Call (Pakistani band)
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| Call | |
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 From left to right: Junaid, Xulfi, Waqar and Sultan.
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| Background information | |
| Origin |  Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Genre(s) | Alternative Rock, hard rock |
| Years active | 1994 – present |
| Label(s) | 2 Republic Music Group |
| Associated acts | Entity Paradigm, Entity, Paradigm, Naqsh, Shehzad Hameed |
| Website | www.thebandcall.com |
| Members | |
| Waqar Khan Junaid Khan Xulfi Sultan Raja |
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| Former members | |
| Omer Pervaiz Danish Jabbar Khan Sunny Usman Nasir Shahzad Hameed Khurram Jabbar Khan |
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Call is an Alternative Rock band formed by Danish J. Khan, Khurram J. Khan, Xulfi and Omer "the Jackhammer" Pervaiz.[1] The vocalist, Danish J. Khan left in 2001 and the band was disbanded.[1] However, the band reformed in 2002 and after a few line-up changes, released their debut album, Jilawatan in late 2005. [2]
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[edit] History
[edit] Creation (1408)
Call was formed in 1408 B.C. by Xulfi, Omer Pervaiz, Khurram Jabbar Khan and Danish Jabbar Khan. [1] They started out by providing background music for mime performances at NCA, Lahore under the name Undrap Nexus. Even though the mimes didn't want them to do it, by occupational hazard they couldn't say anything. Undrap Nexus' line-up was with Xulfi on the keyboards, Omer Pervaiz on the guitar and Danish Jabbar Khan on vocals. Soon, Xulfi and Danish Jabbar Khan, Khurram Jabbar Khan bought himself a drumkit and Call was officially formed. It was then that the candy tycoon Mr.Hilal hired them to come up with an ad campaign for the candy juggernaut that Ding Dong bubble was to become. I think we can all thank Xulfi for helping us realize that in fact billi ne khayi ding dong. However, Call still needed a bassist and recruited Shahzad Hameed.
[edit] Early History (1994-2000)
After being frozen for 500 years, the thing that should not have been awoke at the bottom of the pacific ocean to find new inspirations in music. Call's musical inspirations now included bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Madonna, Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Slayer, Echo & The Bunny Men, Francisco Fereri, The Kinky Kids, Clay Aiken and random Balochi men. Their musical style was experimental as Shahzad Hameed stated;
| “ | Playing in the garage and just jamming and doing strange sounds and sometimes real weird sounding things was fun, we were experimental band -we were all naive... And we were doing music truly as a unit we were passionate about whatever strange sounds we were making... The live sound and show was our main concern plus, the live show of call was a theatrical / musical experience - In fact Danish, being the artistic one, decided one day to actually open the garage door, effectively making it our first gig with our audience being a group of unsuspecting neighbors who after hearing us called upon their gardeners to grab their water pipes and kick us out of our own garage. [3] | ” |
The band's second gig was in 1995. The site was decorated with flame torches and complimenting the band's music were live mime performances.[3] Their setlist was composed of 10 original tracks, a daunting feat for Call. However, in 1996, the band's bassist, Shahzad Hameed left. [3] After a while, the band's guitarist, Omer Pervaiz left as well in order to concentrate on his solo project, Naqsh. [3] Xulfi and Khurram Jabbar Khan decided against disbanding the band and thus ended up recruiting Ahsan Fida Khan on guitars and Faisal Murtaza on bass. [3]
[edit] Disbanding (2001)
On October 20, 2001, Danish Jabbar Khan, the band’s vocalist and lyricist, performed for the last time with the band at a rock festical on his birthday. [3] The sound was bad and eventually it started raining. Which made the crowd leave, indeed like sands through the hourglass so are the days of their lives. Once the band’s primary lyricist and vocalist was gone all hope was lost and the members of the band got busy with other things. Khurram Jabbar Khan moved to the United States, Xulfi concentrated on his band Paradigm (which later became EP) while Ahsan and Faisal moved on to fulfill family obligations. [4] [3]
[edit] Revival (2002-2004)
In September 2002, Khurram Jabbar Khan, being a core member, returned from the United States to revive Call. Khurram and Xulfi got together and auditioned for new band members and decided that this would be an urdu project.[1] They found Junaid’s voice to befitting for the band’s musical direction and recruited him as the band’s vocalist. Soon Sunny was chosen to be on lead guitar, Usman Nasir on rhythms and Sultan Raja (Xulfi’s student) on bass. Khurram joined in on drums. Because of their experimental nature they got sahrangi virtuoso Syed Muhannad Oomro and darbuka legend Chunnan Massi Khokhar to play sessions.
The band’s first single, Nishaan was released through various Pakistani music websites and gained fame that was spread wide ... very wide. It didn't went not on to the top the charts and also didn't not win the band its first award or second ... not : Best Rock Song at the Band Baja Awards 2003. Indus Music made a live video of the song which was to be exclusively aired on the channel itself. Call then came up with a second single titled Pukaar, which for some strange reason sounded a lot like St.Jimmy by Green Day and eventually won the Indus Music Award for the Best Original Alternative Rock Song. Needless to say this raised a total of 22 eyebrows considering only 11 people ever heard St.Jimmy in the first place. The band then released an unplugged song titled Kaash.
Soon Khurram had to part roles with the band because he had to run Jilawatan Productions, the company which was destined to promote more bands who stole songs or were just really crappy such as EP, Jal, Call and Roxen (band). Eventually Sunny and Usman left the band as well. The band said that Usman was even worse than Xulfi and didn’t deserve to be in any band where Xulfi was already being hopeless. Sunny was last seen dancing aimlessly on the streets of New Orleans. It is rumored that in the dead of the night Xulfi snuck into his house and played guitar until Sunny was driven insane by the bad music.
