LAHORE: Alhamra Unplugged -- a modern recording studio – needs to be promoted by the Punjab government, as despite having eight original tracks to its credit it is still struggling to be properly launched, officials at the Lahore Arts Council told Dawn...
The studio, owned by the council and closed for 30 years, had been reopened in December 2015 and equipped with necessary musical instruments for Alhamra Unplugged...
As for her studio/work space, it is a medium-sized room with many large glass windows that overlook the natural greenery...
Just outside the studio is a sitting area, shaded by a large tree and surrounded by palm leaves, monstera and other plants...
Surely, Coke Studio is doing something worthwhile...
Remember Atif Aslam with a loosened tie knot and his guitar casually slung over his shoulder while belting out Jal Pari and the cameraman with the hand-held camera hovering in the background? It defined the Coke Studio attitude, in a way...
studio in Leavesden, where the Harry Potter series was shot, along with Inception and The Dark Knight, built three new soundstages and 100,000 square feet of office space...
KARACHI: It’s not a regular sight that a new season of Coke Studio gets launched with fanfare...
In the third layer the “sound” of Coke Studio was looked upon, because the programme had its own “genre”, which should not be lost...
In their Islamabad house which they painstakingly and lovingly built 30 years ago, Rahi works in the basement while Hajra’s studio is on the ground floor — which also houses their drawing room where they entertain their guests and meet their buyers...
There was a big number of young people who wanted to hear comedians Saad Haroon (Pakistan) and Sanjay Rajoura (India) respond to cultural critic Nadeem Farooq Paracha’s questions, but the middle-aged and the elderly were there in no small number either...
When the question was further pushed, Rajoura said: “We [India and Pakistan] were never tolerant...
This means, for many years, the music scene in Pakistan hasn’t been much to write home about, except Coke Studio...
The fourth episode of Coke Studio Season 8 had one redeeming feature: pop band Siege’s wonderful version of the classic folk song Khari neem...
Hamid Ali Khan’s Piya dekhan ko was okay, given the stature that the classical singer has, it is expected much more of him to push the boundaries when using a platform like the Studio...
It's that time of the week, folks: Coke Studio is releasing the fifth batch of its singles today, and the return of Ali Azmat to the platform gives us enough reason to celebrate...
This is Ali's third song for Coke Studio; 'Babu Bhai' from Season 6 was a hit in 2013, and we hope 'Rangeela' is just as delightfully irreverent...
The ‘outdoor studio’ is the creation of foundation year students of Visual Studies who took around 22 days to completely revamp the area...
“The concept is that the students should have an outdoor studio as well, because many don’t have such space at their homes...
Although Bilal Maqsood is being tight-lipped about it, the media has been claiming that the new lineup for the new season of Coke Studio is all but out...
And it includes some names that were once, according to some pen-pushers, associated with the Studio run by Rohail Hyatt — such as Arif Lohar and Ali Azmat...
Coke Studio Season 8 kicked off with a fair degree of musical fanfare...
Fluctuation in sound just to add variety doesn’t always work...
Last week, Coke Studio's kick-off was dominated by Atif Aslam's reinterpretation of 'Tajdar-e-Haram' that polarised the show's listeners...
