Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Arooj Aftab\u2019s career has grown gradually, now suddenly. The Riyadh-born, Lahore-raised, Brooklyn-based musician recorded her first album in 2014, followed in 2018 by an essay into contemporary classical. Vulture Prince in 2021 won a Grammy for \u201cMohabbat\u201d. A trio album with the jazz players Viyay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily followed, so Night Reign is, depending on how you count, either her fourth or her fifth proper album. Vulture Prince came out of a place of grief, for the deaths of her brother Maher and her friend Annie Ali Khan. It was a preternaturally still record, astonishing in its massive, quiet density. Night Reign is looser, even more abandoned; although still a nocturnal album this is a night-time full of possibilities, not a deep dark midnight of the soul. The title hints punningly at Americana, but there are few instances of that. A cover of \u201cAutumn Leaves\u201d, a jazz standard with English lyrics by Johnny Mercer (after Jacques Pr\u00e9vert\u2019s French original) starts with metallic echoing percussion and ends with an exploratory Rhodes solo by James Francies. \u201cI miss you most of all,\u201d sings Aftab, hitting all three descending notes of that last word cleanly without a hint of melisma. \u201cWhiskey\u201d, a song she started at college in Boston two decades ago, swirls intoxicatingly. \u201cWe\u2019ll fade into the night on waves of your perfume,\u201d she offers as Maeve Gilchrist\u2019s harp ripples. \u201cI\u2019m drunk and you\u2019re insane.\u201d A reprise of Vulture Prince\u2019s \u201cLast Night\u201d, there a spectral dub, is here wilder, alive with flute from Cautious Clay and Elvis Costello on the Wurlitzer.The title actually stems from Raat Ki Rani, the Pakistani flower known as Queen of the Night; the song of the same name features a slow descending bassline and tasteful AutoTune blurring the edges of Aftab\u2019s alto. Flugelhorn rises like an infusion through \u201cNa Gul\u201d, a setting of the 18th-century writer Mah Laqa Bai\u2019s amorous address to the 16th-century Queen Chand Bibi. Like Vulture Prince, this album insists that you listen to it over and over again.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2018Night Reign\u2019 is released by Verve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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