Tuesday, August 10, 2010

NO country for music

I was just shuffling my i pod that i realized my liking for Pakistani music .....it seems weird but i have far more songs by Pakistani artists than Indian artists...and i don't feel that its something wrong ...
i have liked the likes of jal ,strings ,fuzon , junoon and other such artists from quite a long time...and i don't feel bad admitting that somehow Pakistani pop or fusion music is in a way better than Indian pop music...as is the fact that Indian cinema is far better than its Pakistani counterpart...its not a point of dispute or argument but more about acknowledging the things..People in Pakistan are way more bonkers over Indian movies than us and far less critical about the movies than us..and here we give the Pakistani singers more admiration than they get in their country.. All of us are indebted to people from across the border who have lent their voices to the movies and made them such a hit,its surely a deadly combo Indian cinema +Pakistani singing .....perhaps that's the reason why there has been this wave of Pakistani artist coming to India for mainstream commercial action...i mean they get acknowledgment ,fame and much more money..people revere them ,whereas in their own country the bands as junoon have always courted controversy for the kind of music they play..i feel that's the reason for there passion for music ..its like when you are subjected to so much subjugation that you feel more strongly about the things. Music was in a way always like that...with the times when music and music videos were banned in Pakistan in the 80s the music kind of came back with a force and rigor after the ban with bands exploding on the Asian circuit...strings and junoon most prominently..i remember listening to sayonee way back when i was a kid ,the music video seemed weird to me that time but the music was even then contagious...
The whole Sufi impact is there to be seen...the music is more about the soul...the voices are better and original from nusrat fateh ali khan and abida parveen to strings and rahat fateh ali khan ,there is this simplicity and easiness about the songs ...i can go on about the charm of their music......there have been so many occasions in my life that the songs are always running in the back of my mind ,are on the tip of my tongue...totally express my feelings at that time.....Times when you don't feel like sharing anything with anybody ,you find refuge in the music ...these are THOSE kind of songs..
Despite all the persistent problems in the country the music is still blooming and reaching out of Pakistan to show that everything is not as murky as thought of...

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