Vulture Prince

Arudj Aftab at 19 moved from the Pakistani city of Lahore to the USA, where she graduated Berklee, and now plays a prominent role in the Brooklyn jazz scene. During the writing of Vulture Prince, Aftab lost her younger brother Maher and dedicated this album to his memory. "I think of the Tower of Silence," says Aftab, "a burial structure of the Parsis, where the deceased are left for vultures to consume, thus returning them to the cycle of life. The desire to embody the mystical power of ancestors led to the writing of Vulture Prince." To cope with the loss, Aftab turned to ghazals in Urdu. Ghazal - a form in classical Arabic poetry. It usually expresses the bitterness of loss, but also the love that exists despite this pain. On Vulture Prince, Aftab combines the existential longing of ghazals with jazz, music from North India and Pakistani folk, to create a journey from sorrow to acceptance.

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