Last Night
Arooj Aftab * Track #4 On Vulture Prince
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Last Night by Arooj Aftab
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Last night is the second lead single off Arooj’s 3rd studio album, Vulture Prince.
The song itself came about from a jam session in her Brooklyn apartment in 2011.
Taking words from the famous mystic poet Jalaluddin Rumi, Arooj writes it into a noir jazz, dub reggae song about the subtlety of seei...
Last Night Lyrics
Last night my beloved was like the moon
So beautiful
Last night my beloved was like the moon
So beautiful
So beautiful like the moon
So beautiful like the moon
So beautiful like the moon
So beautiful like the moon
Even brighter than the sun
Maang le bande tu
Tu apne maula sey
Khaali gaya na koi
Oon ke dar sey
Maang le bande tu
So beautiful like the moon
So beautiful like the moon
So beautiful like the moon
So beautiful like the moon
Even brighter than the sun
Grace far beyond my grasp
The rest is silence
Last Night Q&A
Who wrote Last Night's ?
Last Night was written by Rumi & Arooj Aftab.
Who produced Last Night's ?
Last Night was produced by Arooj Aftab.
When did Arooj Aftab release Last Night?
Arooj Aftab released Last Night on Fri Mar 26 2021.
What is your songwriting process?
I think my obsession with things like displacement, reinvention, exile, chaos, queer modality, feminism and just like, the maddening fabric of love and loss and tragedy in the world really, really influences how I sing, what instrumentation I choose, how I need the music to ebb and flow, and what ly...
How did the song come about?
I was actually hanging out with some musician friends at my apartment on martense st in flatbush brooklyn. i think it was 2012. we were in a jam session kind of mood and my buddy started playing just like, a reggae skank vibe on guitar. i mean, we were spliffing and listening to a lot of dub at the...
Who/what are your musical influences?
you know there’s quite a bit of jazz influence since i went to berklee and studied jazz theory so you know your ella fitzgerald, billie holiday, nina simone, abbey lincoln, stan getz, etc. all in there. on the pakistani side abida parveen, reshma, begum akhtar, nusrat. i love mariah carey, meshell n...