[2] In 1996, Ali formed "alternative world" group VAS with percussionist Greg Ellis after meeting the year prior at a concert at UCLA.

[3][4] In 2005, Azam Ali was featured on Enter the Chicken, a 2005 Buckethead album, singing the song "Coma" with Serj Tankian.

[5] In 2006, Ali was featured on Nefes/Breath, an album by Turkish ney player and DJ Mercan Dede, singing the song "Dem."

[8] Lamentation of Swans – A Journey Towards Silence (2013), Ali's fourth album, is a joint effort with her husband Loga Ramin Torkian that began in 2009 and explores the intimate spaces they had to carve out for themselves to escape the demands of touring.

In 2003 she sang "Inama Nushif" in the fictional Fremen language for the soundtrack to the 2003 Sci Fi Channel mini-series Frank Herbert's Children of Dune, written by Brian Tyler.