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Sameer is out with his latest album dedicated to Sufi maestros
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This album is Sufi with a twist. Musician Sameer’s latest album Halka is dedicated to all the legendary gurus of Sufism, but the music is very young. The nine-song album is an attempt to bridge the gap between traditional mus
ic and the kind of music youngsters relate to these days. “I realised that youngsters today run away from classical music. So I wanted to create a music, which has all the essence of Sufi but at the same time is very modern. I want the youngsters to enjoy Sufi music without knowing it is actually Sufi,” explains Sameer, who is involved with the music band, Karma.
The idea of blending Sufi with rock and funk beats may not go very well with the musicians from the old school of thought. But the composer feels there’s nothing wrong. “I don’t think there’s any boundary for Sufi. Anything that comes from the heart and reaches out to the God is Sufism and that’s the principle I have worked on. Also, I am not saying it is purely a Sufi album. I have taken inspiration from it but there’s a lot of other genres of music I have used,” explains Sameer. And adds, “Just because I like Sufi music doesn’t mean I don’t do other things.”
A trained music composer, who received formal training in western classical music from Delhi School of Music, has been actively into composing jingles and giving music to television serials. He even composed the title song for the Sanjay Dutt–Tabu starrer, Sarhad Paar and The Silent Sherpa, a short film with a music album, and the title song for the upcoming film, Hum Phir Milen Na Milen, other than composing scores for documentary films.
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But why isn’t he getting into composing for mainstream Bollywood? “Bollywood is not the final destination for me. I feel when you are doing a film, you are only backstage but when you are doing a private album, you are in the front,” he answers.
It is through one of his advertising stints that Sameer met singer Abhishek Nahwal and was floored by his voice and chose him for his album.
“Though I am not inspired by Sufi but I strongly believed in Sameer’s music. Sufism is all about coming from the bottom of the heart, which it did in this case,” sums up Abhishek, the lead vocalist of Bandish.
MANGALA RAMAMOORTHY
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