Closure

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2007-11-14T02:19:00.000-08:00

Such noise

2007-10-31T12:13:00.000-07:00

in life all the time don't you think?. Its like you travel through noise for months and at some point you realize you are surrounded by it. In fact you re breathing it, feeling it on your fingertips. Its the ways we escape from our own selves that builds up into this noise.

There are times though when they disappear, some moments of music are just surreal. I know some people can relate to it and some can not. Like listening to half light in your car and suddenly you feel you re not a part of the world outside the window. Clouds of sounds just make their way in and you can see so much. The desperation in every push of leg by the old man on his cycle when he is already tired and needs to go home and pray to the loneliness in the eyes of the eloquently suited young man with a gorgeous wife in his car. The lack of innocence in 14 year olds running out ready to clean any car window that might come in the way to that of fear in the eyes of the Aunty in her mid 30s riding with her husband on a bike. This spectrum of emotions seem to come through, having no relation whatsoever with the lyrical content of the song. Just the texture of the sound, the rhythm and the lack of noise.

wapis ajao, wakt hogia hai

2007-10-24T14:09:00.000-07:00

This feels very weird. It is almost like I have forgotten what it is like to sit down and write down a post. It is not like I have been totally non reflective the past year or so but I do think I am pretty much out of touch with this whole process of writing your own blog.

I am a mixture of fear and excitement. Maybe this is it. This is what I have been waiting for. The first mainstream step for my band. This is where I need to bring my A Game, work harder on the audio, find that sound we re looking for as a band for the album.

I think I have pulled myself so far away from who I am this past year or so that its hard to sit down and be that person again.

But I think, Now is the right time to bring myself back again. Maybe thats the only way I can give my honest input to the music and honesty is what any sound needs more than anything else.

To focus and push myself every step of the way and push the band members around me. A few words for the band members. In fact let this blog post be a dedication to my band members.

Junaid Syed:

The most underutilized talent I know in music. You have not heard what Junaid Syed can bring to the band sound yet. You will in the album but not in the singles released so far. He is, by far, the nicest person in the band. I can not really stress on how much I value his opinion every step of the way. It is my belief that Junaid Syed, in the next 10 years, will become one of the best musicians of this country. He will, whether the band is able to make an impact or not, make his mark not just as a skilled player BUT as a musician. He has and will continue to motivate me with the smallest of gestures. He has provided in the album ingredients, riffs, melodies and in one instance a verse that I could have never brought. That is why we will sound, inshAllah, the way we will sound when we come out with our album one day :)

Faizan Zaidi:

It was around 2.5 years ago when Usama Hasan, kya banda hai waisey usama, sent me a clip of Faizan performing Khamaj. I have felt myself attached to the texture, tone and sensitivity of this voice since than. Since day one of our jam when I pushed the poor guy to the limits [the pain in the ass that i am haha] till today. He came in and wrote the lyrics to one of the best songs in our album, i had the melody composed for ages but could never find the words which told the right story. He did. I think Me and Faizan work really nice as a team in terms of song writing. In a lot of ways he is one of the most intelligent people i know in terms of identifying the mood of a sound, giving it a word, a theme. He can come out of nowhere and inspire everyone to get off their behinds and create.

There is no voice that I love in this industry more than Faizan Zaidi. There is no voice in this industry I would rather have singing the songs I wrote

Sohail Qureshi:

The guy with principles. He will always do the right thing. I trust him to do that. I trust him to always keep us together. I trust him to make sure we do not fall apart and only mature as a band. I trust him to keep us on track with the vision that we have. I don't think a lot of people can appreciate whats so great about Sohail. I think the band can and maybe some other people too :p. He can come in with the most magical moment of grooves out of nowhere. Wait for the title track of the album to come out next year. Wait till you hear the groove in the chorus. You just wait and you will see the potential that is Sohail. Loads of potential. Our band takes a huge step forward in its sound every time Sohail adds something.

