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The Sachal Ensemble 'Song of Lahore' [EPK]
Sachal Ensemble - Love's In Need Of Love Today (Audio) ft. Jim James
Song of Lahore - Official Trailer (2015) - Broad Green Pictures
Limbo Jazz - Wynton Marsalis Quintet with Sachal Jazz Ensemble at Jazz in Marciac 2013
The Sachal Ensemble at United Nations
1 Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues) - Wynton Marsalis
2 Shelter From the Storm - Susan Tedeschi & Derek Trucks
3 Yes, We Can Can - Bilal
4 Man In The Mirror - Becca Stevens
5 Speak - Meryl Streep
6 (What's So Funny Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding - Sean Lennon
7 Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child / Mai Ni - Madeleine Peyroux
8 Get Up, Stand Up / Shalamar - Cibo Matto
9 The Sound of Wonder a/k/a Dama Dam Mast Qalander
10 Love's In Need of Love Today - Jim James
11 Laila Lo Laila - Nels Cline
12 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free - La Marisoul
13 Give Me Love - Seu Jorge
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"Song Of Lahore" is the latest feature-length documentary from Oscar-winning documentarian Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Set in Lahore, Pakistan and New York City, the story follows the members of Pakistan's Sachal Ensemble, a group of master musicians who find international recognition after decades of being forced underground by dictators and religious extremists. Universal Music Classics was enlisted to create not a "soundtrack" to the movie in the traditional sense. Rather, what will be available as a standalone music piece is a companion album to the film, called Sounds Of Lahore. In effect, the album is an "East Meets West" concept project. These songs originate from Pakistan, India, the United States and Jamaica; and all of them are centered on the theme of universal love and hope. The way in which through music, we find the light within the darkness. The album is produced by Grammy-winning producer Eli Wolf (Norah Jones, Al Green, Willie Nelson, Robert Glasper, Elvis Costello).

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  • Song Of Lahore screens at Music Meet / Daily Times
    Posted At: January 7, 2018 12:00 AM

    The ‘Song Of Lahore' is an adroitly crafted classical and musical documentary by Academy Award winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and tyro filmmaker Andy Schocken. The world premiere of the documentary was held at Tribeca Film Festival on April 18, 2015 and its screening in Lahore was held on Saturday in Alhamra as part of the first day of the Lahore Music Meet (LMM) 2018. The duration of...
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  • Jam-packed Karachi crowd appreciates rare opportunity to hear, The Sachal Ensemble / NEWS LINE
    Posted At: November 14, 2017 12:00 AM

    An auditorium jam-packed with an appreciative crowd of Karachi's upper crust got the rare opportunity to listen to the now world famous Sachal Orchestra at a fund-raiser for Developments in Literacy (DIL). The Sachal Orchestra is the brainchild of Izzat Majeed, a Pakistani-born philanthropist from London, with a passion for traditional music. At their Karachi concert, the Masters played a mix of loca...
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  • Jazz and Pakistani music collide when The Sachal Ensemble plays Jack Singer Hall / CBC - Calgary
    Posted At: October 6, 2017 12:00 AM

    Jazz and traditional Pakistani music collide through the genre-bending, powerful and uniquely beautiful performance of The Sachal Ensemble's Song of Lahore. Familiar and cross-cultural iconic songs by Duke Ellington, The Beatles, Dave Brubeck, Henry Mancini, and Richard Rodgers as well as traditional Pakistani folk songs express a collaborative message of peace in the face of a fractious world. ...
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  • Sachal Ensemble set for music and film collaboration with SPAC / The Daily Gazette
    Posted At: September 15, 2017 12:00 AM

    In October, the film "Song of Lahore" and the groundbreaking musical group it documents, Sachal Ensemble, will come to the Capital Region in a collaboration between Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Proctors and Universal Preservation Hall. "Song of Lahore" will be screened at Proctors at 3, 5 and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, and at Bowtie Criterion Cinemas 11 & BTX, Saratoga Springs, on Sunday, Oct. 29. ...
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  • Marking 70 years of Pakistan independence, Sachal Ensemble performs for UN General Assembly / The News International
    Posted At: August 16, 2017 12:00 AM

