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The presumption must be that in 2021 everything in pop culture, including music, has slowed down. However, having lived through 2020 when the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic had already hit the world, the music industry learned to adapt.
Though Covid-19 is still a reality that has affected live music seriously, vaccines have brought the semblance of a silver lining. Given these abnormal times, major developments took place in the overall music ecosystem.
“I can’t believe the news today/Oh, I can’t close my eyes and make it go away/How long, how long must we sing this song? How long? How long?” – ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ by U2
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Nikhil Uzgare is definitely not your conventional indie musician. He is a former microbiologist and is the frontman of the famous Dubai rock act, Point Of View.
His band opened for Guns N’ Roses. Now, he is the first-ever Hindi artiste to make a splash on the Universal Music, Middle East & North Africa (MENA) roster, with the solo release ‘Inteha’.
The Mumbai-born singer-songwriter and composer worked on the song during the lockdown in April 2020 after keeping the basic composition locked away in his mind for almost three years.
Once the track was ready, he shared it with his friend Neeraj Shridhar (of pop group Bombay Vikings fame), who added finishing touches to its mix and master.
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KARACHI:
Frontman of KW & the Facedown Movement and lead guitarist of former prog-rock band Qayaas, Khurram Waqar has launched a venture for the ‘greater good’ of Pakistani musicians.
In these hyper-digitalised times, it is only fair for artists to form online communities instead of affiliating themselves with associations to help boost each other’s work. And amid the pandemic, when aspiring musicians have no one to turn to and live performers, nowhere to go, it only makes sense for the maestros to direct the lost and confused.