Articles with tag: Music
Behind That Voice!
Sheharyar Malhi Sep 21, 2008 interacts: 20Jagjit Singh is a man with many attributes – a great singer, a passionate artist, a social worker and most of all, a humble, down-to-earth man.
Music: Muslim Madonna
Arun Reginald Jun 29, 2008 interacts: 51Performing seated alongside notable ghazal maestros of the subcontinent was the eight years old Deepika Thathaal known by her stage name Deeyah.
Mumbai's Farida Khanum Fiasco
aakar patel Nov 2, 2007 interacts: 8Pakistani singer Farida Khanum sang in Mumbai on Friday night for the first time in her 72 years at a concert memorable also for being embarrassingly organised.
Identity and Synergy - Classical Music and Film Song
V S Gopalakrishnan Oct 15, 2007 interacts: 10The popularity of film songs is at a peak today, irrespective of the quality of music. In stark contrast, classical music is getting less patronage and popularity.
Back To Idol Worship
Abdul Majeed Oct 13, 2007 interacts: 37Are musician (so-called marassis) the only people left on planet earth to be our idols? Aren't there people like Naom Chomski, Stephen Hawking even Dr. AQ Khan to be our idols?
Book Review: Killer Tune by Dreda Say Mitchell
Arun Reginald Aug 24, 2007 interacts: 5What is race? Is it the colour of our skins, or the faith of an individual, or is it the rebel within?
Why Atif Aslam works
Daniyal Bilgrami Jul 2, 2007 interacts: 20'If the color blue could take a voice, it would be that of Atif Aslam'
Live Earth - A lesson to be learned
Hussain Shafiq Apr 19, 2007 interacts: 3There should be a series of concerts that can take place in all major cities of Pakistan and they should carry ONE message, so that the awareness of that issue is raised.
An Evening with Ustad Asad Amanat Ali Khan: A Tribute
Asif Naqshbandi Apr 17, 2007 interacts: 31I met Asad Amanat Ali Khan a few years ago; I didn't think I'd never meet him again.
Jaane kahan gaye voh din!
Dost Mittar Mar 22, 2007 interacts: 138But a new generation of the young and restless cine fans had replaced the old generation and they had neither the time nor the taste to savour the slow intoxication of the old style of music.
Indian Filmmaker Plucks Musical Strings in Pakistan
Sadia Fatima Dec 1, 2006 interacts: 53Khayal Darpan, a documentary film explores Pakistan's Classical Music traditions
Romancing life with a cappuccino in hand!
Rahul Sengupta May 19, 2006 interacts: 9Sometimes romancing life can be fun!
Expression of Freedom: An American Invention
Feroz Qutabshahi Feb 18, 2006 interacts: 25Jazz, like all things American, is “in-your-face”, it is uninhibited, it’s like two gay teenagers kissing in front of their homophobic parents. It’s like you running into your grandma in a Victoria Secret store
The Mafia
Fariha Rashed Feb 10, 2006 interacts: 15This ‘hardcore mafia’ hangs out at all important events and parties taking place in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. They usually comprise of a group of people already very well known and established in the music industry
Beethoven’s Funeral
Feroz Qutabshahi Dec 8, 2005 interacts: 25Just as a lot is changing, so is Metal. Heavy Metal has evolved into various other genres with each considered a legitimate musical expression in it’s own right. If music is food for soul, then Metal is raw meat for some and blood and gore for oth
Songs of Dissonance
Aisha Sarwari Nov 25, 2005 interacts: 117Out of all the tragedies this earthquake has brought, the loss of an educated and inspiring Junaid Jamshed is very dehumanizing.
Music: Kofta Cola!
Nadeem F Paracha Oct 26, 2005According to renowned professor of pop sociology, Ali Azmat, man is a social animal in a social circus and whose ultimate fate is to evolve into a Kofta!
Other Side of Rabbi Shergill
Joe Athialy Oct 3, 2005 interacts: 12Punjabi pop singer Rabbi Shergill - the Bullah ke Jaane fame - talks about peace, politics, his dreams, spirituality and his next album.
