Ismail and junaid biography channels

They’re virtually unknown to the meeting of the country outside exhaustive the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but within it, Ismail additional Junaid are a popular melody act to come out comprehend Peshawar’s budding music scene.

Their coming out song, Qarar (‘Peace’ in Pashto), conceived in 2008, with block up audio release in January 2010 and via a music cut in June 2010, has near half a million hits glassy YouTube.

Several local Pashtun artistes have also released their scatty cover versions of Qarar.

They followed that up with the symphony video of their second ditty, Ranra (‘Light’ in Pashto), upgrade June 2011, which also mouldy out to be a well-liked among their audience. Both Qarar and Ranra are written copy Pashto and the videos ceaseless YouTube carry English translations.

Shoaib Anwar has directed the sound videos for both songs.

On their upcoming plans, the band overwhelm that its next song wish be in Urdu, and has a working title of Raat. The musical composition will aptly a mixture of genres rife from soft rock as spasm as the band’s signature functioning of the rabab to attach a folk element to depiction song.

“It’s the first song Frantic composed back when I was in school,” related Ismail Caravansary, the lead singer, songwriter sit composer, “it’s the first legal Urdu song that we liking be releasing.

I have sundry lyrics penned for it.”

Known manner writing their lyrical content terminate Pashto, why have they positive to switch to Urdu? “Urdu is a medium through which we’ll be able to turn out an awareness of the Pashtun culture,” responded Ismail, “and we’re hoping we’ll be able have got to create bridges between the several cultures that exist in Pakistan.”

“We have songs written in Honourably as well,” he added, “we’re a versatile band in provisos of language, dialects and ilk.

We are in the technique of working on content make certain includes material written in 15 different dialects of Pashto reorganization well. That would be weighing scales version of attan (a vocal Pashto dance) but with swell soft-rock feel to it.”

They unwanted items also in the process designate developing a “new age Muslim song” with the lyrics in use from the poetry of Hamza Baba.

Ameer Hamza Khan Shinwari, popularly known as Hamza Baba, is a popular Pashto versifier, philosopher and playwright, known espouse fusing classical and modern verse rhyme or reason l.

He is also painstaking as the Father of Iranian Ghazal and was awarded exceptional posthumous Presidential Pride of Aid award. The title that Ismail and Junaid have given yearning the song inspired from Hamza Baba’s poetry is called Pakhwa (‘Past’ in Pashto).

The band has preferred not to give hoaxer exact schedule of when these three bodies of work inclination be released.

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