Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily: Tiny Desk Concert
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Nate Chinen | May 12, 2023
Around the midpoint of Arooj Aftab, pianist Vijay Iyer and multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily's Tiny Desk concert as the trio Love in Exile, Aftab steeply intensifies her vocal outflow, generating a spirit of lift within the music. It's the cresting of a wave, in a sense, but no more inherently vital than the accumulating swell period, or the ensuing glide. For Aftab and her equal partners in the project, every musical offering arises from a slow-motion flutter of collective actions, which renders each passing moment unique.
That's a fanciful way of saying what the music invites you to understand at gut level: this group makes music strictly for the moment, creating a shared language in real time. As its members explained this spring, before the release of their entrancing self-titled debut, this highwire creative model is rooted in acute listening and mutual trust. Whatever the gesture - when Iyer plays a somber, strobing figure on Fender Rhodes piano, for example, or Ismaily wobbles a line on electric bass - it can be seen as an invitation. This performance, a marvel of concision by Love in Exile standards, extends a similar courtesy to any receptive ear.
SET LIST
"Eyes Of The Endless"
MUSICIANS
Vijay Iyer: Fender Rhodes, piano
Arooj Aftab: vocals
Shahzad Ismaily: bass, Moog
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bob Boilen
Director/Editor: Maia Stern
Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Maia Stern, Kara Frame, Sofia Seidel
Audio Assistant: Hannah Gluvna
Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer
Tiny Desk Team: Suraya Mohamed, Joshua Bryant, Marissa Lorusso, Hazel Cills, Ashley Pointer, Pilar Galván, Jill Britton
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann
#nprmusic #tinydesk #vijayiyer #aroojaftab #shahzadismaily
Im a first generation born Afghani American woman and I saw you and dragged all my friends to your set. Amazingly beautiful. So happy for you in that moment and all of us brown woman🎉❤❤. Congratulations on tiny desk !
It's Saturday, late at night, you are a little bit high and then you find this piece of art❤
Translation:
Ras ke bhare tore nain, Sawariya
Your eyes are full with nectar, O Beloved
Din nahi chaaen, raat nahi nindiya
Day without tranquility, night without sleep
This music began before the time and place in which it was expressed, and it continues even if we are not willing or able to discern it’s presence. This music began before a single soul was conceived and continues after all souls cease. Music unheard, permeates and molds lives, deaths, loves, ignorance, pain, joy, wisdom. It is music of all times and places and of neither.
beautiful comment
🔯🕉️☮️☮️☮️🌻
Beautifully written! It’s what I was thinking, but didn’t know how to verbalise.
Its presence. Learn about apostrophes.
@@judeirwin2222It seems to be inevitable that when someone expresses a heartfelt sentiment a crotchety vibe-killer like Jude Irwin appears to whinge about something completely inconsequential. Like The Dude (sort of) says, “You’re not wrong, you’re just an assh*le.”
Thank you NPR for putting out such fantastic performances and wonderful music
Besides the incredible music, Vijay's blazer is killer. Going to have to try and find one like it
The levels of skill, trust, and imagination displayed by these musicians is truly sublime. Thank you for sharing your incredible gifts.
Sublime is the exact word!!!!
So lucky to be able to find the voice of Arooj Aftab, now for the second time. A voice that promise us hope.
Vijay Iyer is one of the most mesmerising improvisational artists out there. To anyone watching this, I cannot recommend enough that you check out his album Uneasy with Linda Oh and Tyshawn Sorey - it’s one of most powerful examples of art as resistance I’ve experienced!
I am glad to find such talented artists through this video and your recommendation. Thank you 🙏.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Thank you!
Far from over - Graham Haynes (cornet, flugelhorn, electronics), Mark Shim (tenor sax), Steve Lehman (alto sax), Stephan Crump (bass), Tyshawn Sorey (drums) - 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
This music takes you somewhere.........
Shahzad Ismaily is such a tasteful and versatile collaborator
Absolutely incredible. Arooj has the most magical voice and the composition is out of this world!
I'm only 3 mins and 56 seconds in and it's very much giving cinematic music. I can totally hear this in the beginning of a movie setting the tone for a strained existence between two worlds that we will later see a battle from.
Maybe my favorite Tiny Desk Concert so far. Beautiful!!! ❤
Just felt like I was floating through that....
Wow thank you for transporting me to another place. I have added you to my playlist as well.
Listening to her on good speakers is an amazing experience, NPR again with an awesome recording!
I hope to see her live one day
I had the good fortune of hearing her twice at Big Ears recently. I wonder about this recording. I don't want to be the guy who criticizes the audio on Tiny Desk concerts b/c they are fantastic at what they do. But, I think we're missing some low-mids from her voice. I am totally guessing, but it seems plausible that the mic picked up a lot of low frequency bleed from the instruments and they had to roll that off some. I think we're missing a little bit of the lowest spectrum from her voice. In person it's even richer - if you can believe that. I find it hard to believe, and I heard it.
