Coke Studio All Pashto Songs

About Coke Studio All Pashto Songs

Coke Studio is a Pakistani television series featuring live music performances. The program focuses on a fusion of the diverse musical influences in Pakistan, including eastern classical, folk, and contemporary popular music. Following is the list of its episodes released till the date along with the songs and singers in correspondence with the seasons and its respective episodes.

Season 1 (2008)
Artists featuring in the show included, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Ali Azmat, Ali Zafar, Ustaad H. B Gullo, Saieen Tufail Ahmed, Strings, Sajid & Zeeshan, Saba & Selina and Mauj. The show also featured a house band which had some of the high-profile musicians in the country including, Omran Shafique on guitars, Kamran Zafar on bass guitars, Zeeshan Parwez on keyboards and turntables, Louis 'Gumby' Pinto on drums. Other members of the house band included, Saba Shabbir, Athar Sani and Selina Rashid on backing vocals along with Babar Khanna, Zulfiq 'Shazee' Ahmed Khan and The Abdul Latif Band on percussions.

Season 2 (2009)
This series also featured some well known guest musicians which included, sitar player Rakae Jamil, flutist Baqir Abbas, sarangi player Gul Mohammad, Gupreet Channa on tablas and Sadiq Sameer playing the rubab. Also, the second season featured Ali Zafar and Strings performing for the second time at Coke Studio as they were also part of the first season.

Season 3 (2010)
The third season also saw a change in the house band as Natasha De Souza was replaced by Sanam Saeed and Zoe Viccaji who joined Saba Shabbir on backing vocals. Sikander Mufti joined the crew on percussions with Babar Khanna and Zulfiq 'Shazee' Ahmed Khan. Asad Ahmed and Omran Shafique returned as guitarists along with Kamran Zafar on bass. Jaffar Ali Zaidi and Javed Iqbal stayed on keyboards and violin respectively whereas Gumby remained as the drummer of the show.This series also featured some well-known guest musicians which included, flutist Baqir Abbas, Sagar Veena player Noor Zehra and Sadiq Sameer playing the rubab. Also, the third season featured a return of Noori, Zeb and Haniya and Arieb Azhar, who were also part of second season of the show. The third season featured five episodes which are titled as Reason, Will, Conception, Form and Realisation, respectively.

Pashto Songs and Pashto Music are the product of the cultural, traditional, and social influences of the Pashtun people. The native land of the Pashtun is surrounded by uncompromisingly inhospitable terrain. The region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan and Southern Afghanistan is both scenically beautiful and tough.Rich in content, Pashto Songs and Pashto Music is reflective of the Pashtun people history and ideals. Classical Pashto Songs and Pashto Music are delivered with multiple instruments resembling that of a small orchestra. The classical music in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has its origin in the historical movements that affected every part of the subcontinent. Being a volatile region which suffered the brunt of every invasion, no alien music could take roots here. Hence there is not the slightest trace of classical music before the end of the eighteenth century. It was at the beginning of the nineteenth century that some of the classical vocalists, who were uprooted from their homes, settled here and founded the classical music in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Among them, Baba Sindhi was the first vocalist to come here from Kapoorthala. He was a grandmaster and it was his school from where classical music flourished and reached out to the other parts of the NWFP. Shadola, Bulbula, Bhangra, Khattak and Uttan are popular dances which had their origin in the folk songs. Khattak is the most popular and requires a lot of practice to perfect the skill. Sarinda and Rabab are the two most popular stringed instruments which are played solo as well as in accompaniment with the vocalists. Shehnai and drum are also part of the Pashto Music composition.