Mizraab – Live & Rare

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Mizraab - Live & Rare
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Live album by Mizraab
Released January 1, 2010
Recorded August 11, 2007 at MTV Studios in Karachi, Pakistan
Genre Progressive rock, Progressive metal, Heavy metal
Length39:22
Label Independent
Producer Faraz Anwar
Mizraab chronology
Live at FM 101
(2009) Live at FM 1012009
Mizraab - Live & Rare
(2010)
Unplugged
(2012) Unplugged2012

Mizraab – Live & Rare is the second live album and overall the fourth album by the Pakistani progressive rock band, Mizraab, released in January 2010. It is exclusively a digital download live album, and has not been released on a physical medium. The album included recordings from the band's live performances on MTV Pakistan.

Progressive rock is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s. Initially termed "progressive pop", the style was an outgrowth of psychedelic bands who abandoned standard pop traditions in favour of instrumentation and compositional techniques more frequently associated with jazz, folk, or classical music. Additional elements contributed to its "progressive" label: lyrics were more poetic, technology was harnessed for new sounds, music approached the condition of "art", and the studio, rather than the stage, became the focus of musical activity, which often involved creating music for listening, not dancing.

Mizraab Pakistani band

Mizraab is a progressive rock and metal band from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, formed in 1997. Founded by vocalist, lead guitarist and songwriter, Faraz Anwar, the band's initial line-up was with Faraz Anwar on vocals, Khalid Khan on bass and Akhtar Qayyum on percussions, since then there had been many changes in the line-up the only consistent member being Faraz himself. The band have been influential on many contemporary musical artists, and have gained a large cult following despite garnering little radio or music video airplay.

Contents

Track listing

All music written, composed & arranged by Mizraab.

Mizraab - Live & Rare
No.TitleLength
1."Meri Terhan"9:05
2."Insaan"7:06
3."Aag"7:08
4."Izhar"3:32
5."Ujalon Main"4:27
6."Panchi"8:02
Total length:39:22

Personnel

All information is taken from the website.

Mizraab

Faraz Anwar is a Pakistani guitarist, known for his solo instrumental work and his band Mizraab. He has been called "Pakistan's master of progressive rock."

Production
Karachi Metropolis in Sindh, Pakistan

Karachi is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh. It is the most populous city in Pakistan, and sixth-most-populous city proper in the world. Ranked as a beta world city, the city is Pakistan's premier industrial and financial centre and is considered as the cultural, economic, philanthropic, educational, and political hub of the country. Karachi is also Pakistan's most cosmopolitan city. Situated on the Arabian Sea, Karachi serves as a transport hub, and is home to Pakistan's two largest seaports, the Port of Karachi and Port Bin Qasim, as well as the Pakistan's busiest airport, Jinnah International Airport.

Pakistan federal parliamentary constitutional republic in South Asia

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the world’s sixth-most populous country with a population exceeding 212,742,631 people. In area, it is the 33rd-largest country, spanning 881,913 square kilometres. Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China in the far northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.

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