The Smog City Sessions

The Smog City Sessions is a collaboration between Lahore based RTF Studio and the alternative indie magazine MOSIKI. It an attempt to bring out the best of musicians based in Pakistan and expose them to the rest of the world.

Umer "Duck" Khan - Sheherzade

Natasha Humera Ejaz - Here to Stay

Modern day Lahori poet/musician Zulfi sings a song about the time he spent in Karachi. 

The Smog City Sessions is a collaboration between Lahore based RTF Studio and the alternative indie magazine MOSIKI. 
In the smoggy air of Lahore, we're trying to bring the best Pakistani musicians up to the mic to sing a song or two with no audience to witness them except for a couple of cameras, a few curious onlookers, and occasionally Misbah's dogs Crusoe and Mincy.

Zulfi - Dil Phaenk

Shorbanoor insisted he wanted to play on an electric guitar. So we borrowed Zain Ahsan's Fender Blues Junior amplifier and used like 3 extension wires to plug the amp in an outdoor setting. That's where Mr. Shorbanoor sang this song before asking us to remove any kind of profanity he may or may not have used. 

The Smog City Sessions is a collaboration between Lahore based RTF Studio and the alternative indie magazine MOSIKI. 
In the smoggy air of Lahore, we're trying to bring the best Pakistani musicians up to the mic to sing a song or two with no audience to witness them except for a couple of cameras, a few curious onlookers, and occasionally Misbah's dogs Crusoe and Mincy.

Shorbanoor - Another Hit

Asfar Hussain from the band Bayaan sang his beautiful song 'Nahin Milta' for the Smog City Sessions. 

The Smog City Sessions is a collaboration between Lahore based RTF Studio and the alternative indie magazine MOSIKI. In the smoggy air of Lahore, we're trying to bring the best Pakistani musicians up to the mic to sing a song or two with no audience to witness them except for a couple of cameras, a few curious onlookers, and occasionally Misbah's dogs Crusoe and Mincy.

Asfar Hussain - Nahin Milta

Singer songwriter Mehdi Maloof decided to take some time out of his busy schedule to sing about how he often thinks he's some sort of an inanimate object or some animal, an insect or a girl. This is a song about confusion and the trials and tribulations of being objectified.

Mehdi Maloof - Kaheen Main Khirki

In this episode of Smog City Sessions we have Karachi based trio "Towers" who took a train to Lahore to perform at the Lahore Music Meet, True Brew Records and were kind enough to spend some time with us in some random flowery field playing for us while we tried to record this beautiful flick of a moment in the grand cosmic calendar.