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Finished Tracks
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Barsaat
vox & acoustic1: Adil Sherwani, bvox: Arif Husain, bvox & acoustic2: Ajit Ninan
Release Me (live)
drums: NIkhil Sohni, vox & acoustic1: Adil Sherwani, acoustic2: Arif Husain, electric: Ajit Ninan
Van Diemen's Land
vox & bvox: Arif Husain, vox, bvox, & acoustic: Adil Sherwani
Be Like That (live)
vox & acoustic: Arif Husain
Brilliant Disguise (live)
bvox & acoustic1: Asghar Husain, vox & acoustic2: Arif Husain
Last Dance
vox, bvox, & acoustic: Shiraz Malik, harmonica: Arif Husain
To Be With You
Shiraz is playing every instrument: lead and choral vocals, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drum machine
Truly Some good pop fun. I took some liberties with the arrangement. Shiraz is playing on all tracks, and presumably sang this with a bad cold because I had to remove a *lot* of sniffles. :)
Push (acoustic) This is a demonstration of what you can do with just acoustic guitar and voice. Shiraz is singing and playing guitar. Obviously a lot of talent here. Shiraz told me he recorded the tracks to this after he "got bored." :)
Running To Stand Still Arif is playing guitar and singing. Once again, I only added a little polish.
Mera Pyar This is an old, multi-track, live recording I made with Kaif at a private show. Adil Sherwani is singing lead (Arif is singing backup vocals on some of the choruses--this was added after the original performance).
Mera Pyar (w/Naveen) This is an old, multi-track, live recording to which I added strings, Prashant redid the guitar intro, and I touched up in the studio. Naveen had stopped by when Kaif was recording, and we performed this one without rehearsal.
Angel (phone) The very first over-the-phone vocal experiment. For convenience, I reused the accompaniment I had created below (with minor tweaks for the new spectral distribution). Farah is singing.
Angel

The vocal performance here was part of one of the first multi-track songs I'd ever recorded. Naveen is singing, I'm playing piano.


Unfinished Tracks
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Prashant's Song Prashant is playing all the instruments. This was composed spontaneously.
Time After Time  
Comfort That Hurts  
With or Without You vox: Arif; vox & acoustic1: Shiraz; acoustic2: Adil H.
Let it Be Shiraz performed and recorded the separate tracks in Florida. Vocals, backup vocals, instruments, drums, etc., they're all Shiraz. Arif contributed guest vocals. And I put it together and added some polish so you can see more clearly what's really there. This is what 8 tracks of vocals sounds like.
Bed of Roses (sample) Shiraz is singing; I'm playing piano

Experiments
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Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You (live snippet) This is a clip of a live recording we made at 2am at UGP2. Shiraz didn't have a proper mic infront of him.
6th Ave. Heartache Asghar is playing guitar and singing. We recorded this in 10 minutes on his way out the door.
Nowhere An original by Shiraz. This needs to be rerecorded because everything is clipping.
Still of the Night
recorded after the 8/11 music party: vocals only - Shiraz Malik (lead vocals), Farah Kidwai (tenor harmony), Adil Sherwani (soprano harmony),:) Asghar Husain (baritone harmony), Adil Husain (bass vocals)
Still of the Night (raw track: w/talking, etc.)
this is the raw track - otherwise, same as above except: Asghar Husain (baritone harmony + Cartman imitation) :)