Alvida Live at Satellite Recording Studios

Featuring:
Umair Dar - Guitar
Talha Alvie - Guitar

With Special Guests:
Shahram Mazhari - Santoor
John Nipe - Keyboards

Mixed and Mastered by Satellite Recording Studios

Check out the accompanying Video at:
https://vimeo.com/109923941

Alvida (Live at Satellite Recording Studios)

'When you decide where you stand, the colour will return to your life'

Janissaries 
Dar/Alvie/Siddiq/Shah 

I walk into the setting sun 
My head is held high 
I don't know where I've come but 
I'm marching forward 
Into the void 

I pull my boot straps tight 
My pack is set 
I am the jannisary of today 

I'm off to war but 
You're in my way 

And I will come back 
But would you stay? 

So far away... 
Believe me when I say... 

See a field of endless green 
I can't explain the 
Space beyond this hate and ignorance 
Are these illusions? 
What have I done? 

Space between my fear and love 
My soul is aching 
Have to find my way back up to you 

My disillusion 
Has nearly killed me 

My retribution 
Nearly... 

Jan nissar hai tujh pe jannisaarie 
Ke kal hum sar utha ke chalain 
Jan nissar hai tujh pe jannisaarie 
Apne khuda ki janib 
Koi to jawab le ke chalain 

Wasn't meant to be this way 
Deluding myself another day 

A walked a path that was set for me 
But, didn't realise that my soul is free 

I must confess now that it's all over 
I'm just left with doubt. 
You don't believe me? 
Well, can't you see my mind is almost as foggy as the clouds? 
That hover over, 
to cast a shadow right across the mountains and the rivers of my land. 

And then she tells me 
Just who I am x2 

The light within is already gone 
I don't feel It's pull any more 
How much further 
do you want me to go? 

And now I see the sky open up right in front of me 
The rain falls down and... 
Washes away all of the pain that I feel 
I hear your voice and... 
It's calling me as I run forward through the fields 
I was a janissary 
But having seen the light I just know that I am free 
I am free

Janissaries

Cup of coffee

Vocals - Sameen Qasim
Guitar/Ukulele/Synth/Kazoo/Shaker - Gentle Robot
Composed/Arranged/Produced by Gentle Robot
Mixed and Mastered by Gentle Robot

Lyrics:

Trying hard to calm my nerves,
Cascading thoughts fill every crevice,
Drown in the shallow waters, 
No warning signs no peace of mind,

Open wide and swallow my world,
You can keep it all I don't need my soul,
I'm looking for a way to keep things the same, 
Never want it to change,

I don't know what I suppose is in your head, 
Our juxtaposed views and your deliberate clues of regret,

Lost inside my head I'll never take it easy on myself,
I feel so weak

Feel Ft. Sameen Qasim

The second single from our second album, The Desert Road. 
Featuring Bruce Soord (The Pineapple Thief, Wisdom of Crowds) and Sohail Ajaz on guest vocals.

Co-produced and mixed by Bruce Soord
Mastered by Mats 'Limpan' Lindfors (1957-2017)

Produced by The D/A Method
Umair Dar
Talha Alvie
Usama Siddiq
Istvan Csabai
Daniel Arthur Panjwaneey 

Dream Sequence
(Alvie/Siddiq)

There’s so many things I can’t deliver
Even if I try I just need to hide…
Behind closed doors, I might forgive her
But each time I try she just hurts my pride

“Show it off” you told me, “never”
But even when I want, I have nothing to flaunt

Look what it’s done to me (I can’t believe it)
A blackened reality (I can’t believe it)
It’s right in front of me (I can’t believe it)
The freak everyone can see

As the sun comes up I start to shiver
Just as they foretold, is how things unfold
When I was young I was so clever
But I sure as hell was not... a belated thought

I’m a liar, I’m a sinner
I am any one of them
Face me at my worst how can you
Say you are my fucking friend

Look what it’s done to me (I can’t believe it)
A blackened reality (I can’t believe it)
It’s right in front of me (I can’t believe it)
The freak everyone can see

I feel it, it’s happening again
This feedback in my head
(I’m barely moving, I am consumed)
I feel it, it’s happening again
This feedback in my head
(I’m barely breathing, I’m so confused)
I feel it, it’s happening again
This feedback in my head

The Desert Road

Dream Sequence

Ballad for an Ethereal Moon

Lyrics: 
I’m running away, to quite my brain
I’ve seen the cracks, cracking at the seams
It’s not real it’s not a fact, it just couldn’t be
The notes wrong and the beat sounds kinda off

I can feel your pain
I can free your soul
I can talk for hours
And I listen too

Thunder sounds my raft goes upside down
Waves keep crashing, crashing down on me
Pray gods is this how you want my end?
But clouds give way and I see the sun shine warm and bright

I've been living in a bubble
I've always been running away
My thoughts my words had no meaning in this place
So I tried to see things differently 
But that made me feel all alone
So in my loneliness I tried to find a home

