Karen Salicath Jamali didn’t set out to become a composer. The piano entered her life after a head injury in 2012, when she started hearing music in dreams and decided to follow it. She had never played before. By 2015, she was recording what she heard. Now there are eight albums and thousands of pieces.
“Angel Raphael’s Touch” is one of the newer ones, a short solo piano work. It opens quietly, played soft enough to hear the weight of each key as it lands. There’s no rush in it: Each note leaves a trace. Just the piano, spaced out with enough silence to feel like it’s thinking.
The track came to her the way most of her music does: through sleep. She describes it as dream-guided, a form of intuitive healing connected to the energy of Archangel Raphael. The mastering is handled by Maria Triana, who has worked with everyone from Aretha Franklin to the Metropolitan Opera. There’s no mistaking the clarity in the mix, but the polish doesn’t flatten it. The piano still sounds close, imperfect, human.
Jamali also made the sculpture on the single’s cover. The same hands shaping bronze shaped this. It’s all part of the same output. Nothing flashy. Just one note after another, spaced out enough to breathe.
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