Arooj Aftab / VULTURE PRINCE

“Vulture Prince” is the third album from Brooklyn-based Pakistani composer Arooj Aftab. Championed by NPR, who praised her composition as one of the “Greatest Songs By 21st Century Women+,” and the 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, Urdu poetry and electronic trance, jazz structures and states of pure being. On “Vulture Prince,” the composer’s remarkable voice highlights classic old world poetry from Sudarshan Fakir to Mirza Ghalib. Backed by a team of renowned musicians, the record transports listeners to worlds once known.