Aarti Jadu

Aarti Jadu is a musician and sound artist who works thoughtfully across disciplines. Her skillful experimentation with voice, performance, and design reveals an affinity for the tradition of devotional singing and ensemble music. Jadu's sonic palette is characterised by trance-like repetitions, confounding songwriting, the use of noise and dark imagery, urban music influences, contemporary digital choral elements, auto-tuned vocals, and synths.

Jadu’s project SICFWYLF and Variations, takes a heavy, percussive track from her arsenal and teases out its elements in a new ensemble. Mantra-like melodies are taken back to acoustic and analogue instrumentation (harmonium, synth, clarinet, bassoon etc.) and played in a group, creating a deceptively simple hypnotic meditative listening space. The compositions focus on the interplay between musicians and display Jadus signature conscious repetition and restricted improvisation. In its entirety, the suite of variations span across an album set to release in late 2025 through Nice Music. Slowly metamorphing in distinction, the movements travel dynamically from spatial layering of harmoniums, to relentless lines of unison, to electronic scapes with floating woodwinds.

This ensemble features Jadu (voice, harmonium, synths) alongside two prominent musicians: George Worthy (woodwind, harmonium), an improvising woodwind player and effects wizard known for his own distinctive work; and Emma Ovenden (synth and harmonium) who is a songwriter, vocalist and keys with her own unique and prolific output as a solo artist and collaborates on Jadu’s other moniker “LE RA”. This ensemble gives voice to the natural sounds at the heart of Jadu's music, producing inventive arrangements of the work for acoustic settings.