Music: Peeli Patti ur Raja Jani ki Gol Duniya
ahmed hasan Sep 27, 2005Noori has launched their rejuvenation with their second album titled rather astutely or maybe just spontaneously “Peeli Patti ur Raja Jani ki Gol Duniya”.
20 Worst Pakistani Pop Songs … ever!
Nadeem F Paracha Jun 2, 2005 interacts: 82There are two kinds of bad music. Bad music by pretty okay musicians (like the ones making this list), and bad music by equally bad musicians (like the ones that would require a separate, 200ft list for which I have no time or energy).
Islam vs. Islam
Ali Hasan Cemendtaur May 11, 2005 interacts: 55Junoon concert at the Stanford University, held on May 1... If there is such a thing as a clash of civilization, it is all happening within the Islamic sphere.
The art of Qawwali
Jibran Saithi May 1, 2005 interacts: 13He whirls slowly but unsteadily at first-like a pirouetting dervish intoxicated with the very rhythm that moves him-in concert with the rising and falling intonations.
Music: www.sarangi.info
Taimur Khan Jan 28, 2005Free download of carefully selected Indian Classical music performances by the great masters
Hi, I’m Zehra, Your DJ for the Evening
Zehra Rizvi Apr 8, 2005 interacts: 13I am told this is how desi DJ’s start. A rites of passage of sorts. Just make sure it is a passage and not the end of the hall. You play at a desi wedding. You watch the drunk uncles swing around the aunties and come and ask you for the 7th time
Music: Junoon – 15 years Discography
Nadeem F Paracha Dec 12, 2004Sour Fifften: A decade plus five of flip flop!
Music: Rabbi
Veeresh Malik Dec 14, 2004I don`t know about technical brilliance and electronic wizardly... but I know what will be playing in the nightclubs and soirees in Delhi this winter.
Socio-political History of Modern Pop Music in Pakistan
Nadeem F Paracha Dec 13, 2004 interacts: 29A complete chronology of influences on Pakistani Pop music and the rapid trend to being 'globalized'
Should I stay or should I go?
Nadeem F Paracha Nov 6, 2004 interacts: 16They say channels like Indus Music and Musik are the two leading reasons behind the quantum growth of pop artists and bands seen in the last two years or so. Is this also why GEO is now planning to come up with its own music channel, AAG?
Soul Dance
mahnaz alam Oct 20, 2004 interacts: 4Back in the day.... music was my life ... it was magic for me.. my body just moved no matter what it was ... i was free in this world
Vide ’made’ the Radio Star
Mehreen Malik Oct 9, 2004 interacts: 3In the Pakistan video industry, love isn’t considered sincere unless it is professed with a sachet of your favourite paan masala in hand...
A Booming Industry?
Nader Thiasi Sep 30, 2004 interacts: 3Growth in the new media industry remains one of the more dynamic sectors, even in developed countries. But with breakneck liberalisation of media policy, Pakistan has of late witnessed an extraordinary revolution in its media industry. As television, and
Tuning Into The WWW
Umair Mohsin Aug 31, 2004 interacts: 3Commercial radio or Television channels may be going down the tubes, but Internet radio is alive and kicking.
Indian Classical Music in Lahore
Navin C Khilnani Aug 30, 2004 interacts: 110The Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth (SPIC MACAY) in its desire to spread its wings to the SAARC countries has gained another success. The society is sending a 15 member delegation to Pakistan with 10 artistes in t
Music: Origin
Xoheb Sheikh Aug 12, 2004Before 'Fallen', there was the 'Origin'... a much better effort!!
The 20 Best Pakistani Pop Songs … ever!
Nadeem F Paracha Aug 6, 2004 interacts: 79Fuzon are still a new story and if they keep their egos intact and don’t fall early for the glitzy and amoral ways of corporate pop, they have a future that can only become bigger and better.
The Rock Star and the Mullahs
Bina Shah Jul 9, 2004 interacts: 51Salman Ahmed is a man on a mission: to challenge Pakistan’s hardline mullahs on why they believe music is not allowed in Islam.
