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Artist
Sajid & Zeeshan
12+ albums
pakistanirockelectronic rockalternativepaki
about
If you go 6-7 years before the release of "One Light Year At Snail Speed", Sajid and Zeeshan were just two people who used to live quite near each other in Peshawar, Pakistan and got introduced to each other through mutual friends. Years went by when suddenly they got together to do some recordings. As they recall, thats how their first released single "King of Self" was made and after a year, Circa 2004, was on Pakistani television channels in the form of a low budget, unpolished video that told a story of two musicians (not Sajid and Zeeshan themselves) endorsing a brand and unable to get out of their contract deal which is taking control over their artistic abilities. Since this video hit airwaves, radio was soon to follow. That was how their music project started. Sajid Ghafoor and Zeeshan Parwez, of Peshawar, are a duo who have fused together electronic music and elements of acoustica / alternative guitar styles to come up with a fresh sound. This project makes them come on one ground with Sajid on Guitars and Harmonicas and Zeeshan with synths, laptops and FX modules to perform a set of songs, written by Sajid and arranged by Zeeshan, that vary from each other in terms of feel and expression. The people accepted the new change and enjoyed the different sound produced by the two guys from Peshawar. The song became popular and it even won an award, winning the dance / electronica category all over the world and also made it the finals in the ‘song of the year’ contest (
