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The tenth season is an upcoming season of of the Pakistani music television series Coke Studio, which is scheduled to release in August 2017 on the occasion of Pakistan's independence day.[1] Strings and The Coca-Cola Company will emcee the show as executive producers, while the show will return with the previous year's format of music directors leading and producing their own songs under Strings' supervision, despite the decision of not adopting this format for next year.[2][3]

Season line-up chart

The show is expected to start with a collaborative dramatic rendition of "Qaumi Taranah" with the Minar-e-Pakistan as its backdrop, by following featured artistes:

Music directors line-up

Strings, Shuja Haider,[5] Shani Arshad, and Jaffer Zaidi will return to the show; while Ali Hamza, Sajjad Ali and Mekaal Hasan Band joined the show for the first time as music directors. Sahir Ali Bagga and Salman Ahmad will make their Coke Studio debut as directors and solo artistes. Each will be producing individual performances too.[1][6] The Express Tribune reported that each producer will also feature at least one tribute song; from which following are expected:[1][7]

Production

Format

In an early report of The Express Tribune that stated "the biggest challenge for the show is to bridge the gap between the indie scene and the mainstream musicians,"[8] however, the multiple-producers format was a huge hit last year and this made the show to be returned with the same format, despite Strings claim that show will follow the original format.[9]

Artist debuts

Many of the season 10 debut artists were either siblings or children of famous musicians,[10] including Daniyal Zafar brother of Ali Zafar, Zaw Ali daughter of Sajjad Ali, Sanwal Khan Esakhelvi son of Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi. Shows co-producer Bilal Maqsood said, "all of these young musicians are actually very good at what they do," further saying, "it was just by chance that Season 10 will end up featuring so many of them."[7] Bilal explained these debuts with their acclaimed families members including saying, "We have high hopes from all of them. Danyal Zafar, for instance, is a very good singer and we had listened to his demo recording even last year, Sanwal Eesakhelvi is very talented. Akbar Ali is an artist of considerable stature in the classical music genre and he has done a brilliant job. Sajjad Ali had composed a song that required a female vocalist and he suggested that his daughter should sing with him. We listened to her and her voice complements the song very well.”[11] Ali Zafar commented on the career debut of his youngest brother Danyal Zafar, "I feel that the struggle is very important and Danyal needs to experience it in order to move ahead."[7] While Danyal said, "I always dreamt of a debut that could best help me express myself as an artist in such a way that my music could also connect with people."[12][13]

Acclaimed singer Humera Arshad marked her debut with this season she expressed, "There is no music releasing companies and under such circumstances I think Coke Studio is doing a great job".[14] Sufi singer and naat-khawan Hina Nasrullah,[15] Lux Style Award winner Aima Baig,[16] and several others also marked their debuts. Salman Ahmad's son Sherjan Ahmad debut as an acoustic guitar to his father's vocals, classical singer Javed Bashir's brother Akbar Ali marked his debut and house band member violinist Javed Iqbal's son Ghulam Muhammad debut as a cello player. Series co-producer Faisal Kapadia said, "For Salman Ahmed’s composition, we needed more guitarists and Salman suggested that since Sherjan had already been playing for him at concerts we could take him on board. We heard Sherjan play and decided to go with him."[7]

Acclaimed guitarist Aamir Zaki made his final appearance with this season,[17] before his death on June 22, 2017.[18][19] Taking on completing a decade,[20] Coca-Cola GM Rizwan U. Khan said, “We have come a long way since we embarked on this challenging journey a decade ago. Looking back, we feel greatly humbled that Coke Studio has been able to achieve so much, in terms of bringing virtually unknown or little known musicians into the national limelight, re-introducing music genres like qawwali and sufi music to the youth of Pakistan, continuing to stay true to the promise of producing quality fusion of music and practically playing an important role in reviving the music industry of Pakistan.”[21][22]

Reception

The show has been critically viewed for not producing new songs. Rafay Mehmood of The Express Tribune said that the lack of original music "has become a chronic problem with Coke Studio. With almost every passing season the title cover studio is becoming more relevant to the show than anything else."[8] The artist-line up received mixed reviews, Asif Nawaz of The Express Tribune quipped, "While it's only time that will tell how the latest season unfolds, the urge to indulge in presenting our two cents about it seems too tempting to resist."[23]

References

  1. ^ a b c Rafay Mahmood (4 July 2017). "Exclusive: Coke Studio 10's line-up will leave you starstruck". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  2. ^ "Coke Studio season 10: Yeh dil mange more". The News. 6 July 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  3. ^ "Coke Studio all set to launch Season 10". The News. 17 July 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  4. ^ Eeshah Omer (7 July 2017). "Here's the nitty gritty: Farhan Saeed to perform in Coke Studio Season 10!". Daily Pakistan. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  5. ^ Rafay Mahmood (7 July 2017). "Shuja Haider's epic journey from queueing for food at Data Darbar to Coke Studio". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  6. ^ Ankita Mehta (19 July 2017). "Coke Studio Pakistan line-up for season 10 to feature Momina Mustehsan, Ali Zafar". IBTimes India. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  7. ^ a b c d Maliha Rehman (23 July 2017). "Curtain Raiser: Enter Millenials". DAWN. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  8. ^ a b Rafay Mahmood (27 February 2017). "Challenges that face Coke Studio 10". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  9. ^ Manal Khan (10 June 2016). "Multiple producers, more original music and new entrants will help re-define Coke Studio". The News. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  10. ^ Darakhshan Anjum (23 July 2016). "All You Need To Know About Coke Studio Season 10". RS - Tech. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  11. ^ Maliha Rehman (23 July 2017). "Young blood from musical families will take centre stage in Coke Studio Season 10". DAWN. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  12. ^ "Danyal Zafar will make his Coke Studio debut with Momina Mustehsan". DAWN Images. 18 July 2017. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  13. ^ "Danyal Zafar is all set to make a dashing musical debut with Coke Studio Season 10". The Express Tribune. 15 July 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  14. ^ Shoaib Ahmed (17 April 2017). "Humaira Arshad will make her Coke Studio debut in Season 10". DAWN Images. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  15. ^ "Hina Nasrullah - featured artist CS season 10". Coke Studio. Retrieved 25 July 2017. ((cite news)): Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  16. ^ "Aima Baig featured artist". Coke Studio. Retrieved 25 July 2017. ((cite news)): Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  17. ^ Sana Gilani (5 July 2017). "Farewell performance of Aamir Zaki expected in this year's Coke Studio". Daily Pakistan. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  18. ^ "Ace guitarist Aamir Zaki passes away at 49". Dawn News. 2 June 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  19. ^ "Legendary guitarist, songwriter Aamir Zaki passes away". Muslim Global. 2 June 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  20. ^ "Coke Studio reaches unique milestone with Season 100". SAMAA news. 18 July 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  21. ^ "Coke Studio Season 10 unique connection with Pakistan 70th Independence day". Paksitan Tribe. 22 July 2017. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  22. ^ "Coke Studio all set to launch Season 10". The International News. 17 July 2017. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  23. ^ Asif Nawaz (6 July 2017). "Coke Studio 10: A season of tributes that is too star-studded to be true?". The Express Tribune (Blogs). Retrieved 7 July 2017.
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