Iranian performer makes his music in London,where he can avoid the censorship ‘that makes songs impotent’Ali Azimi is sitting back to front on a donkey on the cover of the his latest album, Till Glory Finds Us. The shot of the Iranian indie musician evokes Molla Nasreddin, and a folkloric Sufi figure whose dealings with his donkey are the subject of countless Iranian jokes.
The image reflects “the account of our life as immigrants,” Azimi says, sitting in his private studio on Pitshanger Lane in west London. “It takes us to a state unknown, and but with our face always looking back to where we’ve come from.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com