Thats my band folks. Thats the three people I want to make music with, play concerts with, sign records with, make money with. Thats the three people that I trust can evolve into something exceptional. There is no one else, no matter how much more skilled, that I would rather have. I must be the luckiest person in the world to have such great people in my band, not just musicians.

This should be the return of my blogging days. Hopefully a few months down the line, I can feel more comfortable with this again. I think its time for somethings to come back the way they were. Hm?

Have a great day everyone. and for those who haven't heard my band, you can hear the two singles from here http://www.entertherising.com/media.html

2006-01-24T05:46:00.001-08:00

O Allah, forgive us and our parents and all Muslim men and women, all believing men and women, all the living and the dead, by Your mercy O the most Merciful.

I will not be posting here for a while, there wasn't any substance here anyay.

Take good care of yourself people and all the ones who love you.

P.S: Sidrah likes our song, thats a biggie i tell you :)

2006-01-16T03:47:00.000-08:00

ohboi ohboiohboiohboiohboi

ohboi oh boi ohboi!

ohBOI!

OHBOIOHBOIHOBOI!

*big cheesy grin*

2006-01-09T09:30:00.000-08:00

Jesus Christ people! this is not a personal blog and my posts might mean more/something else than 'boo-hoo, I wanna die' :|

2006-01-08T12:59:00.000-08:00

Maybe you would like an explanation, but who wouldn’t, and nobody gets what they like all the time. You should be so lucky that you don’t get what you don’t want either, how’s that for a perspective? Though you never really asked

2006-01-05T13:50:00.000-08:00

Phoebe: Patience is the road to understanding, which is the key to a happy heart
Joey: you.blow.me.away.pheobe.buffayyy
Arafat: me too! :O

2005-12-31T23:45:00.000-08:00

Listening to Red House Painters - Have you forgotten

When a mother gives birth to a new born, she sees a part of herself infront of her
doesnt she...spends lifetimes taking care of it, watching it grow old, making sure at every step she doesnt go wrong, that she doesnt go wrong.

and as she goes through her beautiful adventure full of sacrifices and passion, she grows in her a dream, a perfect person in her mind i.e her child based on what she beleive is right and based on what she holds holy. and like every next mother in a our region, basing all her happiness on how that dream will come true one day.

and when the time comes and you are not acceptable, let alone loved, for who you truely are, rather only acceptable and loveable if you are the opposite of what 'you' beleive, who can dare blame the mother?

its you who is breaking her dream.

Hello

2005-12-29T06:31:00.000-08:00

So it is with all desires and affections, all loves and fondnesses which people have for every variety of thing---father, mother, heaven, earth, gardens, palaces, branches of knowledge, acts, things to eat and drink. The man of God realizes that all these desires are the desire for God, and all those things are veils. When men pass out of this world and behold that King without these veils, then they will realize that all those were veils and coverings, their quest being in reality that One Thing. All difficulties will then be resolved, and they will hear in their hearts the answer to all questions and all problems, and every thing will be seen face to face - Rumi (Translated)

Listening to Pachelbe - Cannon. All the lovely people reading this, take a few minutes out of your precious minutes and download it :)

Lately i have been composing a lot, all kinds of stuff...i dared venture into classical style of music without knowing the ABCD of music theory and it was quite beautiful. I MUST get the violins lessons now, the only problem being how to execute the whole plan as a secret!

It is hard to beleive another year is about to end...what a year it has been heh...'pretty good year' as tori sahiba would say.

Having said that i am So looking forward to the next year...there is so much i want to do...music, documentaries, videos, books. So much we as a band have to do.

