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Modular synthesist and classically-trained vocalist Arushi Jain, the artist formerly known as OSE, conjures a passage to the netherworlds in her debut single for Boxout.fm Recordings.
As synthesizers swell and filters sweep, ‘Aaj Jaane Ki Zid Na Karo’ - written by Pakistani poet Fayyaz Hashmi about the abstract nature of heartbreak through separation, and popularised by ghazal singer Farida Khanum - provides the song’s spectral point-of-departure. Snippets of the famous ghazal are granulated by Arushi and employed as percussion to form Zid's most infallible cornerstone - an interplay between the human and the mechanical.
Voices, as taut as they are tender, play metaphorical hide-and-seek with the song’s driving kick drum and cloister the listener in a womb of sound that is blatantly emotional and beautifully fragile. Arriving at a time when futures seem fractured, Zid’s combines heritage and the present to provide you the kind of salvation you didn’t know you needed.
Dearest Arooj, firstly thank you. My brother died this year n what can be said about such loss n sadness. I saw n heard you at The end of the Road in England. I spent many years in India n love all the music, poetry of your heritage. Thankyou Arooj❤️ ben1769