The Town Hall: Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily at The Town Hall

Grammy Award Winner Arooj Aftab presents a brand new project with pianist Vijay Iyer and multi instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, Love In Exile. The newly released Verve Records album under the same name, Love In Exile creates lush, haunting collaborative soundscapes of meditation and yearning. Vocalist Arooj Aftab described the project as about self-exile, and the search for freedom and identity, and finding it through love and music.Arooj Aftab is a semiclassical, Hidustani, minimalist composer, songwriter and singer. She was recently awarded the Grammy for Best Global Music Performance and is the first ever Pakistani artist to receive a Grammy Award...

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Grammy Award Winner Arooj Aftab presents a brand new project with pianist Vijay Iyer and multi instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, Love In Exile. The newly released Verve Records album under the same name, Love In Exile creates lush, haunting collaborative soundscapes of meditation and yearning. Vocalist Arooj Aftab described the project as about self-exile, and the search for freedom and identity, and finding it through love and music.Arooj Aftab is a semiclassical, Hidustani, minimalist composer, songwriter and singer. She was recently awarded the Grammy for Best Global Music Performance and is the first ever Pakistani artist to receive a Grammy Award. Vijay Iyer is on of the leading music-makers of his generation. His honors include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a United States Artist Fellowship, a Grammy nomination, and the Alpert Award in the Arts. Shahzad Ismaily is a multi instrumentalist and composer.

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