Coke Studio 5: Move to the music
Like its previous season, “Coke Studio 5” aims to focus on traditional eastern, modern western and regional music. This year featured artists will explore their heritage and play the cultural chord of their signature styles.
Moreover this season “Coke Studio” will be exploring and highlighting regional language songs and artists and will be introducing some gifted, yet virtually unknown young singers.
The upcoming season will also showcase the creative and intellectual rediscovery of artists who return to “Coke Studio” for a second time while the young artists will discover their traditional streak by incorporating parts of Sufi poetry and philosophy in their music.
Music maestro Rohail Hyatt is back at the helm as executive producer and he has chosen: Atif Aslam, Bilal Khan, Bohemia, Chakwalis, Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad, Hadiqa Kiyani, Humayun Khan, Meesha Shafi, Tahir Mithu, Overload, Qayaas, SYMT and Uzair Jaswal to feature on the show.
Hyatt has said, “Entering into our fifth season, we at ‘Coke Studio’ believe our journey continues to explore the wealth of talent and cultural diversity that we as a nation are blessed with.”
Season 5 also marks the return of the house-band with Asad Ahmed on guitar, Babar Ali Khanna on dholak, Javed Iqbal on violin, Kamran ‘Mannu’ Zafar on bass, Omran ‘Momo’ Shafique on guitar, Sikander Mufti on multi-percussions and Rachel and Zoe Viccaji on backing vocals. Joining the house band this season are two new talents: Farhad Humayun on drums and Mubashir Admani on keyboards.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 5th, 2012.
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They definitely deserve the highest national award.Pakistan now has a musical dimension.
missing gumby so much on drums! Gumby is a maestro and the pride of pakistan.
can some 1 tell me on how many channels it will show up?
Coke Studio season 5, Saanu ki?
@Faizan Afzal: so r u :)
Cant wait!
These pakistani artists are pathetic
i guess there's something going on between omran and gumby.....first omran left the show uth records and now gumby left coke studio!! they're not even talking about it...oh well gumby is not the only drummer in Pakistan.....farhad is also a very good drummer, you can listen his drumming in overload and symt! very underrated performer.
Long live Coke Studio.
It has proved beyond doubt that we have a rich culture and an imaginative minds.
We now stand equal to any one now.
Autotunners are used by Pakistani Artists more than another country :)
This Coke Studio is pure class par excellence. Am so glad and happy to see talent that comes out with genuine hard work and very little financial help is promoted so well.
Autotune is a very simple software. Its used all over the world as an industry standard for production of music. Everyone from Maroon 5, Lady Gaga & Hariharan use it. Its useful & makes the song sound great. These are modern production techniques. No harm in using them
Its getting boring now
@Puff:
Yes, AutoTune can be used live but I'm not sure if that technology exists in Pakistan yet.
Hassan: Coke Studio uses Autotuners. Also, autotuners can be used in live performances too
@andre: Because he wanted to waste his time with the useless Uth Records this time around. That's his official statement. I think he lost out on something big here.
can somebody please tell my why no gumby on drums??
@Hibah: Autotune is a common phenomena in Pakistani music industry. In fact Pakistani music industry is plagued with this Disease But in live performances it is not possible. So let us see if He used Auto tune in the past then will not be able to perform in a good manner in Live performance of coke studio.
I always thought Uzair Jaswal worked with autotune. (I know him through people and I am NOT a hater) It just always seemed like that. Nice surprise to see him here. Atleast we can witness raw talent. Excited for this season. Last season was brilliant.
Can ET explain who is Chakwali. I googled everywhere and never been able to find any reference to Chakwali. Is it a band or a singer or what.?. All others are well known but Chakwali is an Enigma to me.