The new album Night Reign follows Arooj Aftab’s breakout solo album Vulture Prince (2021), which features the GRAMMY Best Global Music Performance-winning track “Mohabbat”. Aftab has also been nominated for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Jazz Album (Love in Exile). Stepping away from, though never forgetting, the grief and loss that animated Vulture Prince, Aftab appears here with original music and in yet another form: as bard of everyday possibility, quietude, and life-altering romance, a study of the night as Aftab’s primary source of inspiration Features collaborations with Vijay Iyer, Moor Mother, Cautious Clay, James Francies and more28