℗ 2022 Arooj Aftab, under exclusive license to Verve Label Group, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc; A Verve Records release
| Released | June 24, 2022 |
| Duration | 51m 37s |
| Record Label | Verve Records |
| Genre | World |
Vulture Prince (Deluxe Edition)
Arooj Aftab
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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Baghon Main (feat. Darian Donovan Thomas)
Arooj Aftab; Darian Donovan Thomas |
6:44 | |||
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1.2
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Diya Hai (feat. Badi Assad)
Arooj Aftab; Badi Assad |
5:40 | |||
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1.3
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Inayaat
Arooj Aftab |
7:47 | |||
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1.4
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Last Night
Arooj Aftab |
5:58 | |||
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1.5
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Mohabbat
Arooj Aftab |
7:42 | |||
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1.6
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Saans Lo
Arooj Aftab |
7:31 | |||
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1.7
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Suroor
Arooj Aftab |
5:12 | |||
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1.8
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Udhero Na (feat. Anoushka Shankar)
Arooj Aftab; Anoushka Shankar |
5:03 |
Grammy Award Nomination, 2022 – Best New Artist
"The Pakistan-born, Brooklyn-based composer draws from jazz, Hindustani classical, and folk to create a heartbreaking, exquisite document of the journey from grief to acceptance."
- Pitchfork
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 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.
While writing Vulture Prince Aftab lost her younger brother, Maher, and she dedicates this album to his memory—a signal of emergence from loss and grief. “E quindi uscimmo a revider la stelle,” as Dante says at last, out of the inferno, “and thence we came forth to see again the stars.”
This "Deluxe Edition" features new contributions from Badi Assad, Maeve Gilchrist, Jamey Haddad, Bhrigu Sahni, Kenji Herbert, Lady Jess, Jarvis Benson, Malcolm Parson, Jorn Bielfeldt, Shazhad Ismaily, Juliette Jones, Mario Carrillo, Petros Klampanis, Nadje Noordhuis, Gyan Riley, and Darian Donovan Thomas.
“Vulture Prince is about revisiting places I’ve called mine, places that don’t necessarily exist anymore. It's about people, friendships, relationships—some relationships that were unexpectedly short term, and how to deal with that.”
- Arooj Aftab
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Verve Records Studio Masters
Track 7 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit Track 4 – 48 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
Track 7 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit Track 4 – 48 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.35 -0.60 to -0.32 | -16.34 -17.42 to -14.32 | -14.04 -14.80 to -12.30 | 10 9 to 11 | |
| 1 | Baghon Main (feat. Darian Donovan Thomas) | -0.60 | -17.14 | -13.9 | 10 |
| 2 | Diya Hai (feat. Badi Assad) | -0.32 | -17.14 | -14.0 | 10 |
| 3 | Inayaat | -0.32 | -17.42 | -14.4 | 10 |
| 4 | Last Night | -0.32 | -15.75 | -14.6 | 9 |
| 5 | Mohabbat | -0.32 | -16.36 | -14.6 | 11 |
| 6 | Saans Lo | -0.32 | -17.16 | -14.8 | 10 |
| 7 | Suroor | -0.32 | -14.32 | -12.3 | 9 |
| 8 | Udhero Na (feat. Anoushka Shankar) | -0.32 | -15.41 | -13.7 | 10 |