Samar Mehdi - Safa

You can buy the mini-album here: https://samarmehdi.in/discography/ep-urooj-2018/ With my first (home)studio effort titled, "Urooj", I have attempted to symbolize as well as push towards a time in Indian musical expression where it tussles to gain higher societal relevance beyond the tag of "just entertainment". Safa (cleanse) is the third track on the EP and talks about washing yourself of yourself. The word, “Urooj” translates to “ascension, rise” and describes the event of rising from obscurity to the prime of individual existence. The EP is essentially based on existentialism and circles around the question, “what gives meaning to your life?”. Conceptually, what I have hoped to achieve through Urooj is that the five tracks on it will be mere reminders of one’s most unfiltered qualities and how they are easily brushed aside by the demands of the world – how de-conditioning our mind and way of life from that which doesn’t come to us naturally but was pushed down on us as necessity is that key to the purest, most uncorrupted self that our heart always seeks. It starts there and then – the search for meaning – but the first step is to get there and that in itself is a life-altering experience. More often than not, beyond that is clarity, or at the very least, perspective. Is there an alternate way of life? Can you be more or less than who you are? Is it worth a shot? Choose. -- Tracklist: 0. [Bonus Track] Kashmakash-Qa'ar 1. Urooj 2. Parey 3. Safa 4. Aazaad 5. Yaheen -- All songs written and performed by Samar Mehdi. Engineered, mixed and mastered by Aman Arakh. (Aman dedicates his contribution on this EP to the memory of his late grandmother, Shri Sumitra Devi, who passed away while this EP was in the works. “For what you made out of my father, who is the light of the entire family, may your love and affection forever find a way through to us. Farewell.”) All songs produced by Samar Mehdi and Aman Arakh. Album Art by Farah Ahmad.