Artist: Fables of Cantt
Song: Believe
Album: Let’s Pretend
Directed by Autumn Starr
Music video shot for Fables of Cantt as part of the Rolling Stone‘s “Street to Stage” competition. If you like the music, please vote for them.
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Tag: Rolling Stone
Artist: Fables of Cantt
Song: Something On Your Mind
Album: Let’s Pretend
Directed by Sadanand Chhatbar
Music video shot for Fables of Cantt as part of the Rolling Stone‘s “Street to Stage” competition (round three).
Mekaal Hasan stands tall in the tight knit Pakistani rock scene which is eagerly awaiting Saptak, his band’s second album. EMI will release the album in India soon, so fans across the subcontinent will get a chance to judge how far the Mekaal Hasan Band has grown since its first album, Sampooran.
Hasan, who headlines his band, infuses Punjabi themes with Western Jazz influences. The band’s composition practically makes it a requirement. The lead singer is Javed Bashir, supported by the flutist Papu and by Hasan on guitar. Bashir and Papu come from a traditional folk and classical background, while Hasan brings Western jazz sensibilities – he was trained at Boston’s Berklee College of Music.
Drummer Farhad Humayun leads the line for Overload, one of the major bands on Pakistan’s rock scene. The band releases its second album, Pichal Paree, next month through Universal Music, and fans are eager to see how Overload has evolved from earlier incarnations: new members include Meesha, a vocalist. This is a departure from Overload’s first album, released in 2006, which was called just that – Overload – and that album had only one track with vocals: with the famous Ustaad Shafqat Ali. The band had made its mark for its pure instrumentalism.
The Darker Side of Light
Two bands. Two sounds. Four musicians. Having organised a few concerts in Pakistan, it seemed sponsors and some event managers would forget to do their math and assume that if one would ask co-VEN to play, that set list would multiply to include Mauj. It took some time for the market to absorb the fact that these two bands come with very different sound concepts, and sharing a lineup is by no means tantamount to sounding the same. Just a look at the names of the bands significantly shifts identity.