For those who have listened to Beethoven would see how much this shows in his music

but what a humiliation when one stood beside me and heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone heard the shepherd singing and again I heard nothing, such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art it was that withheld me, ah it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon me to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence - truly wretched, an excitable body which a sudden change can throw from the best into the worst state - Patience - it is said that I must now choose for my guide, I have done so, I hope my determination will remain firm to endure until it please the inexorable parcae to bread the thread, perhaps I shall get better, perhaps not, I am prepared

it was a will written by him to his brothers found much later after his death, it is unimaginable though, what he must have gone through as a deaf person.

if someone is not afraid of death, does that mean he is really brave and has reached a state of understanding where not many have or does it mean he sees death as means of release from his today which he is not strong enough to face. a coward not strong enough to kill himself?

it is lovely to meet people who are passionate about one thing or another, to be around people who want to share something they have with all honesty and energy specialy when we live in such a plastic plastic world. child like passion and honesty.

there are times when i have in my own head this whole orchestra running which, fogive me for my lack of modesty, sounds so very beautiful. and i let the moment stay for a while since i know i am not able enough to translate it whole infront of me but i can play it in my head for a while, play with the melody, let the crescendo run wild for a while or make the violins dance in circles with each othere. I remember once i did that for an hour, heh.

There is lack of triumphant music these days i feel...i wish to take a less 'darker' direction in my future endevours, be more grateful for what there is around us. sometimes small things are so beautifuly joyful. like walking in the street of gawalmandi having a moment all with yourself and knowing under this cloud and above it exists someone who loves you more than you can ever deserve. or being in a car just before night sets in and approaching an underpass with not so many cars around and sigur ros on the deck. and approaching the climax, the uplift of the underpass just when the climax hits in the music under the beautiful under pass lights. i love under passes, i want to make a video under them heh. the lights are lovely.

Anyway, Ahmed was reminding me today how much haters i have, it is almost not funny. i mean am i that bad? :( by haters i mean on the musical fronts. Sadaf would agree to me right here, haina? kisee kee bad dua nah lag jaye mujhey

kher, this update was long due and i am sorry that i disapointed you with a long boring rant (what did you expect :P), i feel something big is waiting for you and me. that 2006 IS the year, i can feel it in my bones. you and i are meant for bigger things, better things. you and i are meant for greatness.

inshAllah.

Godspeed all you lovely people :)

the big news!

2005-11-18T21:45:00.000-08:00

so a week ago when im just leaving the class i get a phone call fromt his ali...

Ali: Hello, i am ali from geo, am i talking to arafat?
me: (all excited but pretending to be all cool) uh yeah, how can i help you ali
Ali: yar my creative team just heard your song and loved it and we want to do your video as well as an episode which will be kind of like a day with the rising, i want to know what you ahd in mind when you wrote jhoot
me: blah blah...

:D

so the past four days have been one of the most tiring days of my life. the geo team had little time and a lot of shots...on one day we woke up for the shoot at 5 45 am and kept going around lahore for shots (for the day with the rising) than reaching at a law at 3 am (next day) totaly fucked up where they ask us to jam so they can record it and we give the most fucked up performance as well (wait, make it the second most fucked up now, haha (abhi batata hoon kyoon))...and we pack up at 6...kher kal was the performance video shoot..which was AMAZING...but we were so frigging tired...darmayan we took a khaney kee break and went and perfoemd at this very very gay crowd (except a few lovely people who i met) and we gave a pretty average performance withouta ny effect processor lol uskaye baad..to the shoot again where the director was pretty pissed cuz we were late..ab i wont go into the details of how the sset was and what we were doing..but i THINK..this might just well be a pretty nice video.

oh and also had a fight with faizan who thought we shouldnt have performed if we had a video shoot AND if the crowd was like what it was like...oh and other than that this girl aisha over here was singing in the soundchekc, she has a really nice voice, very pleasent

so any way we packed from the shoot at 4 am i think...slept for a couple of hours got back home and now writing this. more updates later.

