Naarm/Melbourne-based composer, vocalist and multimedia artist officially joins NM with a new single, 'op.1 ādam' - streaming everywhere from mid-September.
Flittering open with its arpeggiated petals and subsuming sub bass tones, ‘op.1 ādam’ immediately breathes through Jadu’s layered autotune vocal gliding across the stereo field. As the bass then relents in waves, a constant arp progresses with tactile kineticism into playful squelching, while obtusely room mic’d flute and clarinet snake into focus. The group’s intertwining of its decided strands of assiduous synthesis and acoustic performance acts as a means of dimension-building, creating a split-level structure; the fabric of which we are slowly drawn into, in between and released from, as though passing weightlessly through the Magellanic Clouds at a velocity indiscernible between lightspeed and subatomic stasis.
Featuring contributions from Mildlife's Adam Halliwell on flute, composer and clarinettist Aviva Endean and longtime AJ collaborator Emma Ovenden on synths, 'op.1 ādam' is taken from a forthcoming full length 'SICFWYLF' released on NM in 2026. Over 5 years in the making, 'SICFWYLF' marks Aarti's first album release since her much loved debut 'L'Ecole De La Caz' in 2022.
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released September 16, 2025
Aarti Jadu Ensemble
Emma Ovenden - synth
Aarti Jadu - vocals and synth
Adam Halliwell - concert flute
Aviva Endean - clarinet
Writer / Production: Aarti Jadu
Recording, Mixing + Mastering Engineer: Guy Louis Faletolu
Recorded at Sydney Road Studios
Created in Wurundjeri + Whadjuk Country and Skies.
The making of this project was supported by PPCA/Creative Australia funding.
