Adding to that Muneeb says, “The band was formally formed in January and we jammed to a couple of songs we wrote together and it all worked quite well. We experienced it through poets like Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Ghalib.“The balance between the understanding of where we’ve come from, our roots, the music and poetry we’ve grown up listening to, how the contemporary soundscapes affected us, and art and literature we encountered defines the reason why we named our band Meezan.
We met at the right time in the right place and ended up forming Meezan.”end-ofTags: muneeb khan, meezan, kashmiri folk. band Meezan is giving Kashmiri & Urdu poetry a new musical
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Somewhere, Urdu merged with our culture creating a unique bond. It is not restricted just to the sound that is produced but the very journey that leads us to creating that sound.Meezan is the object that balances, and our music constantly tries to seek that art of balancing these vast narratives,” they unanimously believe. Zeeshan Nabi adds to the electronics and keys along with vocals. It’s basically I guess due to the demographical placement of the land where we come from and how it has been a significant contributor to the cultural exchange. Be it studying Urdu in school or singing Kashmiri songs, somewhere in between, it all began,” he says. The journey creating our music using bilingual poetry gives us more space to express. We have grown up in a cultural space where literature in Kashmir has inspired us with poets like Rasul Mir, Shams Faqir, Lal Ded.