2005-11-16T06:02:00.000-08:00

Listening to Lifehouse - Everything.

you probably would not understand, if you did, it would be less special. ofcourse, every next story is special, no person is ordinary, every eye has a lot to it. moon is just illusioned that it knows a lot. the world is covered in secrets, the sound we hear is noise, the real story prefers to stay behind silence. sometimes it decides to reveal itself in the most beautiful of moments. rest is just noise, nothing else.

can you draw the line between what is real and what is just a fragment of your imagination? i sometimes dont. i am a strong beleiver in imagination and fantasies. there is this piece i made once, a long time ago when i entered this whole music thing, which i still love a lot. i think its the most 'imagination' based piece i have ever made, its available in bad mixed version in the link at the end if anyone of you want to hear, its called 'if wishes were horses', nothing too fancy, but definately very honest.

its time we stop mourning in black. you and me are. thats good enough, beautiful moments come and go, some stay with you forever, some define you, some break you and some make you. when you come across something so beautiful that it becomes eternal even if it goes 'away' on the surface, you are lucky. somethings are more beautiful because they are a bit 'away'. that there is a sky between you and your perfect world. your imagination.

because at the end of the day when you close your eyes, and use your imagination, like you did when you were a kid and wanted to visit disney land, you can go there, you can be 5 and play with your childhood friend who died, you can be 18 and tell your mom you always wanted to say you are sorry, you can go and rediscover yourself, join your other half waiting for you there and embrace your beautiful self.

stay safe friends.
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http://www.soundclick.com/closure (in music ->if wishes were horses if anyone is interested what i was going on about heh)

2005-11-13T10:29:00.000-08:00

Listening to Tori Amos - 1000 Oceans

Yes, buhut dair karkaye update kaya hai blog but i have something big to tell...BIG BIG :D...but not yet, just give me a few days and i will let all you lovely people know :)

other than that been listening to a lot of tori amos and trying to arrange some stuff here and there for other tracks...its really hard these days to find the peace of mind to start working on the other tracks we have.

i wish i could rob a bank and start recording the album because i am excited already, even if its at least 8, 9 months away...i am just excited because i have high hopes from myself and the rest of the band...i already spend so much time setting the sound in my mind. the closure influence is going to be there, definately but in a more subtle way i guess.

no one has given me any audio clips yet...:/...i need them man..i have this instrumental almost ready just need some clips.

so what else, yeah a few days to go before we hit the studio again for the next song.

why has everyone forgetten about rushk? and the brilliant album...the sound was so fresh and there was definately so much originality lyricaly and musicaly in their stuff...they should have a website waisey...many people havent even heard their album which is sad.

am i the only one who thinks tori amos' latest album is REALLY poor in comparison to her previous stuff...i mean absolutely speaking it still kicks ass but i had so much more expectations, its just not tori amos in sound..i guess she has entered a new phase in her life after her marriage...a more happier phase maybe? and maybe she needs more time to find brilliance in that dept heh.

but jo bhi hai..tori amos tori amos hai...if i had to name one artist who had the most influence on me as a musiciain, not particularly musica'ly' tu it would be tori amos. her whole personality and how she dealt with things that happened to her as a woman is inspiriational.

song recommendation, tori amos - me and a gun, if this doesnt grab you by your balls tu phir i dont know what will.

tata for now...the weathers getting pretty cold so make sure you people tkae care of yourself.

oh and yes, the whole 8th concert incident we are so frigging over that :)...to be honest it has made us all in a very 'lets just kick everyone's ass' mood.

yeah so the deal is

2005-11-07T23:31:00.000-08:00

that we have been cut off from the concert at the last minute.

opiate's bass guitarist, hamza ilyas, co organizer calls me up says, its a matter of his 'ana' (pride, ego) that he cant let us perform if opiate isnt performing. i talked for ages telling him there ar epeople coming to see us, we have the word around and he says it isnt his issue, jahanzaib should have let them perform as well and now no one will.

i dont know if this is a wrong move http://www.entertherising.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1054#1054 but i really didnt feel like giving a bullshit cover up like i was told to do so.

lets play politics!

2005-11-06T05:23:00.000-08:00

Listening to Godspeed you black emperor - providence

i hate it.

i absolutely hate the way things run.

its a fucking charity concert for fucks sake have some fucking soul!

and i am becoming such a hypocrite too...yay a round of applause for me too...here is to a new, improved and shining arfu. :)

and if anyone has any audio clips of mourning people from the earthquake or any audio which kind of translates what happened at the time of the incident or the aftermath, please let me know.

bye you better, purer people :)

great recording!

