencies & undiluted artistic freedom to their shared interplay. This profoundly communicative diasporic essence is transmuted between Azu & Cinna, their expression, & 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 & future.

The Fifth Dream embodies a cosmic anodyne for those feeling caught in between lifes abyssal inbetweens, whilst aiming for a consonant awareness of where our home truly lies in the swells of lifes spiritual maelstrom. This dream belongs at once to none & to many, that of a common language unified in concentric depth finding beauty in all aspects of our world, and ultimately,
within oneself.