Los Angeles theremin player and composer ALIA announces her debut album, 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒎, following 2025’s Harold Budd cover in collaboration with Nailah Hunter. Alia grew up around Levantine jazz and other widespread musics. She studied raqs sharqi - better known as belly dance - and Arabic music, as well as learning the kacapi from the Indonesian pandit Ade Suparman. Later, she adopted the theremin after seeing an LA performance by Iranian-Armenian musician Armen Ra, to employ “like a human voice, but strange and magical. I like to incorporate it into various styles of music in unexpected ways.” An in-demand session player, Alia is also a member of pop musician Melanie Martinez’ touring band.