2005-11-02T09:05:00.000-08:00

we had a show recording with CNBC today...the inernational channel who are expadning themselves in pakistan mid november...they recorded us jamming on jhoot, gardish (karavvan), aitebar (vital signs), and a blues instrumental (in which we improvized like hell and went amazing) but at the end they told us they are going to play the studio version of jhoot behind clips of us jamming. wtf lol but still was great...they asked some questions at the end about how upcoming bands and underground bands had no social acceptance...i was trying to hint them that we are not an underground band lol but what the hell :D

it went great, faizan had a fucked up throat but after drinking tons of alaichee mixed water mixed honey and what not he was amazing on vocals.

i am dead tired and really really down with flue, whole body aching, just thought i update everyone.

thanks for the good luck comments in the last post :)

bye!

bad timing, bad timing

2005-11-01T11:09:00.000-08:00

me sohail and faizan have a really bad throat, cold and fever.

me and sohail kee kher hai but NOT faizan...why?

cuz we have a god dam interview on a really BIG upcoming channel TOMORROW and faizan will have to sing jhoot on the acoustic and right now he sounds like atif aslam :/

he is drinking all sort of weird things to get it right, and we are hoping on a miracle :/ kher dekho :D

other than that we have no place to jamhahah we have no prep for 8th :D and we are really nervous!

more tomorrow, i have to catch some sleep

and yes, take a minute out and sign this petition

2005-10-30T00:32:00.000-07:00

Listening to Tori Amos - Baker Baker

empty days.

i wonder where i am headed, the whole deal with trying to go mainstream is full of these dirty, ugly politics. saying that i dont feel very satisfied in a lot of ways things work around here would be such an understatement.

there is no time for reflection these days, thats why they are empty. its like you paint your hollow days and lives with these fake colors, hah. i just hope there stays somewhere within me a pure musician that manages to stay away from the effects of the 'music industry'.

i went to zulfi's studio the other day with faizan, junaid and sohail, played him a couple of our songs and he kept insisting we record soon since he really loved it. they are different from jhoot, i dont know if thats a good thing or a bad thing? i have told myself i will not hold back musicaly in this one except for the time length factor. and i will definately define the sound of the song.

other than that we are playing on 8th in KC with all the mainstream acts, which is really cool if we can pull off a nice performance over there. ali zafar, ep, call, jal etc are performing so our play list will have to be small obviously.

Musicans are Cowards
Godspeed you black emperor - The Triumph of Our Tired Eyes.

take care fellow bloggers and stay safe. :)

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2005-10-23T10:00:00.000-07:00

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mukammal tasweer?

2005-10-14T11:43:00.000-07:00

CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO ENLARGE

ok so from left that is Sohail (Bass), Junaid (Lead Guitars), Me, Ahmed ( a friend), Faizan (Vocals)

now im not chupa howa heh but i usualy like to stay that way so bus aik kafee hai

In other news I somehow dont have a lot to say...packing clothes in the college when you reach the children category and you have an almost palm sized shirt in your hand with a bear on it...that kind of mutes any word that might have been there in your head for all this.

Collapse The Light Into Earth

2005-10-10T10:16:00.000-07:00

i won't shiver in the cold
i won't let the shadows take their toll
i won't cover my head in the dark
and i wont forget you when we part
collapse the light into the earth

porcupine tree - collapse the light into the earth

Pictures for the far far away people :P

2005-10-08T11:50:00.000-07:00

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Faizan a few minutes before we go upto the stage

The Rising!

Hi!

