Khamaj by Fuzon is one of those songs which I will never get tired of listening. I remember the first time I listened to it. It was sometime after 10th, MTV and V Channel where still music channels instead of the travesty that they have become today. I switched on MTV and there was this Sufi song with a beautiful arrangement of guitar and piano and a silken voice singing. I was hooked.
The song is what I would call a complete package. A beautiful arrangement giving life to some lovely lyrics – that’s the way a song should be. The pain of your lover not speaking to you, the pain of your lover not knowing how much you love her is beautifully set in some haunting lyrics. Even though the song has a Sufi base, the composers have beautifully fit the piano and guitar to the composition. And the best part of the song – Shafqat Amanat Ali with his incredible silken voice and vocal skills. He sings the song with enough pain in his voice to give meaning to those lyrics.
Give the song a listening, if you haven’t heard it before and let me know what you think.
Bonus: Shafqat covered this song in the Coke Studio which is also pretty good.
