Radiance All Over With Coke Studio 3

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Sadaf Fayyaz

Coke Studio Season 3 BannerThe coke studio season 3 is all in the air and a hot topic these days. The exciting season marks with Noori, Meesha Shafi, Karavan, Arif Lohar, Arieb Azhar, Abida Parveen, Zeb & Haniya, Saba Shabbir, Zoe Viccaji, and Sanam Saeed. Sanam and Zoe could be seen as the backing vocalists this time. Abida Parveen outshines the show with her mystical and deeply enriched style in “Ramooz-e-Ishq”. One cannot comment or critique on her performance and chic. She sounds miraculous every time. Simply don’t have words for it.  Zeb & Haniya steal the show with their highly applaudable “Bibi Sanam”, with Dari origin and saccharine Dari accent. After Pichal Pairee, one comes to realize this time the dominant vocals of Meesha in “Alif Allah”. Arieb Azhar has been able to envoke the original style with and sounds a bit extra this time with his cavernous, touching and poignant style. The magic of Abida Parveen and richness of Zeb & Haniya truly make the show magnificent. Karavan makes the show radiant with beautiful songs from their rocking album “Saara Jahan”. Asad Ahmed, whose marvelous music surpassed the act outstandingly, shared very blissfully,

Asad Ahmed“The coke studio sessions presented us with an opportunity to do some songs from the new album in an acoustic setting as opposed to the regular ROCK shows that we are famous for.In essence it made us rely on our songs rather than the sheer pandemonium that is a Karavan concert. Plus I think it’s kind of cool to appeal to a larger audience with songs like “Yaadein’ and “Kaisay Mumkin Hai”. I also must give props to the members of the house band as well as the girls on backing vocals they were all stellar. All in all is a great experience.”

Arieb Azhar who appeared in the first episode of Season 3 shared his views,

Coke Studio – Season 3 has outdone itself. Even in the previous CS projects the level of professionalism was unparalleled in Pakistan, but this time, I feel, the content also is stronger and more rooted than before. This time it was an honor for me to perform alongside musicians, many of whom have been inspirations for me in my personal musical journey.”

It’s just a start of an expedition. There is still more to come. The episode 2 would air on 20thf June with EP, Zeb & Haniya, Noori, Amanat Ali, Fakir Juman Shah and Rizwan Muazzam. Stay tuned to it everyone, especially CS fans.

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