2005-10-07T09:56:00.000-07:00

hello fellow bloggers...i have been away...

sub saye pehley tu psnob jee, thanks for asking i have been very much arright :)

i have NOT been all busy and shit (thats what usualy people think if you dont post on your blog)..i have just been..um..i really dont know what the right word is..i have been 'trying' to be busy and away from people/pc...anything...i really dont know why but lol...

and..we had a gig...chota sa...and it went so very amazing...the crowd was chanting our name...chanting for jhoot...when the chorus for jhoot came, everyone was singing along and it was such an amazing feeling when you know that so many people know the words to the song that you wrote...faizan was great, junaid at guitars was good too...i messed up keyboard parts in gardish...the play list was short just two songs...karvan - gardish ka cover and our own jhoot but it was fun..it was a LOT of fun...specialy teh fact that we got so much respect was amazing.

other then that im just doing a lot of music...not studying, which is very very bad.

and other then that...the rising ka forums are coming VERY VERY SOON!

take care of yourself everyoen and happy ramadan :)

Godspeed love.

2005-09-14T08:48:00.000-07:00

'When the whispers fade away
The darkened evening turns to day
Somewhere when our years are grey
Forever is for me.'

see you...not tomorrow...not the day after...not the next year...not the next life.

just...

see you.

13th

2005-09-13T08:59:00.000-07:00

today is a 'happy' day, although you and i are both sad...but you are stronger...werent you always the stronger one?

cant beleive how much things will change (on the surface) from tomorrow...

so the new noori album is out..it is so cool...ali noor is a really nice song writer, very original style of writing, the melodies all seem too dangerously familiar at times heh..but i like the album and mairey laug is my favourite...kher pretty nice nice

oooh ooh i got this really neat neat news but im not allowed to say anything till its confirmed :P

The performance

2005-09-10T22:37:00.000-07:00

the response...just one word...

woah :|

shor!

2005-09-10T00:37:00.000-07:00

days are very empty these days, i could have ranted on the blog but this be public public and besides my ranting is getting old too.

other then that i just wrote a song 5 minutes ago in the shower...that shower and sohails place i have made my best stuff so i am hoping this will turn out arright :P

and i am performing jhoot in the welcome ceremony in fast tonight...a girl from my class is singing, me and sohail being the only two rising members from the college are on the acoustic...we could have done a plugged version but i didnt want to give an average show since neither me or sohail are 'guitar players' as such...i will try to record the performance and upload..it will be 'fun' i dont know about good

other than that...3 days left. :)

HAHAHAHAHHAHA

2005-09-06T09:45:00.000-07:00

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

this guy has been calling me for few weeks from islo, says he needs help with compositions that he will give me lyrics if i can make hima song..that he will pay..i was like sure thing..(it takes 2 mintues to come up with any jalish melody trust me)..so he was like shall i write the song right now? im like ok :S..he goes what he has in mind has similarities to jhoot lyrics but he has always had them in mind and he will mail me in a day

and this is what i get :D

Ye RAAG bhi ek aag hai
Is aag mai jeelaine do aaj mujhe
Andhere mai bhi ek justujo
Marlene do aaj mujhe

Ye bekhudi barti gaye
Kho jane do aaj mujhe
Is pyaar ke khumar mai
Pee laine do aaj mujhe

Ye duniya bhi ek khuab hai
Tordo aaj isse
Ye dilagi bhi ek noor
Beh jane do aaj mujhe

Is raag main jee laine do
Lumha lumha aaj mujhe
Ye raag bhi ek aag hai
Is aag main jeelaine do aaaj mujhe

anyways..iv been posting bull and nothing past few days..and haan asfand..i will proly upload the song on 14th

20.

