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ASHA ALI – HURRICANE
It’s late, and the sun rises over Stockholm a cold morning in May. I cry for my broken heart and hold on to him, but he doesn’t want to talk. He is done.
Something happens to me here. I realize I’m alone, that what I have always longed for – my own family – is falling apart. I pick up my child and go back to my island, lonelier than ever.
It starts here. I write ”Hurricane” as a last, desperate attempt to reach him, but he never gets to hear it, he doesn’t want to, he can’t. I walk and think and take care of my home, and write with the tears welling up. I want to be with my loved ones but I can’t, I have to be alone, want to be alone.
The days pass, one day much like the other, but every day I stand up straighter, get more confident as a woman, mother and song writer. This is the most important time of my life so far, and in some way I understand that. I write straight from my soul, and let what has always been there flow freely. It’s not easy and I don’t want to, but I still surrender to the melodies and the words and have the guitar to interpret the torrent of emotions inside of me.
Summer peaks and I’m back in Stockholm, once again trying to save something, but too much time has passed and the changes are too big. The verdict falls, it’s over. It’s over. The sadness takes shape and runs its course, and I write, more honest than ever and with great confidence and respect for what I’m going through.
”In a hurry” comes to me on a windy fall morning and is one of the most powerful moments I’ve experienced in my own writing. It’s like a portal to my inner being that opens at that instant, and in half an hour I write what I’m going through on that particular morning. And in a way it continues. ”In this world” is my declaration of independence, my right to my mistakes, my happiness and finally my acceptance of who I am.
The autumn leaves fall with the same determination as my writing. Every morning I drink my coffee, find the words and the melodies, looking at my sadness with open eyes. I don’t run around, don’t look for someone to fill the void, but dare to be in it and dare to confront myself, and my mistakes.
It is undoubtedly the hard path I am taking. Hurricane is my storm. I move forward with unbending power, where every step is a step closer to myself. It is at the same time both the beginning and the end.
– Asha Ali
”Hurricane”, the second album by Asha Ali, is released on October 7 through Asha Ali Music/La Firme management. The second single, ”The Time is Now”, is released digitally the last week of August.
”Hurricane” is the follow-up to the debut album ”Asha Ali” that was released in November 2006.
Cover taken by Åse Bengtsson Helin www.falang.se
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