This year’s most anticipated album ‘Junoon-20 (Volume 1)‘ is finally here. The Sufi rock album which consists of 20 tracks, features talented artists like Aag, Alison Sudol, Bilal Khan, Fifi Haroon, Laal, Nusrat Hussain, Outlandish, Peter Gabriel, Rohail Hyatt, Shahjehan of The Kominas, Shubha Mudgal, Usman Riaz and Vital Signs, has now been released on iTunes.
The album costs $9.99 and the proceeds that will be raised from it will be donated to help support the efforts of Salman and Samina’s Charity for Education.
The volume 2 will be out soon!
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3 replies on “Junoon 20th Anniversary Album Volume 1 Released on iTunes”
hey guys if u didnot make any new songs then dont give your songs to other bands.
The 90s was the best period for Pakistani music scene. Just imagine that we grew up listening to Vital Signs, Junoon, Strings, Karavan, Najam, Awaz, Ali Haider. Even a few songs from Collage and Fringe Benefits were classics. These bands at that time had a passion for music. They did not worry if the album would sell or not, they just made music from their heart. And we had some pure genius composers in Rohail Hyatt and Salman Ahmad.
Boy have things changed. Everything is now commercialized. When I first heard about Junoon’s 20th Anniversary album, I got excited…really excited. It had been a while since Junoon came up with any thing fresh and new. I also found out that some new talented artists would reprise some old Junooni hits. And I just couldn’t wait to get my hands on the songs. Well, after listening to the songs there is one thing that is missing…Ali Azmat!!! Junoon was a band and one of the members can’t just go ahead and do any thing that he likes. I am a die hard fan of Junoon and I am quite disappointed. Yes, some songs are great…Usman Riaz’s rendition of Saeein is brilliant. But this is not a Junoon album. It is a Salman Ahmad album.
First Vital Signs betrayed us by not releasing that final 5th album and now Junoon (or I should say Salman Ahmad) has betrayed us by not including Ali Azmat. Yes, we have some new talented artists and Rohail Hyatt has created masterpieces with the Coke Studio project but I still miss the music from the 90s. I just have three wishes: 1) Awaz coming back with Haroon, Faakhir, and Asad; 2) Junoon coming back for one last original album; and 3) Vital Signs releasing their promised 5th album. If this happens, all will be forgiven!