Aziza Mustafa Zadeh - Inspiration - Reflection & Colors[FLAC - L

FLAC files + CUE sheet
Released in 1999


Track Listing:

1. Insomnia (8:02)
2. Insult (4.04)
3. Spanish Picture (remix) (4.31)
4. March (Vagif month) (2.38)
5. Öz Allahina Düsmän (6.17)
6. Heartbeat (upgraded version) (7:37)
7. I am blue (2:02)
8. Waiting for Aziza (5:54)
9. Vocalise (2:19)
10. Inspiration (5:03)
11. Vagif Prelude (3:37)
12. Bana Bana Gel - Bad Gal (Radio Edit) (7:56)
13. 139 Colors of Sea (7:10)
14. Naje Sevim (8:20)
15. Night Interlude (2:39)



About Aziza Mustafa Zadeh:
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh is a classically trained pianist and singer. She grew up in the former soviet republic of Azerbaijan as the daughter of Vagif Mustafa Zadeh , a jazz composer and pianist, to whom lots of Aziza's works are dedicated, and of Eliza Khanom, a singer, who is now her manager. She currently lives in Mainz, Germany.

Aziza started playing the piano when she was 3 years old, gave her first concerts at 14, and won her first international prizes at age 17. "It would have been a sin not to use this god-given gift," she muses. Next to God her parents are Aziza's most important musical leaders, especially her father. He tragically died at the early age of 39 of a heart attack after a performance in Uzbekistan, an event both devastating and strangely motivating for the ten-year old girl: With Vagif's death she not only lost her father but a source of inspiration and a gifted mentor for whose unceasing creativity Aziza continues to have the highest appreciation. "He was a genius. A true genius." Vagif continued to influence his daughter beyond his death it seems. Commenting on his death she muses: "For me, my father has never died. He simply has left this earth. I still feel his energy surrounding me. Sometimes, it's like his soul is flying around me, you know. There are times when I give concerts that I feel his presence so strongly, it's almost tangible. It's like I could reach out and touch him." Little surprise that her father is omnipresent in Aziza's work, be it in the form of one of his compositions or in a song dedicated to him.

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