Music: A Compilation for the delusions, illusions & confusions of today’s youth
Nadeem F Paracha Mar 22, 2004Don’t expect anything “awesome, dude!”
Music: India Chalo!
Nadeem F Paracha May 1, 2004Ali Azmat, was at the World Social Forum held recently in Mumbai
Haraam Bombay
Farzana Versey Apr 28, 2004 interacts: 40It wrenched my heart to see the city of my dreams and my life look like a patheticwax work. They talk about tits as though Bombay does not know about them.
Music: Controversy
Ras Siddiqui Apr 18, 2004Track 11 “Give it Up” is somewhat juvenile.... It will certainly get this CD banned in Pakistan.
Prudent Rosy Knew My Vital Signs
Urstruly Mar 5, 2004 interacts: 47There are other men too…thousands… passionate… but smoldering like soaked wood… plenty of smoke to burn others eyes but not enough heat to warm one heart -… Sami…. promise me you’ll never change.
Music: Vital Signs Discography
Nadeem F Paracha Feb 15, 200415 years ago, in a land tucked far, far away ...
Music: Mayfair Fusion Candy
Nadeem F Paracha Feb 4, 2004Pakistani pop`s latest corporate-pop casualty!
Junoon Ltd.
Asif Memon Jan 10, 2004 interacts: 32Who knows, maybe Junoon will release some better music soon. Hopefully the cola hasn’t gone to their heads. They might even prove me wrong with a good english language album.
The 20 best local pop albums … ever!
Nadeem F Paracha Dec 9, 2003 interacts: 47The production and creative qualities of VS:2 have helped it to sound as modern as anything done with the help of far more advanced recording facilities today, even after twelve years when it was first released.
Kalapini Komkali & Shewta Jhaveri
ahmed madani Nov 26, 2003 interacts: 54Kalapini Komkali & Shewta Jhaveri are a breath of fresh air. I came across them recently and would like to share my impressions.
Music: Pakistan kay Cencorshuda Ganay
Nadeem F Paracha Oct 27, 2003From MMA land ... Milk (for) Honey!
Music: In Praise of the Last Prophet
Asif Naqshbandi Aug 14, 2003A truly international mixture of nasheeds and naats in praise of Allah`s Beloved Prophet in English, Arabic, Malay and Urdu by artistes from around the world.
Music: Deewar
Nadeem F Paracha Sep 9, 2003where does Junoon’s eagerly awaited new release belong in the sweepstakes of the premier Pakistani rock band’s long list of albums? A detailed review of the new Junoon album and past works
Music: Rough Guide to the music of Pakistan
Zalan Alam Sep 2, 2003An excellent introduction to the World of Pakistani Music
The Sheep Dilemma
Madiha Waris Jul 31, 2003 interacts: 48I just HAVE to meet another of those alarmingly-increasing-in-number pseudo intellectual freak-shows with all the latest best selling Kamila Shamsie
Music: Jaisey Chaho Jeeo
Nadeem F Paracha Jul 1, 2003Najam Shiraz`s (big-selling) but contradictory, Jaisey Chahoo Jeeo
Ghalib In California
Ras Siddiqui Jul 14, 2003 interacts: 7To those of us who still retain the ability to “feel in Urdu” while writing exclusively in English, a Bazm gathering sometimes becomes a “must try to attend” part of our social calendar
Music: Suno Kay Hum Hain Jawan
Nadeem F Paracha May 23, 2003The long-awaited album by Pakistan`s to 'Alternative Rock' act.
Music: Afternoon Ragas
Asif Naqshbandi Apr 24, 2003The best classical Hindustani instrumental music I have ever had the joy to listen to. Perfect. It is said that 'With this raga (Bhimpalsri) you can make the animals cry.' And on this evidence it is true.
