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Music dissolves boundaries: Pak band Raeth

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 20 2013 | 4:33 AM IST

"Music is life. Music has the power to bind people together. Our songs are appreciated equally both in Pakistan and India," says Sunny Gansham the band's guitarist.

The three-member band from Karachi was here recently for a performance that mixed western rock and eastern Sufiyana.

"Our job is to thrive on the universal denominators which are common to people belonging to all regions of the world. The things like laughter, joy, sadness, marriage, love and mirth are common to us all. Don't they?" says Wajhi Farouqui, another member of the trio.

At a chic urban village here, the musicians began their performance with hit song "Bhulaa do" following it with one song after another that "seemed to transform the listeners into a time capsule in which some mystic masseur played Sufi music," according to a member of the audience.

As the songs got groovier, the foot-tapping audience was not in a mood to allow the band even a 10 minute break.

"Once more, no break," yelled the crowd oblivious to the theatrics of the band players who unsuccessfully tried their best to convince crowd of their fatigue.

"I was a kid when I heard Bon jovi songs. The song "It's my life" inspired me greatly. Then I heard of the tussle between Bon Jovi and the music companies. It was one of the inspirations behind forming the band," says Gansham who claims to be of Indian lineage. MORE

  

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First Published: Jul 30 2012 | 2:05 PM IST

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