 Amidst the three studio records - Raaz, Roshni and Rung - Hadiqa went on a different tangent altogether and teamed up with one of the most reclusive, elusive yet brilliant musicians Pakistan has produced Aamir Zaki on a full-fledged album, Rough Cut. It was a far more restrained, mature and powerful record Zaki had done than his debut Signature. Hadiqa let go of her reservations and joined him on the musical quest even though she is a star of the masses and English remains a niche market. She knew it, even then. Whether fans digested Hadiqa in English or not is irrelevant at this point. For one thing, she is a big enough name to experiment at such a degree. And secondly she never really went away. The singles from Hadiqa Kiani were continuous. From 'Iss Bar Milo' with Aamir Zaki to 'Yeh Hum Nahin' with Shuja Haider, 'Zindagi', 'Mehr Ma' with Khiza, Hadiqa kept giving us a glimpse that she was still out there.She didn't stop making music. She went around the world, toured and in between listened to the sound stemming out of new places, trends that have shaped the new musical order, at least on the chart-thumping world charts. In between, her personal life went through a colossal change. She got married, became a mother, got divorced and for the last three years - Khawar Kiani, Hadiqa's mother, whose name always finds a place on most of her albums - was diagnosed with paralysis. That and the country changed too. We became labeled 'the most dangerous nation on earth' and that was just the tip of the iceberg. But none of those reflections come through on Aasmaan. It is a record that celebrates love, life, music, sounds and the producers - Irfan Kiani, Hadiqa's brother/manager/musician, Hadiqa herself and JKD, a British-based producer - have fun on the record. The refuse to budge with the bounciness of the record and at the same time, celebrate the genres that have blazed charts around the world. To add more punch, those trends of R 'n' B that have turned names like Rihanna into icons, have been mixed with other sounds, influences that range from local Punjabi bhangra to Arabic and Persian music. Collectively, it is a well-rounded even if slightly patchy album. Nothing dampened Hadiqa's spirit because when you listen to Aasmaan, you can't end up but smile at what Hadiqa has attempted and gotten away with: a groovy, R'n'B record that is slick in production, fun in wordplay and hip in music. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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