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01. Tafo feat. Nahid Akhtar with Mehdi Hassan & A. Nayyar - Zambo Zambo
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02. Nazir Ali feat. Nahid Akhtar & Mehnaz - Life Is Dance
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03. M.Ashraf feat. Nahid Akhtar - Dear I Love You
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04. Kamel Ahmed feat. Mehnaz - Aage Bhi
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05. Tafo feat. Nahid Ahktar - Shola Sa Bharka
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06. Tafo feat. Nahid Akhtar - Naughty Boy
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07. Sohail Rana - Cobra Sway
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08. M.Ashraf feat. Nahid Akhtar - Sheeshy Ki Botal
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09. Abdul Hameed feat. Nahid Akhtar - Catch Me If You Can (Mere Liye Harr Dil Hai Dewaana)
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10. M. Ashraf feat. Nahid Akhtar - Too Ne Pyar Se Dekha
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11. M.Ashraf feat. Nahid Akhtar - O My love
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12. Tafo feat. Afshan - Wey Titly Non Par
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13. Tafo feat. Noor Jehan & Cheeku - Dil Be-Qarar Mangda Ae Pyar
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14. Kamal Ahmed feat. Nahid Akhtar - Don't Drink
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15. Kamal Ahmed feat. Noor Jehan - Jawani Meri Bijli
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16. Nazir Ali feat. Nahid Akhtar & Mehnaz - Happy Chrismis
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ARTIST
VA
TITLE
Life Is Dance!
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
B-MUSIC
CATALOG #
BMS 038CD
BMS 038CD
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
8/19/2014
2011 release. Finders Keepers/B-Music is given unparalleled access to the EMI Pakistan vaults to bring you
Life Is Dance
. Following the simplistic Bombay + Hollywood = Bollywood name game (that would in later years spawn Nollywood in Nigeria), Lollywood's Lahore based film industry was a profitable and vibrant one that found great success in the modest boundaries of its own country but was seldom savored outside Pakistan. However, the hugely important musical business spawned a bi-product that was viewed as a potential earner for international entertainment industry, EMI, which allowed talented musicians to create ambitious music with world class mediums at their disposal. Throughout the '60s and '70s this ranged from fuzz guitars, space echo machines and American and European synthesizers, but, due to the composers' indigenous roots, rarely a drum kit. Here you'll find fuzzy, scuzzy, twang-happy, spaced-out and funked-up Urdu-grooves complete with harmonium melodies and driven by some of the most random-factor, freakish, finger-numbing percussion that the South East Asian mainstream has ever had to offer. Above all, Lollywood soundtracks sound RAW! Re-imagine some of the most action packed Bollywood productions (which Lollywooders actively did) then fire the make-up department, take away the special effects budget and then improvise. The lack of gloss on a dusty Pakistani mini-LP makes for truly experimental Eastern pop music. So, it's time to meet the culprits. As an introduction, in place of R.D. Burman and Asha Bhole, we have Mr.
M. Ashraf
and his long-term female collaborator,
Nahid Akhtar
. This duo would provide Pakistan with its
Gainsbourg
/
Birkin
or its
Morricone
/
Dell'Orso
for over 20 years, recording squillions of cut-and-paste sonic collages and moog-fuelled desperate love/hate/chase/chill/kill songs mixing onomatopoeic Urdu lyrics with unexpected bursts of user friendly English language (which often elongates the running time passed the 5 minute mark) and throwing in the odd motif from a
Barry White
or
Donna Summer
hit. We also have legends like
Noor Jehan
, a national treasure and household name in Pakistan whose discography of film songs have deprived the vaults of EMI Pakistan of floor space for half a century.
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