Amoeba Music

Hear Brooklyn-based Pakistani composer Arooj Aftab's new album, Night Reign (Verve), a day before release date at our listening party on Thursday, May 30th at 5pm! The album will be available for purchase on CD, vinyl, and Indie Exclusive silver vinyl. Attendees will receive fun giveaways, and a raffle ticket to enter to win a copy of Night Reign, a pair of tickets to see her show at August Hall on January 24, 2025, and other fabulous prizes. (No purchase necessary. Must be present to win.)

Some songs can only be heard at night…

“The night,” Arooj Aftab confesses, “is my biggest source of inspiration.” By trial or intuition, the GRAMMY® winning artist has come to understand that these still moments of cover uniquely enable healing, desire, shelter, love – each essential elements of life and living.

Night Reign is a perfumed, public garden of renewal, peaking the senses with each composition, each turn of phrase, each modulation. Stepping away from, though never forgetting, the grief and loss that animated her GRAMMY® Award-winning track “Mohabbat” and album Vulture Prince (2021), on which she faced what can too quickly and easily be taken away, Aftab appears here with original music and in yet another form: as bard of everyday possibility, quietude and life-altering romance.

The music - which features contributions from artists Cautious Clay, Vijay Iyer, Moor Mother, and more - holds visual context, a cinematic soundscape that brings life to the divinely ominous space we call the dark. Within the realm of darkness, Night Reign points to layers of depth that blend each song into a narrative of surrender. The majesty of this intrepid work is Aftab’s voice in ample conspiracy toward a jagged world made softer – promising, even – by tones and tales conceived with others. “I want to make music with and for everybody,” Aftab confidently declares. Night Reign is that chance and its triumph. Join and be made anew.