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January 10, 2021 With Pagal, Ali Noor and a slew of musicians create an audio-visual landscape that is both laudable and approachable. “ / / .” – ‘Let’s Kill Tonight’ by Panic! at the Disco Long gone are the early and unusually optimistic days of Noori. Their last album that contained ‘ Aik Tha Badshah’ – the single version – was the direction they needed to follow. But as Noori admitted then, the album contained songs that had been written nearly a decade ago. Begum Gul Bakaoli Sarfarosh (BGBS) was good and upon reflection made it palpable that greater things were still going to come. As brothers Ali Noor and Ali Hamza took a hiatus from Noori to explore solo careers – even as they admit that the band is very much alive and will come back – Hamza went his own way, working with Kami Paul and Rakae Jamil for his solo record, which is in the pipeline. Ali Noor also went a different way. ....
Instep Today Sun, 12, 20 Rohail Hyatt produced an all-original yet shorter version of Coke Studio in lieu of Covid-19 with urban artists only and a crisper house-band. “We’re beaten and blown by the wind/Trampled in dust/I’ll show you a place/High on the desert plain, yeah/Where the streets have no name.” - ‘Where The Streets Have No Name’ - U2 The passing year has been a strange one and not just for music. The way we live, travel and work along with our consumption of music, has changed. 2020 emerged as the year of Covid-19, a global pandemic that made working from home and staying indoors the new normal. It also meant musicians worked digitally as technology became a necessity to be embraced. In some ways, it pushed artists out of their comfort zone irrespective of the challenges that lay ahead, leading to unexpectedly stunning new music. In other ways, it provided novel vantage points from which to look at the future of music with. ....
December 20, 2020 The growth of independent record labels, several EPs, music videos, singles and the resurrection of electro-pop in mainstream music via Velo Sound Station (VSS) and a dissimilar version of Coke Studio 2020…these were some of music’s defining moments in what has been a difficult year. Meesha Shafi has made three appearances on Coke Studio, with two on Velo Sound Station and an independent single with Abdullah Siddiqui, making this a very successful year musically speaking. – Photo by Ali Shah. “We’re beaten and blown by the wind/Trampled in dust/I’ll show you a place/High on the desert plain, yeah/Where the streets have no name.” ....