    The year 2017 marks 70 years of Pakistan's independence and like every year Independence Day was celebrated with a fierce spirit. Aside from events, activities and concerts in Pakistan, some live gigs and performances took place in other countries as well. One such effort was made by Pakistani music group, namely the Sachal Jazz Ensemble, who performed at the United Nations General Assembly on the occasi...
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  • Sachal Ensemble set for US tour this Fall / BroadwayWorld
    Posted At: August 15, 2017 12:00 AM

    A jazz song from the late-50s, an Oxford-educated financial advisor and a group of once-celebrated but unemployed musicians -- some of whom no longer even owned an instrument -- are not the standard ingredients from which global hits are made. But then the story of the Sachal Ensemble, from Lahore, Pakistan, is anything but standard. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} p.p2 ...
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  • The Sachal Ensemble - Song Of Lahore / KZSU review
    Posted At: September 30, 2016 12:00 AM

    Song of Lahore - The Sachal Ensemble is a wonderul collection of old & new songs re-imagined and re-interpreted by Pakistan's The Sachal Ensemble. The singers range from Cibo Matto to La Mirasoul and Seu Jorge. What makes this album different is the inclusion of South Asian musical sounds in each track. All the tracks work in this album.  ***1. Fusion of South Asian sounds esp percussion...
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  • Sachal Jazz Ensemble gets acclaim at Tokyo Jazz Festival / The Nation
    Posted At: September 23, 2016 12:00 AM

    Pakistan's finest orchestra, the Sachal Jazz Ensemble, closed the second day of the Tokyo Jazz Festival with a brilliant show, including a special cameo by Japanese Sitarist Yoshida. The performance included the famous ‘Shalimar' and the Ensemble's internationally renowned cover of Dave Brubeck's ‘Take Five', with the musicians being called out for an encore. Sachal Studios is the brainch...
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  • Sachal Jazz Ensemble. Bringing Pakistani music to the world / The News International
    Posted At: September 6, 2016 12:00 AM

    Jim James of the Morning Jacket and Sachal Jazz Ensemble have collaborated on the single 'Love's in Need of Love Today' which is originally by Motown hero Stevie Wonder. Reaching for the stars Sachal Jazz Ensemble takes the stage during the finale of Tokyo Jazz Festival and gets a shout-out from Jim James of the Morning Jacket. Pakistan's finest orchestra ensemble, Sachal Jazz Ensemble, having be...
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  • The Sachal Ensemble - Song Of Lahore makes Global Village Top 40 for July
    Posted At: August 5, 2016 12:00 AM

    "Song Of Lahore", the latest feature-length documentary from Oscar-winning documentarian Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, set in Lahore, Pakistan and New York City, follows the members of Pakistan's Sachal Ensemble, a group of master musicians who find international recognition after decades of being forced underground by dictators and religious extremists. Universal Music Classics was enlisted to create ...
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  • 'Song of Lahore' wins 'London Indian Film Festival' award / Samaa TV
    Posted At: July 23, 2016 12:00 AM

    Song of Lahore, a documentary by Oscar winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Andy Schocken has won the Audience Choice Award at the prestigious London Indian Film Festival 2016, Europe's largest South Asian Film Festival. The film focuses on the music community of Lahore, which until the late 1970s, was world-renowned for its music and talent. "We are delighted that ‘Song of Lahore&#...
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  • Song of Lahore. How Sachal Studio got started / livemint
    Posted At: June 30, 2016 12:00 AM

    The year 1959 was a signal one in the history of jazz. In a heady period of five months, one artiste after another emerged with the record they would be remembered by: Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue, Charles Mingus' Mingus Ah Um, Ornette Coleman's The Shape Of Jazz To Come. John Coltrane recorded his Giant Steps in the same year. The best-selling jazz album that year, though, was the ...
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  • Sachal Studios East meets West documentary 'Song of Lahore' airing on Scroll - The Reel
    Posted At: June 21, 2016 12:00 AM

