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01. Ali Sethi & Nicolas Jaar - Intiha
02. Ali Sethi & Nicolas Jaar - Nazar Se
03. Ali Sethi & Nicolas Jaar - Muddat
04. Ali Sethi & Nicolas Jaar - Raat Bhar
05. Ali Sethi & Nicolas Jaar - Dard
06. Ali Sethi & Nicolas Jaar - Chiragh
07. Ali Sethi & Nicolas Jaar - Lagta Nahi
08. Ali Sethi & Nicolas Jaar - Dono Jahan
ARTIST
TITLE
Intiha
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
OP 073LP OP 073LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/15/2023

Singer, songwriter and author Ali Sethi had been entranced by Jaar's music long before they began collaborating. He'd absorbed the sounds over a number of years, listening casually and taking in their subtleties in bars and rooftop parties across Lahore and London. So when the two were finally introduced by Indian visual artist Somnath Bhatt, a regular Jaar collaborator who also handled the album's artwork, Sethi was well prepared. He began to sketch out voice notes using loops snipped from Jaar's acclaimed 2020 album Telas, improvising vocalizations and seductive Urdu poems over Jaar's weightless, time-bending productions. Improvisation has been important to the Chilean artist for many years. Before he had even started making electronic music, Jaar jammed on accordion with friends on the street in New York City. It's at the core of his practice, "a moment in time," in his own words. Sethi is best known globally for his attempts to revive the ghazal, an ancient poetic form that was taken by Sufi mystics from the Arab world to Persia and throughout the Indian subcontinent, where it captivated the royal court. It's been unfashionable in the last few decades, a mannered style associated with decadence, and Sethi offers it a new lease of life through his playfully revisionist covers and renditions. Sethi updates the ghazal form by using his years of training in raga music, lifting metaphors that reflect his journey as an out-of- place queer kid in Pakistan who became a US citizen and now lives in New York City.