<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>- Aarti Jadu is hard to pin down. It would be kinda played out to say she’s the archetypal restless artist. Sure she’s started her own art-rock five-piece, did an acoustic guitar and Indian folk-classical duo, has re-constructed early 1900’s Australian piano music for sampler and voice, has a drone-singing workshop practice that hires into the wellness industry, has run an all-night ambient sleep-over music festival and regularly does the seemingly-impossible with her four-voice improv. acapella choir <strong>Khyaal</strong>...but it’s still not the whole story. Just like it’s kinda naive and simplistic to say there’s a tension between Indian classical traditions and hyper-modernism running through her work, these things can be true, but contain only enough descriptive juice to get you started. So too, it only gets you to page one to say that there’s a contrast with her performance work (collaborative, embodied, overwhelmingly gentle and incremental) and this debut full-length recording: an intricately constructed, densely designed and single-mindedly auteur solo work aiming to display a different type of mastery altogether.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span>If her live performances are like elaborate sandcastles -soft, ephemeral and built up slowly and deliberately grain by grain- then this recording is something like Dubai stunt-architecture. It's kept under wraps, secretive, hotly anticipated, then revealing complexity, ingenuity and sheer ambition, an attempt to push out the limits of what we thought possible and inspire, stretch the imagination. With <em>E'cole de la Caz</em> Aarti Jadu is staking out a place with the contemporary Oz vanguard, alongside <strong>Corin</strong>, <strong>Cassius Select</strong>, <strong>Marcus Whale</strong>, <strong>T. Morimoto</strong>, or even <strong>GUERRE</strong>. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>An immensely accomplished production, yet the voice is Aarti’s central metier, the tool that allows complex ideas to be communicated directly, bypassing the inaccuracies of language, the inconstancy of tech, the option paralysis of modern production. Look out for Aarti Jadu, but look on a stage if you can.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span>- Kieran Ruffles.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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