@@jonathanmorris8151absolutely buy that explanation. hope i can see her play again some day
Even the objects seem to listen to them
been to her concert in Berlin last November. She's just magnificent, as is her band. the guitarist played such magical tunes. 10/10 would again.
Great stuff. Wonderful delivery by the vocalist; beautiful colours created by the accompanists! Meditative and atmospheric!
Wonderful. What a beautiful interpretation of the traditional Hindustani Thumri 'Ras ke bhare torey nain' ("Your eyes full of passion").
Great vocals and really sensitive accompanists. Each one a virtuoso.
I had the good fortune to watch her perform live last night at the jazz festival۔ One word reaction، " Otherworldly"۔ Just with her voice modulations and variations، she picks you up from the depths of your soul and takes you on unknown journeys۔ My gosh، what an experience۔ Listening to her live leaves a long lasting impact on you۔ She was generous enough to stop and give an autograph and accept a gift from me۔ May she flourish even more and continue to be our guide to uncharted journeys of the soul۔ Stay blessed Arooj Aftab۔
What a beautiful voice.
So beautiful and meditative! Thank you!🙏
Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous - thank you!
that presentation was an eargasm
Beautiful. Breathtaking.A must be shared and enjoyed with friends performance. 🌺
saw them play at big ears fest... i get zoned out listening to this (in a good way)
this is great, like all of Arooj Aftab
see and hear also this:
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily - Shadow Forces
Such a pure tone ..so very relaxing.
thank you
Only artists such as these greats can bridge all kinds of cultural difference. Thank you NPR for creating a platform like this.
Mesmerizing.
Voice of an angel, I love love love Arooj ❤
OMG it's like I'm watching the greatest thriller of all time
I don't know how to describe it or what I just heard but that was awesome!!
We NEED them in our musical life.
Absolutely love Arooj Aftab ❤
Absolutely lovely
Magical, and hypnotic. Although the 2 commercial interruptions were especially jarring and unwelcome.
Yes commercials during music are much worse than commercials during a movie
Takes you to an entirely new level. Mesmerizing, contemplative, beautiful!🎵🎶🎶🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵👏👏👏
Beautiful, very beautiful.
This is ethereal, deeply stirring and so infinitely expressive.
always when she hits the in between notes i am losing it
Listen I don't know what is going on, but I got emotional.
i love this woman
I do not understand the language. However, I do feel the music all through me! Beautiful! ❤
Realmente muy muy bonito, me quedé sin palabras, gran viaje introspectivo... felicitaciones por ese arte
Amazing vox and textures. . . The sound of the Moog Rogue is like no other synth. . .
Salam from Malaysia 🎉
Arooj Aftab with Vijay Lyer & Shahzad Ismaily: Magic⭐
love form india
This is proof that magic is possible through music.
So Beautiful Chemistry and Music!
Beautiful! What an amazing collaboration!! ❤❤
This is the definition of the word beautiful.
Stunning. Brava!!!
Saw her in Philly in 2019 at SAADA concert, so wonderful to see her here now !
I saw this performance and immediately bought the vinyl. Absolutely wonderful work!
Mind. Blown.
Goodness!!!!
I'm commenting again.. I'm dead. This is the most beautiful thing I've heard in so long!!!
Cool concert 👏
Wait for it.
am going to see them this Tuesday. counting days.
magical, pacefull and beautiful
Cette musique est idéale pour une cérémonie de crémation. Elle vous transporte immédiatement auprès de Dieu.
Magical❤
Timeless and transformative.
Phenomenal ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Son unos buenasos y suena increíble. Gracias a todos los que hacen posible está experiencia. Me llegaron al alma estos músicos fuera de serie.
I saw Arooj live earlier this year. Magical!
This gave me chills!
Incredible performance.
Gorgeous. Amazing.
What a journey 👏
Mesmerizing…
that voice touch your soul, amazing!
incredible incredible mind blowing
This is fantastic
ouvir essa música com fone é uma experiência e tanto! tô flutuando
❤
The best you'll ever hear. Quite extraordinary. R.
this was magical
eyes wide shut .... awake yet asleep.. listening yet lost ... in those eyes.. incredible
Sid made me explore tiny desk and its amazing, keep bringing some sublime talents, subsccribed and spreading it.
amazing
❤ 🎶 Arooj & band are in town tonight, NJ-USA Oct5 23
Soulful music ❤
A miracle.
what a blast!
Touched my Soul! 💫
Majestic!
Commenting so I can come back to this . :)
This is mesmerizing ❤
🖤
❣️😍🌟💎🤩😘💘
Why does her voice remind me of Thom Yorke of Radiohead, in fact the whole sound
very cool :)
POV: Me strolling along on a bed of white sand vastly spread across a barren land (Shahzad) on a pleasantly cold night, while the incandescent crystals sparkle to the rhythm of the piano (Vijay) thanks to the bright full moonlight (Arooj).