Mekaal Hasan Band | Raba | Sampooran | MHB Song

Mekaal Hasan Band's debut song, 'Raba' is an imaginative interpretation of Shah Hussein's Kaafi 'Raba Meray Haal Da Mehram Tu', which sees the group's first 'art video' based on a person who is not normal by regular society's standards.
The director chose to exemplify the character's unique nature/gifts by giving him a globe covered with newspapers as part of his head. This contraption literally sets him apart and the video is about how individuals who are unique are treated by 'normal' society.
The newspapers are indicative of how any person is flooded with the media telling us what is good or bad and what is acceptable or unacceptable. The character goes through four or five different actions wherein he attempts to adapt to normal everyday experiences,yet at each attempt he is left bewildered and hopelessly out of place. His ultimate resolution is to take the newspapers, make paper planes of them and throw them away,because to him the messages they are sending are irrelevant, since any individual has to find the truth of their existence for themselves and not rely on other sources to tell them well them what they are or not and what they should be or not.

Lyrics

My God, you are my everything, you are everything
Without you, I am but nothing.
My God, you are the keeper of what’s in my heart, you live in my heart,
In my soul, in my very being – you are everywhere,
The keeper of what’s in my heart.
My very being, my reason to be is because of you – only you,
The keeper of what’s in my heart.
Says Hussain who serves the Lord,
You are everything that I am or can be –
The keeper of what’s in my heart.

Personnel

Guitars: Mekaal Hasan
Flute: Muhammad Ahsan Papu
Keyboards: Javed Akhtar
Vocals: Javed Bashir
Bass: Mike Mondesir
Drums: John Louis Pinto aka 'Gumby'

Released on 7th January, 2004.

Album mixed and mastered by Mekaal Hasan at Digital Fidelity Studios, Lahore Pakistan.

Album Produced by Mekaal Hasan for Dfs Records

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Mekaal Hasan Band, sometimes shortened to MHB, is an international sufi rock band formed in Lahore, Pakistan in 2000 by composer, singer-songwriter and guitarist Mekaal Hasan.

The band members have roots in different genres, including pop, rock music, soul music, and black rock, the combination of each member has created a sound which has earned them fans from a variety of quarters.


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