For Keeley’s latest venture, ‘Hand to Mouth’ pushes this envelope further, through a deliberate exploitation of space and restraint as the key focus that underpins her latest collection of songs. Keeley, along with longtime collaborator Matthew Bourne, have envisaged a programme of songs like this for some time. Drawing on their experience of performing paired-back […]
Deluxe offering of Grammy Best New Artist nominee Arooj Aftab’s breakthrough album Vulture Prince, featuring Grammy Best Global Music Performance-nominated track “Mohabbat”. Aftab’s remarkable voice, backed by a team of renowned musicians, transports listeners to the composer’s world. Intimate piano and swelling orchestral strings unveil mystical passage into Aftab’s emotionally gripping symphonic world – vast […]
Grammy-winning Arooj Aftab is set to release Night Reign, the follow up to her critically-acclaimed album Vulture Prince, on Verve Records. Aftab makes the night the focus of this nine-song collection. Entirely in her own voice and through her own story, she delves into the multifaceted, bold and fascinating realm that comes to life after […]
During the summer of 2013, Xiu Xiu founder Jamie Stewart and producer Shahzad Ismaily (Yoko Ono, Feist, Arooj Aftab, Bonnie Prince Billy) traveled to Sigur Rós’s personal studio in Iceland. Having access to the space for only one day, Stewart worked on setting down their interpretations of American and Caribbean spirituals using a 1953 Silvertone […]
Tracklist: 1. Mashoor / 2. Dhundlo Lo Mujhe / 3. Koshish / 4. Khatam / 5. Lehja The newest Erased Tapes signee Sheherazaad is an American performer-composer, whose contemporary folk-pop synthesis, produced by Arooj Aftab, joins the new wave of South Asian diasporic soundscapes. “Microtonal South Asian vocal inflections, Minimalism and hints of flamenco” — […]
