YouTubing is a great pastime; it keeps you up to date and enlightens you about so much going on around. While randomly watching videos on Youtube just the other day I came across Inqishaaf’s latest video ‘Keh Daina’. But who is Inqishaaf, you might ask and I wouldn’t blame you if you do because they haven’t yet taken the music scene by storm yet, but their first album is out now. Let’s see how the album changes things for Inqishaaf.
Inqishaaf is a band [if two counts as a band] of two members with Shoaib on the vocals and Shariq on the guitars. Shoaib and Shariq belong to urban Karachi and started making music four years ago. Quite serious about music from the beginning, these two performed at gigs and other local platforms covering songs by other singers, until they decided to bring out something of their own. That’s when they started working on their first album, Khawabon Aur Khak Ki Kahani, which is out now.
Inqishaaf’s music conveys a broad array of emotions. Their music is a blend of sentiments such as love, anger, hate, solitude, serenity, romance and fear and while the greater purpose of their first album is to entertain the masses, it also hopes to connect with the audience in some way or the other.
Released by Iron Records, the first track of Khawabon Aur Khak Ki Kahani is ‘Bhuladoon Ga’ that starts with a very sweet yet catchy tune which is a blend of melodies from the west with eastern melodies. The song talks about the hope to forget, moving on in life and memories that hold the beautiful past. This track is definitely towards the melancholic side yet the tune isn’t that slow and hence something different but nothing very appealing.
‘Kismat’, the second track in the album talks about luck and how it can ruin one’s life. The singer complains to God for taking his love away and his cursed fate and asks what mistake he committed for deserving all that has happened with him. The song is a mixture of high and low notes that make the song stand out.
‘Kismat’ is followed by ‘Ehsas’, the third track in the album and a very clichéd name for a song considering it has been done before. Honestly, if you keep Atif Aslam’s ‘Ehsas’ in mind before listening to this one, you will be highly disappointed so it’s better not to do that. If heard without any preconceived notions, however, it is not that bad and eventually grows on you.
‘Keh Daina’ is another slow track that talks about forgetting fake love and trying to find true love that doesn’t give pain! ‘Keh Daina’, even though is another slow song, is the highlight of the album. It’s the kind of song that makes its impact upon hearing it once and that’s probably the reason why InQishaaf recorded its video before any other track! The video is out on Youtube and this is what made me listen to the entire album.
‘Andheri Raat’ starts with just slow guitar chords initially which blend into the lyrics perfectly. The guitar chords mix with other vibrant sounds when the singer complains [yet, again] about his fate and how love betrayed him! The music and vocals are perfect and go along with each other, while the beautiful yet monotonous lyrics stand out making ‘Andheri Raat’ another strong element of the album.
By the time the next track, Raks is played, any listener would have had enough of slow, sad, melancholic songs and this one is exactly that again. ‘Raks’ is a dark monologue of a lover in distress. It is nothing special to write about had they not included the song in the album it would have been better since the first album is very critical! You can easily pass this one without listening and you won’t miss anything.
‘Aye Khuda’ is a different track in the album with a sufi touch to it, which makes it poles apart from the rest! The lyrics revolve around asking God to teach how to cope with this world now that He has created it. The singer goes on to ask himself why he couldn’t manage himself alone.
The last track in the album, ‘Kuch Aisa’, takes you into the fantasy world of lovers where the singer talks about things that he wished could happen! The tune of ‘Kuch Aisa’ is a very groovy tune with elements of alternative rock in it. It surely is worth listening to but nothing to remember and put in your top songs playlist.
Had there been a little more variety in the album, it would have been a much better album! ‘Kismat’, ‘Keh Dena’ and ‘Andheri Raat’ are the highlights of the album. Listen to them if you want to but the rest can be easily ignored.
YouTubing is a great pastime; it keeps you up to date and enlightens you about so much going on around. While randomly watching videos on Youtube just the other day I came across Inqishaaf’s latest video ‘Keh Daina’. But who is Inqishaaf, you might ask and I wouldn’t blame you if you do because they haven’t yet taken the music scene by storm yet, but their first album is out now. Let’s see how the album changes things for Inqishaaf.
Inqishaaf’s music conveys a broad array of emotions. Their music is a blend of sentiments such as love, anger, hate, solitude, serenity, romance and fear and while the greater purpose of their first album is to entertain the masses, it also hopes to connect with the audience in some way or the other.
‘Keh Daina’ is another slow track that talks about forgetting fake love and trying to find true love that doesn’t give pain! ‘Keh Daina’, even though is another slow song, is the highlight of the album. It’s the kind of song that makes its impact upon hearing it once and that’s probably the reason why InQishaaf recorded its video before any other track! The video is out on Youtube and this is what made me listen to the entire album. 
The last track in the album, ‘Kuch Aisa’, takes you into the fantasy world of lovers where the singer talks about things that he wished could happen! The tune of ‘Kuch Aisa’ is a very groovy tune with elements of alternative rock in it. It surely is worth listening to but nothing to remember and put in your top songs playlist. 
