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MichaelLawson Disco Se Aagay … Nermin Niazi and Feisal Mosleh in a 1989 magazine shoot in Karachi. Disco Se Aagay … Nermin Niazi and Feisal Mosleh in a 1989 magazine shoot in Karachi. Nermin Niazi and Feisal Mosleh were teenage immigrants blending their Pakistani musical heritage with Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode – and their punchy disco LP has been rescued from obscurity Tue 9 Feb 2021 04.00 EST Last modified on Fri 26 Feb 2021 06.52 EST Opening its doors in 1970, Birmingham’s Zella ...

Bandcamp / Buy Los Angeles artist Arshia Fatima Haq was thumbing through racks of dusty vinyl at New York’s A-1 Records a few years ago when a title caught her eye: Disco Se Aagay, or “Beyond Disco” in Haq’s native Urdu. Peering out from the sleeve was a teenage girl with bouffant ’80s hair, a white dinner jacket, and a Mona Lisa smile. The album was billed as “a step further in the field of disco music”; the musicians were identified in the credits as ...