For Karen Salicath Jamali, music is not written — it is received. Rooted in dreams, guided by intuition, and shaped by spiritual experience, Wings of Gabriel emerges as a three-winged work devoted to Archangel Gabriel. In this interview, Jamali reflects on surrender, creation, and becoming a vessel for sound.
Your latest album, Wings of Gabriel, unfolds in three wings, each reflecting a different aspect of Archangel Gabriel. How did you begin to sense that the music needed to be structured this way?
The album started with 3 pieces Wings of Gabriel 1, 2 and 3.
This was the start and then I began to feel the pieces came in a special energy of Gabriel´s energy, and I got guided to put them in under these 3 categories.
Wing I — Gabriel’s Softness & Tenderness Gentle: Compassionate, and filled with the quiet power of unconditional love.
Wing II — Divine Compassion & Inner Peace: A harmonic sanctuary opens into his compassion and the serene peace he brings to the soul
Wing III — The Mystery Beyond Words: Ethereal, expansive, and rooted in the unexplainable magic of Gabriel’s presence.
When you say creating the album felt like “chasing a feather through the morning air,” how did you learn to surrender to music that arrived as feelings or frequencies rather than finished melodies?
I dream, the music, and I wake up with it in my being, early in the morning, and record it. The music is not only tones, and rhythm, music is made of feelings, and expressed in the energies of a specific feeling, connected to the universe, nature, and the Angels. And these pieces were, as I dreamed them, coming from the energy of Archangel Gabriel. They came some times over the last year. And I felt it was from him, and I felt I had to cash this feather he left me with music, and give it to those who were open to listening.
This is the difference between music made by man and music made by AI. Man is connected to the universe made of it, and interacting with it, the universe is made of music. If we begin to pollute the space with sounds not coming from the soul of beings, but from artificial machines, we will be disconnected from the real world of being. From cave age to our contemporary times, perennial art is a living constant in our beings. It is the immortal essence of our gift and expression which connects humanity with the universe and the meanings and substance of being.
You are also a visual artist, and the album cover features your own painting. How does painting connect to your music, and did the visual come before or after the sound?
In fact I dreamed of the cover too, and I found I already had made this painting, many years ago, the feather painting. So it was very easy, it was already there.
Archangel Gabriel is often associated with messages and revelation. Do you feel Wings of Gabriel is delivering a specific message, or creating a space for listeners to receive what they need personally?
I believe my music gives a personal space for people to connect to, their inner connection, to their angels, or their inner feelings. My music guides them to open up some doors to spaces for specific energies.
Do you believe the piano acts as a channel in your work, or is it more of a witness to what’s already present?
Everything is already made and present in other forms, I am just a vessel, they download the music to this level of beings, the human level. The instrument, my Steinway is the door in which it unfolds, translating, so we can receive these energies as sound.
How do you protect the purity of a spiritual work when it enters the technical world of recording, and mastering?
I try to interfere as little as possible. All the music I receive comes in one piece, I only play it once or 2 times, and record the music the second it comes to me. On my little Roland recorder and 2 super good mics from Neumann, and of course my old golden age Steinway piano. I have the honor to work with the master engineer Maria Triana, who has spent decades as a master engineer with SONY music. She has worked with some of this planet's greatest artists, including Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Britney Spears, Billie Holliday and many more. She understands how to preserve the uniqueness of the music, not change it but make it so it sounds right on most digital platforms and devices, in its original form.
Have you ever dreamt music that you chose not to record, and if so, why?
No I have not done that, I record all the music I receive, so I have a loot of music :)
All the music which comes to me, is a gift, and as an artist it is my obligation to pass it on to my audience, otherwise I would not be fulfilling my job.
Because this album came to you through dreams, we want to know — do you already feel future music waiting in that dream space, or does it arrive only when you’re ready to begin again?
Yes, I feel there is coming more, for sure, this is the part of my being, to receive this music, and give this music, after I had a neardead experience and a 3 year recovery back to life, when I suddenly could play and compose music, my life changed completely, and this is the essence of who I am, why I am, here on earth still. I am always in a state of music inside, I always hear some music, inside, I can tune in or out of it. But the best music is coming in dreams.
When music arrives through dreams, how do you distinguish between imagination and something that feels divinely guided?
I surrender myself to the music, I become hollow, I become music, it just flows through me like water, and out of my fingers. I don't hold back, I don't control, I don't think, I just am in this space of music. And I feel my Angels near. This is the closest I can explain. With gratitude, Thank you for having me.
As Karen Salicath Jamali describes it, everything is already present — the music, the meaning, the connection. Her role is simply to open the door. And through Wings of Gabriel, that door remains quietly open for anyone willing to listen.