“I know six years is a big break. But I never walked away from music. I never released an album because I wanted to do a different album, something I have never done before.” – Hadiqa Kiani returns to the limelight with her brand new album, Aasmaan and takes on the experimental genre of dance […]
courtesy Instep Today, The News published on June 16th, 2009 Holding your ground against the mighty Saeen Zahoor is no small feat. Brothers Ali Noor and Ali Hamza managed it miraculously well as they hit it off with Saeen on Coke Studio. In fact, watching Noori sing ‘Aik Alif’ was a revelation. For one thing, […]
By Martin Caballero Faisal Kapadia may be thousands of miles from Pakistan, but his country is never far from his mind. Kapadia is one-half of the Karachi-based pop group Strings, which performs Thursday at Berklee Performance Center. Since forming in 1988, Kapadia and partner Bilal Maqsood’s work as ambassadors of Pakistani pop have made Strings […]
The great gig in the sky Coke Studio returns to our screens again with its second season tonight. The playing bill for the first episode is explosive. With performances from Saieen Zahoor, Atif Aslam, Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan, Javed Bashir, Noori, Zeb and Haniya, it is a celebration of Pakistani music, an exploration of the […]
Coke Studio reloaded: The mystery of Gumby and his cage As Coke Studio hit airwaves yesterday, one saw Pakistan’s finest drummer Gumby return to the limelight as he played alongside the Coke Studio house band and guest musicians. And this year a gong and a cage marked Gumby’s presence inside the studio. ‘The cage’ is […]
“He looks just like Ali Noor’s younger version but sings just like Adam Levine from Maroon5”, said Mekaal Hasan, from the Mekaal Hasan Band (MHB) and owner/producer at Digital Fidelity Studios (DFS) in Lahore during my last trip there, “… and (therefore) we refer to him as Haroon5”. That is the introduction I got to […]
Fuzon has been living up to its second album’s title by journeying across the globe for various concert performances. The band recently performed in Rome and Dhaka, and on the heels of its recent Indian tour.
“Guitar Idol requires us to travel to UK for the live performance. I tried to figure out a way of visiting UK this month but it wasn’t possible.” – Faraz Anwar speaks on the Guitar Idol experience and why he had to pull out of the show Asra Pasha, Karachi Faraz Anwar, the man behind […]
Madeeha Syed revisits her interactions with one of Pakistan’s best guitarists. They say he is one of the greatest minds that the Pakistani music industry has ever harboured, that his talent knows no bounds. Speaking his name inspires awe from those who have only heard of him and an acknowledgement of his music virtuosity from […]
When we asked Mekaal Hasan, “Why are Waris Shah and Sanwal on Saptak Record”, these were his words: “If you remember the record that was supposed to come out was Andholan. However, since we were signed to EMI, they had no idea what to do with the kind of record Andholan was. The band had […]
