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Coke Studio launches
much-anticipated Season 6
Cok e
St u di o
to
release
its
of
Season
6
Booti”
by
is
Second
featuring
Abrar-ul-Haq,
s et
Episode
“Ishq
di
“Laage
re
Nain” by Ayesha Omar and “Tori Chab Kalenin Burcu Muyam” by Rustam
Fateh Ali Khan and Turkish Vocalist
Sumru
Ağıryürüyen. The Second Episode of
Coke Studio Season 6 will air on
24th
November
across
all leading broadcast networks nationwid
e.
Abrar-ul-Haq makes his Coke Studio debut in this episode with “Ishq di
Booti”, presenting a composition rooted
in folk rhythm, which when brought onto
the Western scale of music finds itself
comfortably placed in shades of Jazz
and Funk. The overall song demonstrates conflicting sentiments in that the
wordings express a prayer in the name
of self-actualization bordering between
happy musical accents and the eternally
present sad undertone.
Lyrically,
the
song,
Abrar, speaks of inner growth and the
find a form of whimsical harmony be-
process accompanied on the journey
tween the instrumental elements by the
within beginning with Intent. As the song
Serbian House Band alongside the Dhol
progresses, he uses verses by Sufi po-
beat of the Dhol Group and the percus-
ets to symbolize the link between this
sive accents of Morocco while the Ser-
world and the next asking what it really
bian String Orchestra, in true subtlety,
is that we carry with us into the oblivion.
bring the underlying melancholy of the
Thematically, the verses speak of the
song to the foreground all the while
gift of true self-actualization lying in the
staying true to the scale presenting a
idea of self-negation. The song is one
rich mix of fusion.
that is personal to Abrar, as he feels it
demonstrates his relationship with God,
the world and his own existence.
as
written
by
Coke
Studio’s
on the platform.
Musically, the song‟s conflicting tones
“Laage
Re
Nain” also marks Ayesha Omar’s debut