℗ 2021 Arooj Aftab, under exclusive license to Verve Label Group, a division of UMG Recordings; A Verve Records release
| Released | December 8, 2021 |
| Originated | April 23, 2021 |
| Duration | 46m 34s |
| Record Label | Arooj Aftab Profit Split |
| Genre | World |
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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 |
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.”
“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 – Arooj Aftab Profit Split Studio Masters
Tracks 1, 3 – contains material which utilizes a limited amount of the available bandwidth 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
Tracks 1, 3 – contains material which utilizes a limited amount of the available bandwidth 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 title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.30 -0.32 to -0.30 | -16.41 -17.40 to -14.29 | -14.00 -14.80 to -12.30 | 10 9 to 11 | |
| 1 | Baghon Main (feat. Darian Donovan Thomas) | -0.30 | -16.84 | -13.6 | 10 |
| 2 | Diya Hai (feat. Badi Assad) | -0.30 | -17.12 | -13.9 | 10 |
| 3 | Inayaat | -0.30 | -17.40 | -14.3 | 10 |
| 4 | Last Night | -0.30 | -15.73 | -14.5 | 9 |
| 5 | Mohabbat | -0.30 | -16.34 | -14.6 | 11 |
| 6 | Saans Lo | -0.32 | -17.16 | -14.8 | 10 |
| 7 | Suroor | -0.30 | -14.29 | -12.3 | 9 |