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Hadiqa Kiani – Rung – [Coke Studio Season 5] Episode 3

This is a Kalaam written by Amir Khusro in his early years. Though there is no evidence to prove this, it is said that Khusro was inspired to write the kalaam after he met his pir Nizamuddin Auliya. He returned home in a state of ecstasy and told his mother that the world has a glow of divine radiance because he has met the person he had always been searching for. Khusro was a frequent visitor of Hazrat Meh ...

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Uzair Jaswal – Nindiya Ke Paar – [Coke Studio Season 5] Episode 3

This song was written between 2009 and 2010 by Jaswal’s older brother, Yasir Jaswal. The two brothers worked out the song structure and main component parts together at a friends studio. The song title suggests a sense of escaping and going to the place beyond one’s dreams where one is alone in his/her world. Jaswal writes about a person who is treated very badly and no one listens to what he has to say. Bu ...

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Chakwal Group & Meesha Shafi – Ishq Aap Bhe Awalla – [Coke Studio Season 5] Episode 2

Sufi Poetry uses allegorical references to everyday life to communicate a deeper, spiritual meaning. This song revolves around the life of a woman in love filling water from a well. The woman in the song is filling water but her focus is somewhere else and the words of the song are all the things she wants to say to her beloved. Traditionally this song is performed at weddings. Coke Studio's treatment encou ...

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Tahir Mithu – Pere Pavandi Saan – [Coke Studio Season 5] Episode 2

Written by legendary 18th Century Sindhi poet, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Pere Pavandi Saan tells the story of Sindhi folk heroin Sassi, who searches for her lost lover, Pannu, after he was taken away from her during their wedding night. Sassi is from Bhambore where she married Pannu - a prince from Baluchistan. After the wedding celebrations Pannu's brothers intoxicated him and took him back to Baluchistan ...

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Atif Aslam – Rabba Sacheya – [Coke Studio Season 5] Episode 2

Putting together a variety of lyrical expressions, Coke Studio sets out to create a track that can be classified as a modern form of qawali with a gradual build up to a crescendo end. Qawali traditionally borrows from various influences and verses. Aslam in this Season has merged Faiz Ahmed Faiz's critically acclaimed Rabba Sacheya with Khuwaja Ghulam Farid's universal love for God in Meda Ishq Vi Toon brin ...

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Bilal Khan – Larho Mujhey – [Coke Studio Season 5] – Episode 2

Larho Mujhey is one of Bilal Khan's recent and un-released songs. The song was written and composed by Khan and talks of a sense of determination, willingness to fight for ones self and struggle to achieve his dreams. Khan admits, " This song began as a rally for a personal cause. It was a pushback against the challenges, criticism, and the struggle; an artist consistently encounters both internally and ext ...

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Fareed Ayaz & Abu Muhammad – Khabaram Raseeda – [Coke Studio Season 5] Episode 2

According to Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad this qawali was composed by their ancestors who are descendants of Mian Samat Ibrahim, a disciple of Amir Khusro. The qawwali has been presented in Raag Bageshri and is a composition of a ghazal written by Amir Khusro. The ghazal expresses sufi philosophy, using imagery of the worldly love for a beloved as a means of representing love for God. Khusro writes that he ...

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Atif Aslam and Qayaas – Charkha Nolakha [Coke Studio Season 5] Episode 1

Charkha Nolakha is a qawwali popularized by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and performed by Qayaas in collaboration with Atif Aslam. Sarmad Ghafoor – a guitarist and producer for Qayaas and a sessions players for Atif Aslam – contacted Aslam and asked him if he was interested in doing a collaboration with the band. Initially the band fused a song from their album called Charkha – a separate song from Charkha Nolakha ...

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Hamayoon Khan – Larsha Pekhawar Ta – [Coke Studio Season 5] – Episode 1

This is a Pastho folk song that originated in Afghanistan. It is a love song sung from the point of view of a girl who is telling her beloved to come to Peshawar and bring her a black kameez and 3 or 4 fresh flowers. Larsha Pekhawar Ta has been sung by a number of different Pashto speaking artists in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The song represents Pashto culture and instills a sense of patriotism and pride fo ...

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Hadiqa Kiani – Kamlee – [Coke Studio Season 5] – Episode 1

This is a sufi kalaam written by the renowned 17th Century Punjabi poet, Bulleh Shah. The kalaam talks of the importance of knowing and understanding yourself, your conscience, strengths and weaknesses. As a Sufi poet and philosopher, Bulleh Shah emphasizes the importance of knowing yourself and your own heart as Sufi philosophy believes that God lives in the human heart and that understanding yourself is a ...

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