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Cat: 454278 2. Rel: 27 Jun 22
Folk/Americana

Side 1 - Track 1. Baghon Main (feat Darian Donovan Thomas)Side 1 - Track 2. Diya Hai (feat Badi Assad)Side 2 - Track 1. InayaatSide 2 - Track 2. Last NightSide 3 - Track 1. MohabbatSide 3 - Track 2. Saans LoSide 4 - Track 1. SuroorSide 4 - Track 2. Udhero Na (feat Anoushka Shankar)

Brooklyn-based Pakistani vocalist Aroof Aftab presents her third studio album, and a record that has the power to transport listeners pretty much anywhere. While steeped in traditions stereotypically associated with her homeland, ears more attuned will quickly pick up on just how divergent this is. Whether you'd consider it a classical album is down to how you gauge that genre term, we'd say it has grown broad enough over the past century to definitely include this, but ultimately even that seems reductive.

Elements of poetry, ambient trance, jazz, minimalism, and new age, it's a spiritual and musical experience based around themes of discovery, loss, memory, and intimate connections with the Earth. Sonically, that translates as something that's at once sublime and yet also surprising, combining a multitude of influences from aeons of songwriting to create something that could not have existed in any previous era.