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Po mnenju revije UNCUT »trenutno najbolj kul rock zvezda na svetu« Arooj Aftab je zasluženo med vodilnimi imeni na področju ustvarjalne glasbe, saj se ne boji tvegati in se ne podreja nikomur in ničemur. Leta 2024 je izdala četrti solo album Night Reign (pri založbi Verve), ki je bil obče dobro sprejet in ji je prinesel nominacijo za grammyja za najboljši alternativni jazz album, skladba »Raat Ki Rani« pa za najboljšo globalno glasbeno izvedbo.ZA FENE: Shabaka, Nubya Garcia, Nala Sinephro …
Night Reign razširja glasbeno vesolje, ki ga je Aftab ustvarila v preteklih letih. Album združuje zvezdniško zasedbo (Cautious Clay, Vijay Iyer, Elvis Costello, James Francies, Moor Mother, Joel Ross) pod mirno, a genialno taktirko kraljice noči. Pri časniku Wall Street Journal so zapisali, da je »njegova lepota očitna in stoji sama po sebi,« kar pojasni, zakaj se je uvrstil na toliko seznamov najboljših albumov leta 2024.
Njegov predhodnik, album Vulture Prince, je Aftab odprl vrata v kulturni duh časa, saj ga je na svoj seznam skladb za poletje 2021 vključil celo nekdanji ameriški predsednik Barack Obama. Prepoznavna plošča ji je leta 2022 prinesla nominacijo za grammyja za najboljšega novega izvajalca, nagrado pa je osvojila s skladbo »Mohabbat«. V naslednjem letu sta z Aftab sodelovala Vijay Iyer in Shahzad Ismaily na improvizacijskem albumu Love in Exile (Verve, 2023), ki je bil kot »mojstrski tečaj v prostoru« prav tako nominiran za grammyja in jim je v letu 2023 prinesel nagrado Edison Jazz.
Aftab je odraščala v mestu Lahore v Pakistanu, rojstnem kraju njenih staršev, ki sta velika ljubitelja glasbe. Pri 18 letih je priredila pesem Leonarda Cohena »Hallelujah«, ki je postala viralna uspešnica in ji pomagala pri vpisu na Berklee College of Music v Bostonu, kjer je študirala jazz, Brooklyn v New Yorku pa je postal njena naslednja in najbolj plodna delavnica za ustvarjanje žanrsko neopredeljive glasbe.
V zadnjih letih je poskrbela za»srce parajoče nastope na pomembnih prizoriščih in mednarodnih festivalih, kot so Primavera, Glastonbury, Coachella, Le Guess Who? (tudi v vlogi kuratorke), Newport in Montreal Jazz. Gostovala je v oddajah Tiny Desk na kanalu NPR, Later... with Jools Holland, Brodie in Mahogany Sessions, o njenem delu pa so med drugim pisali pri The New York Times, The Guardian, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The Financial Times, The Quietus in Time. Leta 2023 je prejela štipendijo organizacije United States Artists in nagrado Vilcek za kreativne upe v glasbi.
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Organizacija: Druga godba (koncertni cikel Sogodbe) in Kino Šiška.
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Declared “the coolest rock star in the world right now,” by UNCUT magazine, Arooj Aftab has earned her position at the vanguard of creative music for her embrace of risk and nonconformity. In 2024, she released her fourth solo album, Night Reign (Verve), to universal acclaim, earning a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Jazz Album, while the song “Raat Ki Rani” was tabbed for Best Global Music Performance.
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The album expands on the musical universe Aftab has created over the years. Night Reign features an all-star cast of musicians (Cautious Clay, Vijay Iyer, Elvis Costello, James Francies, Moor Mother, Joel Ross), united beneath the steady, brilliant hand of the queen of the night. As put by the Wall Street Journal, “[Night Reign’s] beauty is self-evident, and it stands on its own” which helps explain its inclusion across so many Best of 2024 album lists.
Night Reign’s predecessor, Vulture Prince, ushered Aftab into the cultural zeitgeist, including a place on President Barack Obama’s Summer 2021 playlist. Recognition for the record propelled her to a Best New Artist Grammy nomination in 2022 and a win for the song “Mohabbat.” The following year she collaborated with Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily on a “masterclass in space,” the improvisational Love in Exile (Verve 2023), also Grammy nominated and winner of a 2023 Edison Jazz award.
Aftab spent her adolescent years in Lahore, Pakistan, the birthplace of her music-loving
parents. Her viral cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” at age 18 aided in her passage to study jazz at Berklee College of Music in Boston, while Brooklyn, New York would be her next and most fertile workshop for creation of her genre-defying music.
Over the last few years, she has delivered “rapturous performances” at major venues and international festivals including Primavera, Glastonbury, Coachella, Le Guess Who? (which she curated), and both Newport and Montreal Jazz. She has appeared on NPR’s Tiny Desk, Later with Jools Holland, Brodie and Mahogany sessions, and been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The Financial Times, The Quietus, and Time, to name a few. She is a 2023 United States Artists Fellow and recipient of the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Music.
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Organisation: Druga godba (Sogodbe concert series) and Kino Šiška.
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Kino Šiška, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3 (zraven: Derčeva ulica),Ljubljana, Slovenia
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