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FIRST PERSON: Reading into songs
By Halima Mansoor
Photography: Waheed Khalid
Over a year ago, Co-VEN came out with Volume One and Two (in one edition) and now their third album is almost ready to be released. Untitled as yet, the album is bolder in terms of arrangements, compositions and once released, will possibly be the only brazen, much needed intelligent socio-political rhetoric on the shelves. The single Ready to Die is on air and the video is in the works.
Speaking with Hamza, Sameer and Sikander in Omar Hussein’s studio where they recorded this album, there was a desire to understand the dynamics between being a niche band and a marketing plan. The boys obviously want to be heard and the way their album is sounding, the new material should. Is the creative cost of throwing in a formula pop track worth the possible addition in audience? Not really, according to the band.
“The formula is boring” Sikander puts it, when they can create music that’s verifiably their own, which according to Sameer, is getting “nothing but positive feedback”, their path to success is going to be the one less-travelled in Pakistan