Favorite music this month, on Spotify as usual.
4: "Confirmation Bias Ki Ghantian" – TPR Roundup on Hamnawa Select Feb '23Listen now (38 min) | A discussion with Ali Abbasi on the songs you should listen to in February. We talk about a song that Karachi people shouldn’t…
Ethnomusicologist Daniyal Ahmed (also know by his handle honiunhoni and his journeys to find and record artists like Ustad Noor Bakhsh): Karela occupies…
Themes of hip hop globally reference economic struggle and personal hardship. This is why the visual aesthetic of bling, of over-the-top consumption…
Lots of great music has piled up since I was last able to put out a Hamnawa Select playlist. Here’s the music I think you should listen to in February…
3: "Mummy Papa Music" – Pakistani Music in India, a Discussion with Sharanya DeepakListen now (67 min) | Sharanya Deepak is a writer & editor from New Delhi. We talk about her recent piece for 52 on listening to Pakistani pop in India…
Sharanya Deepak’s essay for 52, tells a few wonderful stories about Pakistani pop in India. It’s a lovely capture of the allure of Pakistani artists…
Over the last year, I’ve established analytics mechanisms to understand the Pakistani music industry empirically. At the end of the year, it is…
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