You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishi Kesh Hirwe.

On September 5th, I'm going to be doing a special live Song Exploder event in Los Angeles with Boni Vair.

Justin Vernon and producer Jimmy Stack are going to be joining me on stage to tell the story behind one of the songs from the new Bonie Verre album, Sable Fable. So if you've ever wondered what a full, unedited Song Exploder conversation is like, this is your chance to be in the room. This is going to be a live event only. It's not going to be live streamed or repeated on any other night, so I hope you can make it. It's going to be at the beautiful Palace Theater in downtown L.A.

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Arujaf Dab is a singer and composer based in Brooklyn. She grew up in Saudi Arabia, but her

family is from Pakistan, and earlier this year, she made history by becoming the first Pakistani

artist to win a Grammy.

Her song, Mahabath, won the Best Global Music Performance Grammy, and she was nominated for Best New Artist.

Mahbath was first released on her 2021 album, Vulture Prince, but it's been a part of Arrida's life

for a long time. In this episode, she tells a story of how the song was first born and how it lived with her and evolved over the years before she finally recorded it. I'm not going. My name is Arouj Afthab.

My Vaparnevali is this poem written by this guy, Hafiz Hoshiarpuri.

He was born in 1912 and he wrote this beautiful poem of which I've taken some lines

and adapted them into my song,

Mhabbat. Many, many different singers from South Asia

have rendered this poem to song over the course of time.

This is legendary Pakistani singer Medi Hassan.

Mhavat Karekkaulna This is legendary Pakistani singer Medi Hassan.

I would consider it sort of like a South Asian standard. There know, like there are some pieces that are literally

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