Asaf Sagiv

Asaf Sagiv’s debut solo album IMA is a sacred work dedicated to his late mother Osnat Sagiv (Sabina Perelman). The album features singers from the LA Phil and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) string quartet, pipe organ, winds, piano, field recordings, electronics and more. IMA moves through Sagiv’s orchestral and chamber writing, electronic textures, and field recordings - including sounds from deep inside the Earth, NASA transmissions, and the inner body of a pregnant woman - alongside his mother’s voice. Themes of transformation, death and rebirth, the mother-child bond, grief and reconciliation, transcendence, love, time, memory, the soul and the cosmos - move through it, and emerge from it. Musical themes move and unfold, ever-changing in the IMA living universe. A labor of unconditional love. IMA was recorded in resonant churches and halls across NY, LA and a brutalist sanctuary found in Köln Germany - chosen for their natural acoustics and resonance; a subtle through line woven into the arc of Sagiv’s voice and evolving body of work. The album’s artwork is by Nobel Prize-winning Gao Xingjian. Sagiv's voice in contemporary music is distinct - bending boundaries beyond genre. His work spans film, TV, theater, and dance with credits including Netflix, HBO, Lionsgate, and more. While it may evoke traces of sacred minimalism or post-classical, his music leaves space for personal experience.