An innovative jazz pianist, a Grammy-winning Urdu vocalist, and an inventive multi-instrumentalist get together for an album that sounds like nothing else out there. Aftab collaborates with jazz pianist Vijay Iyer and synth player Shahzad Ismaily, balancing her melismatic voice between entirely percussion-less, almost ambient soundscapes. The trio formed in 2018 and developed their sound through improvisatory live shows. That same intuitive process informs Love in Exile, with each of its seven compositions building undulating textures as if establishing an onstage atmosphere: the opening three minutes of To Remain/To Return features Ismaily’s keening synth trills and Iyer’s slowly developing piano phrase without a whisper of Aftab’s voice; Sharabi luxuriates in creating a 13-minute dark and angular synth palette.
| A1 | To Remain / To Return |
| A2 | Haseen Thi |
| B1 | Shadow Forces |
| B2 | Sajni |
| C | Eyes Of The Endless |
| D | Sharabi |