2005-09-01T13:06:00.000-07:00

i cant beleive this...i am 20?!

thats old yar..

last year...has been so much though...literaly feels like 10 years, the past year...so MUCH has happened in the past 9 months, the rest of my life seems like an uneventful joke compared to the indian movie my life has turned out to be these past months.

but at the end of it all, the chaos, the realities, the tragedies

there is always this beautiful light dancing in your eyes. :)

lala land

2005-08-30T22:02:00.000-07:00

i really dont know what to write these days...one of those rare phases where i am totaly disconnected to myself. i think

kher our equipment is coming on 10th so yay for that...its been such a bit of an issue ever since khizar left for canada out of nowhere (his room was disney land for me...sitar, harmonium, tabla, flute, keyboard, three eelctric guitars, two acoustic guitars, bass guitar, huge ass amps, processors)...but junaid is such an ass, he underused the budget because he couldnt think of SMALL things that his uncle could have brought here (luggage problems)...HELLO?...E-BOW?...MY FAVOURITE GUITAR ACCESSORY!

other then that we finaly went to junaids other house in a freaky place in saminabad and opened up a basement htat hasnt been opened for 8 years with all the windows closed...it was all dark we didnt bring a torch for fun muhaha, were using cell phones..junaid freaked out and ran away...the place was freakier then i ever saw in any movie...the scariest bit was when i stepped down from the last step and splash my feet stepped into 8 inches of water :S...the whole place seems like some pshyco killer resort...height of coolness yaar..kasam saye...phir junaid ko daraya..he is so naiive...me and faizan pretended that i was taken over by ghosts..poor guy was already saying that his mom says there can be ghosts in there (the place IS scary waisey)..he totaly freaked out started screaming ARFU KAYA HOWA>..LETS GET OUT FROM HERE...:P

that wasnt even the funniest part...its when i threw a wrapper in the air and it landed in his lap in the dark...he ended up screaming and running like hell muhahahahahahah...PUSSSSSSSSSYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! :D

so all we need to do now is clean up the basement inside 10 days and yeah also work out the electricity supply.

there is a really pervy named plugin in my sequencer called..."boobass"...hahaha..its for sequencing bass lines :P

itney masks pehen liye hein maye naye bhenchod...i wish things could fast forward 2 years from now

um

2005-08-26T11:48:00.000-07:00

download demo work of a few minutes of pagal pana

i dont know what lies ahead, what i do know is i am no longer strong enough.

Jab Asiman Bhi Toot Parey Ga.

2005-08-22T09:03:00.000-07:00

Like so many frosted reveries painted upon a winter window

i could never love life and death as gracefuly as you.

Day 2 After Release

2005-08-20T11:11:00.000-07:00

:: PMR TOP 10 Audios ::

1. The Rising - Jhoot
2. Akash - Aaj Phir
3. Khawar feat. Faiza - Bundeya
4. Gamak - Koi Baat Kaho
5. Sur - Aankhien
6. Naqsh - Pal
7. Roxen - Tu Phir Aao
8. Kain - Qaid
9. Saturn - Raakh
10. Taab - Qadam

email us ur fav Top 10 on ' top10@pakmediarevolution.com
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that was quick :D.

now can someone PLEASE give me a creative idea on the site name? :S www.therising.com.net.info NOTHINGS availab.e..www.the-rising.com.net nothigns available..i HATE www.bandtherising.com OR www.therisingband.com

HELP!!

Day 1 after release.

2005-08-19T07:43:00.000-07:00

2107 downloads in the first day and a half. :) pmr owner tells me he has NEVER seen so much traffic on the site in a single day.

fm89 contacted me telling me they are playing our song...still havent heard it on the radio though.

things seem to have taken a good start...

i think.

The Release.

2005-08-18T10:49:00.000-07:00

Download Here

Lyrics:

Yeh khawab jo they kharey
Kirchee kirchee hokey girey
Yeh raat bhi hai ik jhoot
Yonhee soney dou aaj mujhey
In dairon maye nachtein rahein
Ik sirey kee justujoo
Yeh roshnee bhi hai ik jhoot
Bund rehney dou aaj mujhey

Phir Kyoon Hum Sada
In Dewaron Maye Rahein
Phir Kyoon Hum Sada
Apnee Maut Jiyein

Safar-e-Dard kaye yeh rastein
Kabhi khatam yeh hongein nahin
Yeh rastein bhi hein ik jhoot
Gum hee rehney do aaj mujhey
Surkh rungg kee yeh mittee
Mirey khoon saye rangee howee
Yeh zindagee hee ik jhoot
Tanha rehney do aaj mujhey

Phir Kyoon Hum Sada
In Dewaron Maye Rahein
Phir Kyoon Hum Sada
Apnee Maut Jiyein

Phir Kyoon Hum Sada
In Dewaron Maye Rahein
Phir Kyoon Hum Sada
Apnee Maut Jiyein

If you likey like..join the community and comment on it :)...spread it around EVERYWHERE.

http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=3880056

Mixing Shixing!

