Mauj

Artist: Mauj Band

Song: Mona

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Dance, death and all their friends
The newest musical act on the scene – Circle of Trust – is out with their debut record called All Night Long and it’s not one you can put your trust in. With deathly dull beats and weak and clichéd lyrics, the duo disappoints. Instep lends an ear…

By Maheen Sabeeh

Circle Of Trust

Artist: Circle of Trust

Album: All Night Long (Electronic Dance Music)*

Shehryar Tariq's version of "Teray Ishq Nachaya" was a powerhouse of a performance - Photo by Kohi Marri

The venue has played host to some of the greatest music projects in the history of Pakistani pop. Image-maker extraordinaire Nabila had hosted a show that was an eclectic mix of art, fashion, folk and rock ‘n’ roll and had the audience seated in a circular seating arrangement with the band right in the center of the performance area. Making a formidable team with Ather Hafeez designing the costumes, Zain Mustafa for art direction, some of the best musicians in the country contributing to the music – Emu (keyboards), Shallum (lead guitars), Khalid (bass guitar) and Gumby (drums) – along with vocal talent in the form of Positive (Nazar and Yousuf), Saieen Tufail and Shehryar Tariq, Nabila made sure that the event was an experience that appeased and excited both the visual and the sound sensibilities of those present.

Gunkali

This is a well-deserved, happy time for Kaavish. Just several weeks into its much-anticipated release, the band’s debut album, Gunkali, is slated to be the first hit album of the year – and not without reason. The band perhaps spent as much time working on their album, recording (and re-recording) it in the studio as their record label took to release it. Gunkali – which is defined as a morning raag – is a labour of love that began its journey towards its audience when Kaavish released their first ever music video, the Umar Anwar-directed Bachpan, and in turn giving a small flavour of the kind of music the was working on.

Wardrobe: Sonya Battla for Meera & Ahmed Bham for Momo
Photography: Fayyaz Ahmed
Hair & make-up: Sajid
Styling: Madeeha Syed for Meera & Ahmed Bham for Momo
Male mode: Syed Mohtashim ‘Momo’ Ali
Fashion Editor & co-ordination: Madeeha Syed

Source : BandBaji

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MAUJ

Mauj’s album, Now In Technicolor has finally seen light of shelf! While the album had been released digitally for a while, Mauj, who had signed up with Fire Records, towards the end of December ’09, had seemingly resigned to fate regarding the release of Now In Technicolor.

“No word on the release of Now In Technicolor or the video of ‘Mona’ I’ve stopped holding my breath,” Omran Shafique had said.

As of January 29, 2010, though, both album and video have been released, and may we say, ‘Mona’ the video is as quirky as one might expect from Mauj collectively, or Omran individually.

‘Mona’ has been directed by Sohail Javed and stars all the usual suspects of a music video so crazy. Anisa Sheikh, Sanam Saeed and Merium Azmi are all part of the ‘Mona’ cast, as are the band members. The storyline is something we expect will sink in after a dozen viewings, but really seems to be leaning towards the spoofy end of horror, with a demure desi brides of Dracula type of sequence.