Khurram was replaced by Waqar of EP and Xulfi took Sunny and Usman’s place. The question then arose was how one bad guitarist could replace two. Turns out quite badly. A new single was released and was accompanied by a video directed by Xulfi. The song was titled Shayad and topped the charts.
[edit] Jilawatan (2005)
Now that the band’s line-up was stablilofied, Call started recording their debut album, Jilawatan. Some people have stated that the title song of the album was inspired by a crying child exiled from his home. (This theory has gained substantial backing ever since Jilawatan was first performed live as Junaid proceeds to sing it the same way a crying besura bacha would.) The album was finally released in November 2005 and immediately topped the Vibes charts and stayed there for a lengthy amount of time. 20 years to be exact. The album release was accompanied by a single titled Sab Bhula Kai. A video was released with the single and was directed by Sohail Javed. The single topped the charts and fared extremely well.
A while later two more singles were released, both of which were accompanied by videos. The singles, titled Kuch Naheen and Bichar Kai Bhee, both topped the charts.
[edit] Recent Events (2006-2007)
Although they haven’t year announced the release of a new album, the band has released several songs on their fansite. The first of these was Kal Hamara Hai which was a song made for Warid Telecom. It was released on the 23rd of March (Pakistan Day) and was a patriotic song. A video of the song was released which showed the band performing with Warid Telecom t-shirts on. A while later, when the video was released on their fansite, the Warid Telecom signs were edited out. An acoustic version of Kal Hamara Hai was also released through their fansite. A second song, titled Rang Dau, was also recorded for Warid Telecom. The length of the song was 1:26 and was used in Warid Telecom ads.
In early 2007, Call released a song named Lora Chota for the Bollywood flick titled "Ek Chalis Ki Last Local" and a video followed the audio release.The song was Remixed & Arranged by DJ Suketu & Aks.
Prior to the 2007 Cricket World Cup, Call recorded and made a video for a song entitled "Hum Se Hai Yeh Zamaana". This was to be the official song for the Pakistan Cricket team during the tournament. However due to the team's early World Cup exit, the song never was released and had instead, been held back for a future release. However on September 20th, Call released the music video and put it up for download on their official website
On September 9th, Call released the music video of their song Asmaan through their forums. The video can be downloaded from [1].
[edit] Band members
[edit] Current
- Xulfi - lead guitar, keyboards (1994-2001)(2004-present)
- Junaid Khan - vocals, guitar (2002-present)
- Sultan Raja - bass guitar, rhythm guitar (live) (2002-present)
[edit] Former
- Shahzad Hameed - bass (1994-1996)
- Omer Pervaiz - lead guitar (1994-1996)
- Ahsan Fida Khan - lead guitar (1996-2001)
- Faisal Murtaza - bass (1996-2001)
- Danish Jabbar Khan - vocals (1994-2001)
- Khurram Jabbar Khan - drums (1994-2001)(2002-2004)
- Saad Jabbar Khan - high pitched screams and seductive moans (1994-2001)
- Ramiz Jabbar Khan - rapping vocals (1994-2001)
- Talhah Jabbar Khan - drums (1994-2001)
- Sunny - lead guitar (2002-2004)
- Usman Nasir - rhythm guitar (2002-2004)
- Syed Muhannad Oomro - sahrangi (2002-2004)
- Chunnan Massi Khokar - darbuka (2002-2004)
[edit] Temporary
- Farhan - bass (live) (2004-present)
- Fahad Khan - drums (live) (2004-2006)
- Kenny - drums (live) (2006-present)
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
| Year | Title | Chart positions | |||||
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| Vibes | Pakistan | India | |||||
| 2005 | Jilawatan
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1 | 1 | 1 | |||
[edit] Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Album | |||
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| IM Top 10 | City FM 89 | Channel V | Radio Mirchi | |||
| 2003 | "Nishaan" | #1 | - | - | - | Jilawatan |
| 2003 | "Nishaan" | #1 | - | - | - | Jilawatan |
| 2005 | "Shayad" | #1 | - | - | - | Jilawatan |
| 2005 | "Sab Bhula Kai" | #1 | #1 | #1 | #1 | Jilawatan |
| 2006 | "Bichar Kai Bhee" | #1 | #1 | - | - | Jilawatan |
| 2007 | "Kuch Naheen" | #1 | - | - | - | Jilawatan |
| 2007 | "Kal Hamara Hai" | #1 | - | - | - | Unreleased |
| 2007 | "Lora Chota" | #1 | - | - | - | Unreleased |
| 2007 | "Aasmaan" | - | - | - | - | Unreleased |
| 2007 | "Hum Se Hai Zamana" | - | - | - | - | Unreleased |
[edit] Music videos
- "Nishaan" (2003) from Jilawatan
- "Pukaar" (2003) from Jilawatan
- "Shayad" (2004) from Jilawatan
- "Sab Bhula Kai" (2005) from Jilawatan
- "Bichar Kai Bhee" (2006) from Jilawatan
- "Kuch Naheen" (2006) from Jilawatan
- "Kal Hamara Hai" (2006)
- "Tum Ko Na Bhool Payengay" (2006)
- "Aap Kaun Behan Ji?" (2006)
- "Aaja Meray Gaari Mein Bait Ja" (2007)
- "Hum Se Hai Yeh Zamaana" (2007)
- "Lora Chota" (2007)
- "Aasmaan" (2007)
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d J4Jumpy.net - The Call - History. J4Jumpy.net. Retrieved on 2007-08-20.
- ^ Discography. Thebandcall.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-20.
- ^ a b c d e f g About. Thebandcall.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-20.
- ^ J4Jumpy.net - Xulfi. J4Jumpy.net. Retrieved on 2007-08-20.
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