PRESS RELEASE: New single from Arooj Aftab's "Vulture Prince" out now
Arooj Aftab releases second single from
Vulture Prince
Today, Pitchfork shares the new single from Brooklyn-based Pakistani composer Arooj Aftab. "Last Night" is the second single from her third album, Vulture Prince, out April 23, on New Amsterdam.
"Last Night," an old Rumi poem that Aftab often sings live but has never released, is the follow-up to "Mohabbat," a song Pitchfork recently named Best New Track. Both singles are now available on all digital platforms.
Championed by NPR, who praised her composition as one of the "Greatest Songs By 21st Century Women+," and The New York Times, who celebrated her work as one of the "Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018," Aftab’s liminal sound floats between classical minimalism and new age, Sufi devotional poetry and electronic trance, jazz structures and states of pure being. On Vulture Prince, the composer’s remarkable voice, backed by a team of renowned musicians, transports listeners to worlds once known.
Watch the 360° video for Francisco del Pino's
"El campo"
Out May 14, Decir is the debut seven-piece song cycle from Francisco del Pino, an award-winning Argentine composer who explores the seams between classical and vernacular traditions. Conceived as the staging of a long poem, the work was scored for voice, electric guitar, viola, and percussion, with lyrics by Argentine poet Victoria Cóccaro. Cecilia Pastorino, a classically trained soprano and renowned figure in South America’s folk scene, sings Cóccaro’s timely lyrics of migration, displacement, and the rise of historically silenced voices.
The first single, "El campo," is out now on all digital platforms. Watch the 360° video for "El campo" incorporating elements of the album's visual world.