The video is of a band “Entity” which later formed Entity Paradigm. When the video was made Khurram Waqar used to be part of the band and the video is directed by Khurram Waqar. Later he formed Knumb and came up with Knumb version of the same song. KW is currently with Qayaas.
The Art of Mixing
With this blog, I really want to start an informal interaction with all of you whereby you get to to see the internal workings of the band, the various logistics that we face, my thought process and input in terms of songwriting,coming up with interesting parts, tracking the songs in their true essence and getting totally lost in the “art of mixing” … 🙂 If you are a musician, then mixing is a counter-productive excercise. The reason being that your concentration gets diverted from your main strength (be it vocals, guitars or drums etc.) into the intricacies of sound engineering. It looks pretty simple on the outside. How difficult could it be to record a song and make it sound close to a song from a multi platinum selling rock album?
I really wanted to share the story behind Qayaas with all of you on my blog but that is still a few more days away. Since I just can’t wait to get it out of my system, so here it goes …. This all started when OP, a dear friend was shooting a show for ARY Muzik in my studio which involved all the upcoming bands in Islamabad. That is where I heard Umair with his band Silversmoke. Both OP and myself were impressed and I knew right there that if I am going to ever work with a vocalist besides Qasim (kNuMB), it will probably be Umair. kNuMB was not going anywhere due to various logistic issues , the main being Qasim living in Lahore. By the way, kNuMB album is also written and a few tracks recorded but it is on an indefinite hold for now.
Qayaas is an upcoming band by Sarmad Ghafoor of Rungg, Khurram Waqar of Knumb and Umair Jaswal of Silversmoke. The band has already recorded it’s first album. Videos will be aired soon.
~NuMb(pronounced as Numb with “~” being silent) came into existence in early 2000. Khurram had just returned from Saudi Arabia after a year of working as a civil engineer and had come up with a lot of new and fresh musical ideas. He rejoined Entity after a year’s gap and some of his ideas were incorporated in Entity’s original material whereas a lot of the ideas would not have gelled very well with Entity’s style of music which was more towards the aggressive side.
So Khurram decided to form ~NuMb, his side project. Qasim, who was also in Entity at that time, really liked the material and also decided to be a part of this project. There was no looking back after that.Together they recorded some demos and at the same time kept playing with Entity. They performed at Lahore’s rock festival held at Alhamra Cultural Complex Hall No 1 in June 2001 along with Entity, Seth and the other rock acts.
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