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sufi rock
Sufi rock or Sufi folk rock is a subgenre of rock music that combines rock with classical Islamic Sufi music traditions. It emerged in the early 1990s and became widely popular in the late 1990s in Pakistan and Turkey. The term "Sufi rock" was co ...
single
Single may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Single (music), a song release
Songs
* "Single" (Natasha Bedingfield song), 2004
* "Single" (New Kids on the Block and Ne-Yo song), 2008
* "Single" (William Wei song), 2016
* "Single", by ...
and the second from the 1996 studio album '' Inquilaab''. The song is written by lead guitarist,
Salman Ahmad
Salman Ahmad ( ur, , born 12 December 1963) is a Pakistani born-American musician, rock guitarist, physician, activist, occasional actor and professor at the City University of New York.
He earned nationwide popularity in 1998 for his uni ...
and lyricist, Sabir Zafar. Due to the song's popularity, it also featured on the band's fourth studio album '' Azadi'' released in 1997. "Saeein" is one of Junoon's most popular songs, and has been covered numerous times, most notably by
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
n singer
Harshdeep Kaur
Harshdeep Kaur (born 16 December 1986) is an Indian playback singer known for her Bollywood Hindi, Punjabi,English and Sufi songs. She is popularly known as "Sufi Ki Sultana" because of her soulful Sufi renditions. After winning titles in two ...
. The song marked Junoon's foray into what later became the
sufi rock
Sufi rock or Sufi folk rock is a subgenre of rock music that combines rock with classical Islamic Sufi music traditions. It emerged in the early 1990s and became widely popular in the late 1990s in Pakistan and Turkey. The term "Sufi rock" was co ...
sound that the band is most popularly associated with. The song uses blending rock guitars and bluesy vocals with eastern elements like the use of
tabla
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s (traditional south Asian hand drums), raga-inspired melodies, traditional Pakistani
folk music
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, and Eastern inspired poetry.
"Saeein" was named at #3 in a list of Junoon's top 10 songs and at #9 among the top
sufi rock
Sufi rock or Sufi folk rock is a subgenre of rock music that combines rock with classical Islamic Sufi music traditions. It emerged in the early 1990s and became widely popular in the late 1990s in Pakistan and Turkey. The term "Sufi rock" was co ...
songs list published by
Gibson Guitar
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on their website.Best of Both Worlds: The Top 10 Sufi Rock Songs /ref>
In addition, the short version of the song featured on the band's fourth studio album, ''Azadi'', released in 1997. The song has also featured in several other albums by the band like ''
Kashmakash Kashmakash may refer to:
* ''Kashmakash'' (album), a 1995 compilation album by Junoon
* ''Kashmakash'' (1973 film), an Indian Hindi-language film
* ''Kashmakash'', the Hindi-language dubbed version of ''Noukadubi''
See also
* ''Kash-m-kash
'' ...
Harshdeep Kaur
Harshdeep Kaur (born 16 December 1986) is an Indian playback singer known for her Bollywood Hindi, Punjabi,English and Sufi songs. She is popularly known as "Sufi Ki Sultana" because of her soulful Sufi renditions. After winning titles in two ...
(performed live at the singing competition ''Junoon - Kuch Kar Dikhaane Ka'')
* 2011: Usman Riaz (covered an instrumental version of the song on Junoon's 20th anniversary album)
Personnel
;Junoon
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Ali Azmat
Ali Azmat Butt (born 20 April 1970) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He is best known as the lead singer for the influential Sufi Rock band Junoon and for his subsequent solo career. In 2001, he became part of the first ...
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lead vocals
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,
backing vocals
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Salman Ahmad
Salman Ahmad ( ur, , born 12 December 1963) is a Pakistani born-American musician, rock guitarist, physician, activist, occasional actor and professor at the City University of New York.
He earned nationwide popularity in 1998 for his uni ...
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backing vocals
A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are use ...
,
lead guitar
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bass guitar
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backing vocals
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;Additional musicians
*Malcolm Goveas -
drums
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*Ustad Ashiq Ali Mir -
tabla
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Dholak
The ''dholak'' is a two-headed hand drum, a folk percussion instrument. The instrument is about 45 cm in length and 27 cm in breadth and is widely used in ''qawwali'', '' kirtan'', '' lavani'' and '' bhangra''. The drum has two differ ...