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Members of Pakistan band Strings say their primary goal is to please themselves
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MUSIC FIESTA Faisal Kapadia and Bilal Maqsood of Strings
When Bilal Maqsood and Faisal Kapadia – the founding and only remaining members of Strings, the most successful Pakistani band on the pop/rock scene were in India for the release of their latest album ‘Koi Aane Wala Hai (KWAH)’.
At the outset itself both Faisal and Bilal agreed that playing live concerts is the way to connect with their target audience –college students and young people in general. They consider music videos a thing of the past; it’s the internet which they consider to be the future vehicle of musical acts. They released the video for the song they wrote about Beirut two years ago, only on You Tube. When asked if they were planning to write more anti-war songs like the one about Beirut, Faisal immediately pointed out that they preferred to take things as they came. Even the song that they recorded for Spiderman-2 , ‘Na Jane Kyon?’ just happened and they were not making a conscious effort to cross-over. That has been the way since they began playing music together.
They are candid in their admission that their success in India was not the result of a long struggle – their song ‘Sar Kiye Yeh Pahar’ from their first album hit big-time in India of which they were not even aware ; when they wanted to release ‘Duur’, their comeback album after 8 years – ‘the music companies’ – as Faisal said smilingly – ‘asked us if we were the guys who did ‘Sar Kiye…’. Regarding their evolution as musicians and how it has shaped their new album, both were of the opinion that there was a certain change in the sound but it was not deliberate. They see it as part of the artistic process where its necessary for all artists to constantly re-invent themselves. Also, they compose their songs with the primary goal of pleasing themselves first.
Their message to their fans is – ‘Buy and listen to our new album. Download it only if you can’t afford it’.
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