Re: Jal in India!
o c'mon rukhsar, he aint THAT bad.
The Numero Uno band of Pakistan, Jal, who performed in the city on Friday, left spectators asking for more.
Pakistan band Jal performing at Bandra.From a local street urchin to the businessman in the high rise, all fervently seem to hum that heart-rending track, 'Woh lamhey' in every nook and corner of this dynamic city. It's the flavour of this season, the song on every radio station, the blare of every stereo-system in the fly-by-night cars and even forms the unpretentious whispers of one to his beloved.The creators of this phenomenon, the Numero Uno band of Pakistan, Jal took the audience by storm for the first time in India on Friday at the amphitheatre at Bandra. The hour and half performance of the songs from their debut album, 'Aadat', released in India by Hom records with their enthusiastic grooving to the foot-tapping music and indomitable spirit left the spectators enthralled…only asking for more.
The young trio recently bagged the Indus Music Award for the 'Best Band of 2005', in competition with Strings, Fuzon, Josh and other popular Pakistani bands. The band consists of 23-year-old Gohar Mumtaz, the lead and rhythm guitarist, vocalist, composer and lyricist; Farhan Saeed, the 21-year-old lead vocalist and Shazi, the bass guitarist. Their sound primarily falls in the pop, soft rock genre. Playing along the lines of Latin acoustic guitars, their main emphasis is on melodies and lyrical content. "We truly believe that music is the world's universal language capable of bringing, entities even nations together. We feel home here in India. The response has been so warm and motivating that we want to only make soulful music that you cannot live without!" said an unrestrained Farhan, the singer with a distinctive vocal style that showcases a gentle vulnerability and tenderness.
"We want to be like Jal- water, that makes its way wherever it goes, our work is straight from the heart and we thank Allah greatly for his grace … as such success can only be His gift, candidly confessed Gohar, who formed the band in 2002 at Lahore composing his first song by the name 'Aadat' and began his search for like-minded musicians. "To meet these two, from different cities and then being so appreciated by the masses back home is all luck and destiny, with our willpower and talent too." On being asked about the fact that the film 'Zeher' stole the accolades by the remix of their track, they said, "Initially we were hurt but now people do know that the song is our original composition. We met Mr. Mahesh Bhatt and he told us that he was misguided…and also the two versions are completely different."At the end of the concert, Jal signed several autographs and clicked pictures with eager teenyboppers, as they excitedly shouted for attention, to be called on stage. The trio was here from Pakistan with a peace-note and receiving this overwhelming response in just five days they decide to make a trip back to the city in the first week of June. "As for now we go back to give our exams in Pakistan and then globe-trotting to several cities to perform," said Farhan is doing his computer science course.
source: cybernoon.com
its about time JaL got some credit.
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