Don't try to go straight
Life is but a wave
You're at the top now and now you're down you'resodeepinshityouhaveapermananentfrown

Credits: 
Vocals: Altamash Sever
Guitars: Luke Azariah and Misbah Uddin
Drums:  Daud Ramay
Keys: Luke Azariah and Misbah Uddin
Saxophone: Jibraan Saeed

Produced by Misbah Uddin at Aeroplane Records
Drums tracked at True Brew Records
Drums treated by Amr Kashmiri and Misbah Uddin

A very special thanks to: 
Zain Ahsan for letting us borrow his Fender blues junior amp. 
Danish Khwaja for just being there and for that suggestion for that part in Noni. 
Waleed Ahmed for being a source of inspiration and for that advice about using gated reverb on Ebb. 
Amr Kashmiri for being so damn hospitable and letting us use his expensive analog compressor and his Moog sub 37 and for also creating that sound of sea waves. 
Tabish Habib for directing the music video for Noni. 
Jamal Rahman for letting us use True Brew Records to track drums for all the songs we've made after 'Lead the Way'.
Sameen Qasim for her beautiful voice that we used for some of our backing vocal tracks.
Muhammad Awais for designing our logo and letting us use his neon light Keeray Makoray logo for our music video.
Haris Hidayatullah for being such an awesome human being and digitalizing, editing and animating our album artwork.

Running

Lyrics:
Sitting home all alone
You get high you’re feeling stoned
So many feeling too many words inside
And those tears that never reached your eye

In your mind you travel time
In your soul there is a fire
Slowly burning self sustaining
It dies out then but then it sparks up again

Give yourself to the world
Let the scrolls of your thoughts unfurl
Your soul searches and lingers
Then channels its music through your fingers
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Credits: 

Vocals: Misbah Uddin and Altamash Sever
Guitars: Luke Azariah and Misbah Uddin
Drums: Yusuf Ramay
Keys: Luke Azariah and Misbah Uddin
Lyrics: Misbah Uddin

Produced by Misbah Uddin at Aeroplane Records
Drums tracked at True Brew Records

A very special thanks to: 
Zain Ahsan for letting us borrow his Fender blues junior amp. 
Danish Khwaja for just being there and for that suggestion for that part in Noni. 
Waleed Ahmed for being a source of inspiration and for that advice about using gated reverb on Ebb. 
Amr Kashmiri for being so damn hospitable and letting us use his expensive analog compressor and his Moog sub 37 and for also creating that sound of sea waves. 
Tabish Habib for directing the music video for Noni. 
Jamal Rahman for letting us use True Brew Records to track drums for all the songs we've made after 'Lead the Way'.
Sameen Qasim for her beautiful voice that we used for some of our backing vocal tracks.
Muhammad Awais for designing our logo and letting us use his neon light Keeray Makoray logo for our music video.
Haris Hidayatullah for being such an awesome human being and digitalizing, editing and animating our album artwork.

Noni

Hum Tum Yeh Woh performed on Season 2 of Lussun TV Sessions

Hum Tum Yeh Who - ہم تم یہ وہ (Lussun TV Sessions)

One of our earliest performances of Angels & Djinn live at The Premises in London in April of 2015. For this session, we had Adil Azim on bass and Raheel Manzar Paul filling in on drums for Istvan.

(Dar/Alvie)
Hey, I heard you call my name
I heard you went insane
Life is not a game
Wish you were here to stay
In your messed up way
I heard you call my name

Won’t you take a ride?
Won’t you kill some time?
Can you find a way to me?

I don’t have a lot of time
The whole world is mine
Give me a sign
Let me know you’re mine
Maybe just a smile
Let me in a while

Won’t you take a ride?
Won’t you kill some time?
Can you find a way, to me?
Won’t you take a ride?
Won’t you kill some time?
Can you find a way to me?

The D/A Method are:
Usama Siddiq: Vocals, guitar
Umair Dar: Guitar, backing vocals, production
Talha Alvie: Guitar, keys, backing vocals, production
Istvan Csabai: Drums, video
Daniel Arthur Panjwaneey: Bass, engineering

Angels & Djinn (Live at The Premises)

Angels & Djinn (Live At The Premises)

Doosray logo kay baaray mein baat karna fazool hai yaaro,
Achay log woh hain jo doosro mein achayee dekh paye na,
Meinay bhi in sab say eik sabak seekh liya hai yaaro,
Chughal khori aur sayasat say tujh ko kya millay ga?

In logo say na ho khwar, in logo ko kuch pata nahi. 

Doosray Log -- دوسرے لوگ

The D/A Method was a progressive rock band from Pakistan. Over their ten year career, the band released three full-length albums 'The Great Disillusion' (2015), 'The Desert Road' (2017), and 'Sanctuary' (2022) along with several EPs and singles.