2005-08-16T22:01:00.000-07:00

Forced removal by 'some' people. :)

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2005-08-15T22:27:00.000-07:00

'If you're a thought
you will want me
to think you
and I do
and I did' - Scarlet's Walk (Tori Amos)

A common victimized woman in pakistan really knows how to hide her scars...how to dress her tortured self in a pretty perfect smile...she has mastered the art all too well.

Its funny how happiness is always one step above to where we stand. on one hand there may be a woman whose best day would be when her drunk cheating husband comes back home late night, he doesnt beat her up like every day...she has accepted the daily routine drinking/cheating...she would be so grateful if one night he doesnt physicaly torture her.

On the other hand a woman who has the most responsible/respecting husband...yet she might feel her marriage lacks color and passion...and hence expecting a bit more all the time then just respect/responsibility from her husband for happiness..

always one step above.

فباي الاء ربكما تكذبان

Then which of the favors of your Lord will ye deny?

unfortunately...so many God...so many.

more delay.

2005-08-13T09:21:00.000-07:00

I am frustrated. :)

in the darkest of hours i yearn for a glimpse of your soul

2005-08-11T05:55:00.000-07:00

download here.

:S

2005-08-09T00:54:00.000-07:00

so she gets 2 As and a C...i dont know how but she just does...:S..i mean imagine you signing divorce papers going to lawyers every day DURING your A level exams staying up all night NOT studying but being messed up in that shit till the morning every day and every night (getting up the next day to give the papers)...and still getting 2 As...but ofcourse she will get the usual beating up and the usual shit and a more awfult treatment then me or you can ever understand for the C.

ofcourse me was an integral part in her getting the C as well...er but kher :S coming to the other side of the pretense-'ful' universe :D

dredg - catch without arms is a pretty neat album...also been hooked to some sins of they beloved stuff...really nice violin melodies

i heard a song bandeya out of the shoaib mansoor movie coming out...and i noticed the lady's voice (NOT IN THE PATHETICALY DONE ENGLISH PORTION) in the chorus is VERY nice...the lyrics are pretty neat shit..they could have done more justice to the song...

i want to compose OSTs for movies :( *sigh*...

...

in quiet cold the rain will pour

..

and if you want something fresh to breathe download the first video here
http://rectangular.org/explosions/video.htm

wild horses

2005-08-07T10:34:00.000-07:00

beautiful song by tori amos...one of my favourite tori amos numbers...

spent a lot of time composing today...was nice...had lunch with my ex religous studies teacher as well...had a great time heh...gave him all of my new music...he pwnd me with all his eastern classical music knowledge lol...

come wednesdayyy..come.

and we will kick every band's ass out there \m/

no hero in her sky

2005-08-06T02:41:00.000-07:00

it was just you...and you alone.

and you were dying.

Ibteda - II

2005-08-05T02:41:00.000-07:00

so this is the revamped blog...none but two knew about the last version of this blog...decided to delete all that and start a public one

hopefuly with less self indulgence.

the song is done, almost mastered and inshAllah in a couple of days it will be out...whoever in the general public has heard it thinks it kicks majos ass :D...and yes i think its pretty nice too :P...just need to adjust some levels/eqs here and there and we are done.

other then that me and usama came up with some really neat post rock shit...ill finish that up and upload it too!

oh and zeeshan from IM on the fringe msgd me saying he thinks my closure stuff is excellent so yay.