Regularly scheduled collaborative program with Ali Abbasi of TPR Pod. We discuss our Hamnawa Select curation for April 2024. We talk about:

* Our favorite topic: aleemrk

* Faris

* Kaavish

* Coke Studio

This episode is cross-posted as TPR #210, also on YouTube.

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Abdul Hannan is singer of hits such as Bikhra and Iraaday, and his releases in 2023 made him one of the most heard Pakistani artists of the year. After a meteoric rise, Abdul Hannan gives an exclusive interview to Hamnawa, discussing his conquering of the Pakistani music charts, his musical process, and the economics of the Pakistani music industry.

This interview accompanies a profile of Hannan I wrote, which was recently published. We recorded late in 2023, and a few of the projects Hannan teases in the interview are now out. This is perhaps the most expansive description I’ve heard of Hannan’s process, motivation and career.

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Regularly scheduled collaborative program with Ali Abbasi of TPR Pod. We discuss our Hamnawa Select curation for March 2024. We talk about:

* Humor in Pakistani music

* Jogi by Maanu, and the use of auto-tune

* Pameer Yousafzai’s Pashto rap from Swat

* Nirmala Maghani’s Koyal

* More aleemrk talk

This episode is cross-posted as TPR #209, also on YouTube.

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Regularly scheduled collaborative program with Ali Abbasi of TPR Pod. We discuss our Hamnawa Select curation for February 2024. We talk about:

* UK Punjabi music

* Mooroo & Mekaal Hasan

* Babar Mangi

* Faisal Kapadia

* Eva B

This episode is cross-posted as TPR #207, also on YouTube.

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Regularly scheduled collaborative program with Ali Abbasi of TPR Pod. We discuss our Hamnawa Select curation for January 2024. We talk about:

* Hamnawa’s best of 2023 picks

* Enlightening friends unfortunate enough to be ignorant of new Pakistani music

* Mashoor by Sheherazaad

* Aur’s collab with Zayn

* Wehshi by Salor, Ahsan, Arhum Sameed

* Arif Lohar’s awesome new song

This episode is cross-posted as TPR #206, also on YouTube.

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Regularly scheduled collaborative program with Ali Abbasi of TPR Pod. We discuss our Hamnawa Select curation for December 2023. We talk about:

* Big trends in Pakistani music for 2023

* Selections from the playlist, including Awad, Farasat Anees, Azaan Sami Khan, and Adnan Dhool

* Various threads about how we are getting old

This episode is cross-posted as TPR #205, also on YouTube.

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Regularly scheduled collaborative program with Ali Abbasi of TPR Pod. We discuss our Hamnawa Select curation for November 2023. We talk about:

* My bad sleep cycle

* Natasha Noorani’s album RONAQ

* More songs from Jani’s Lostalgia

* Umair, Ali Pirzada, Faisal Kapadia

* My World Cup sadness (lots of my problems on this episode)

This episode is cross-posted as TPR #204, also on YouTube.

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We released our regular curation of notable new Pakistani Music a couple of days ago. We return with a discussion between Hamnawa & Ali Abbasi of TPR Pod about the contents of this playlist. We talk about:

* albums, too many albums!

* Talal Qureshi’s album Turbo

* Jani’s album Lostalgia

* Zain Zohaib and their contribution to Qawwali

* a funky new song by Javed Bashir

I also rant.

This episode is cross posted as TPR Pod #203, and is also available on YouTube.

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Our regular discussion episode around our latest Hamnawa Select curation, with Ali Abbasi of the TPR Pod. We discuss Ali Sethi, Amna Riaz, business models of releasing music in Pakistan, and perceptions of the Pakistani music market compared to global trends. Random sidebars, as usual, are aplenty.

This episode is also published as TPR Pod #201.

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Our regular discussion with Ali Abbasi of TPR Pod around the Hamnawa Select playlist. For our August playlist, we discuss Shamoon Ismail’s Velo song, more Pashto rap, new indie music from Doodh Patti, Kaavish & Roxen.

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