Another amazing talent emerging from Copenhagen, Melodi Ghazal is an artist who writes with a quiet sense of reflection and emotional depth. Raised by Iranian parents, music was always close to home, from the sounds of pre revolution Iranian pop to the glossy hits that filled living rooms and TV screens in the 80s and 90s. After stepping away from music for nearly a decade, Ghazal eventually found her way back through studies at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory, as she reconnected with songwriting and used it to explore feelings of identity, longing and belonging. The school counts ML Buch, Astrid Sonne and Clarissa Connelly among its alumni and, fittingly, those were some of the names that first came to mind when we listened to her album.
This Friday, she releases her debut album Idol Melodies, a 10 track project shaped by spiritual symbolism, transformation and a search for connection. Built gradually from intuitive ideas, the record weaves Middle Eastern percussion, hazy synth textures and English Persian vocals into a sound that feels both direct and deeply layered. Ahead of the release, Ghazal shares the final single “In My Room”, a tender and introspective moment on the album. Floating on retro synthesizer chords and looping grooves, the song explores the comfort of retreating inward during childhood while reflecting on her relationship with newly immigrated parents. As Ghazal explains, “For me, the song is this image; I am a child sitting on a wall to wall carpet and have shut myself inside my room, put my ‘in the zone’ CD into the Walkman, and am trying to get, well, ‘in the zone.’ My own zone. It’s about how it’s too cold, confusing, and difficult outside, so I retreat into my own small, naïve world.” Before adding: “It’s also about my relationship with my parents, who had only just arrived in the country when I was born; about how I felt overprotected and deprived of agency, and how that affected my ability to understand how to navigate the world. And how at the same time I wanted to make them proud for everything they had sacrificed for me. And finally, how everything became okay when I shut myself in.” Watch the visualizer below.
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