Music: Kalam Pir Sayyid Mihr Ali Shah (rahmatullah alayhi)
Asif Naqshbandi Mar 7, 2003This contains a number of famous naats in PUNJABI by Hazrat Pir Sahib, one of the greatest Sufi saints of the Punjab and an accomplished naatiyya poet including the immortal naat, 'kithay Mihr Ali, kithay teri sanaa/Gustaakh akheeN kithay jaa aRiyaan' [Wh
The Headless Chicken Returns
Headless Chicken Feb 26, 2003 interacts: 26After having gone incommunicado, Headless Chicken returns, almost incoherent, of course -- 'you would do the same after a week on the road in Pakistan, owwwwwow baaabeh!'
Music: Music of the Rivers
Aamir Ansari Feb 18, 2003One of the Soundscapes series, transmuting nature into music.
Music: Qasida al Burda (The Poem of the Cloak)
Asif Naqshbandi Jan 29, 2003This poem became legendary even in the author`s lifetime and is now without doubt the most famous laudatory poem in the Muslim world in praise of The Beloved Prophet.
Music: Asma ul Husna
Asif Naqshbandi Jan 16, 2003A spiritually uplifting and beautiful collection of famous naats in Arabic rendered by a singer with the voice of an angel!
Torkham to Wagah
Headless Chicken Jan 16, 2003 interacts: 76Here is something from memory of past experiences. I hope you’ll enjoy reading it.
Music: Entity Paradigm
Saba Ali Dec 16, 2002Hamesha is the released track of Entity Paradigm`s unreleased album.
Intellectual Dishonesty of Pakistani (Pseudo-) Liberals
Syed Alam Nov 1, 2002 interacts: 135The article discusses the confusion in Pakistani liberal class. A number of issues have been discussed which mark these differences.
Silk Route
Shaista Khan Sep 30, 2002 interacts: 101I tried to assure him that I'm also a muslim but he still looked doubtful.
Ha Ha To the Axis of Evil Speech
Malik S Khar Feb 17, 2002 interacts: 113Four years ago I crossed the Qaser-Shireen border on foot from Iran into Iraq
Cauldron of Chaos at Charring Cross
Rozaiba Aug 14, 2001 interacts: 9um dha ras, dho ropay dha glass, dho ropay dha glass, garmee thoun nijaat pao, jism nuun ttand pao, dho ropay dha glass, dho ropay dha glass…
Karachi Dreams
Shandana Minhas May 18, 2001 interacts: 25Karachi thrums like the strings of an electric guitar
An Accent in Kashmir
Murad A Baig Aug 5, 2000 interacts: 84Cliches can be awful but one can apply every cliché in the book and utterly fail to describe the beauty of Kashmir
Vignettes from a Short Trip to India
gymnosophist Jul 15, 2000 interacts: 76I must admit the beginning wasn’t auspicious at all
We The Proud Pakistanis
Tariq Aqil May 21, 2000 interacts: 48We possess a strict code of honor and a time-tested spirit of bravery and valor.
The Interview
A Shiraz May 17, 2000 interacts: 51If woman display her beauty she asking to be raped. She advertizing her beauty just like a pastry in a window shelf. . .
My Ode to Rishtay
Arshiya Khan Jul 29, 1999 interacts: 90I-think-I’m-in-a-bad-Indian-movie-with-Amitabachan
Music: Star Rise
Bina Shah Sep 30, 1998Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brooks` Night Song Remixed.
Fun-Da-Mentalists
Amar D Dhindsa Jun 16, 1998 interacts: 3An interview with Aki from the hard hitting, dare we call them, British Asian band Fun-Da-Mental.
Cool Desperation
Saad Shafqat May 19, 1998 interacts: 23I took inventory of my assets and launched the struggle to be cool.
A Day in the Year 2030
Amir Husain Feb 13, 1998 interacts: 6The closest any one had come to developing this kind of technology was the US Voyager IV project.
Pakistan A in England: A Review
Abdul Hussain Aug 26, 1997Mr Hussain reviews the mixed bag that was Pakistan A’s summer outing.
From One Chowkwala to Another
Ashim Banerjee Aug 26, 1997 interacts: 2A chowkwala joins the stream of consciousness started in Say Something … Let’s Talk, . Why not wade in yourself?