    The structure of the 82-minute documentary Song of Lahore by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Andy Schocken loosely resembles a traditional four-movement symphony of sonata, adagio, minuet and allegro. It begins with a musician (Nijat Ali) practising, followed by a slow unfolding of personal histories of several instrumentalists, a dance-like wonderment when the musicians travel to New York City to perform, and...
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  • Song of Lahore. Bustling with the greatest Punjabi virtue of all / Scroll.in
    Posted At: May 23, 2016 12:00 AM

    People who have had a Near Death Experience claim that from the edge of death they are transported to the "Other Side" where they are surrounded by Light and Love. After some time, they are sent back to Earth with a special mission and renewed purpose. Life from that point on, they say, is better than anything they had ever experienced prior to nearly passing away. The Sachal Ensemble, Pakistan's for...
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  • Bilal Teams w/Sachal Ensemble For Allen Toussaint Cover / okayplayer
    Posted At: May 20, 2016 12:00 AM

    Tomorrow, a group of Pakistani musicians will recalibrate western perceptions of the country's centuries-long artistic bloodline with the release of the star-studded compilation album, Song Of Lahore; where eastern musicians collide with the best of the west for a righteous cause. Today, we have the pleasure of bringing you the album's very first offering with the premiere of a Bilal-assisted cover of th...
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  • Song of Lahore - East meets West to make one great whole / LA Weekly
    Posted At: May 19, 2016 12:00 AM

    The slow-moving parade of clamor and stupidity that stops up Times Square might annoy New Yorkers. But late in Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Andy Schocken's cross-cultural jam-session music doc Song of Lahore, the giddy garishness of those blocks comes to exemplify the very idea of free expression. As the Naked Cowboy butchers "Country Roads" and swivels his (not actually naked) tuchus, one of ...
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  • Song of Lahore explores the constraints of musical production within the Islamic Republic / Slant
    Posted At: May 17, 2016 12:00 AM

    Directors Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Andy Shocken compellingly explore the constraints of musical production within the Islamic Republic in Song of Lahore, which follows a group of elderly Pakistani musicians partially influenced by American jazz. Both a chronicle of the band's efforts to sustain their musical tradition and a history of said tradition, the film adopts the structure of a reunion n...
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  • Song of Lahore documentary set to open in select theaters / The American Bazaar
    Posted At: May 15, 2016 12:00 AM

    ‘Song of Lahore', directed by two-time Academy Award® winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Best Documentary, Short Subject: ‘Saving Face', 2012; ‘A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness', 2015) and Andy Schocken, opens in select theaters and is available on DVD, VOD and Digital HD, May 20th. The documentary follows Sachal Studios musicians from their hometown in Pakistan to New York ...
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  • Sachal Music announces Pakistan's first jazz festival / The Express Tribune
    Posted At: April 27, 2016 12:00 AM

    An ensemble that rarely performs in Pakistan, Sachal Music played for eager audiences in Lahore last weekend. Music aficionados made their way to the venue in throngs. The band's default setting is jazz, hybridised with an Rastern classical influence, a style that makes Western audiences naturally inclined towards their music. However, they neither want foreign listeners to leave their comfort zone nor d...
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  • Sachal Studios Orchestra plays Lahore / The News International
    Posted At: April 27, 2016 12:00 AM

    They've been feted world over and are the subject of a documentary by Oscar winning director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy that chronicles their musical journey. For the first time ever, Sachal Studios played for an audience in Pakistan, bringing together their orchestra and jazz ensembles as well as all their recording artistes in one concert. Despite having wooed audiences all around the globe and having recor...
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  • Sachal Studios - Orchestra, jazz, Sufi / The Daily Times
    Posted At: April 25, 2016 12:00 AM

    Sachal Studios, Pakistan's only fully-trained orchestra, for the first time, brought together their orchestra, jazz ensemble and recording artists all in one concert. Renowned artists and people from all walks of life were present on the occasion and performance of Sufi/Kafi, classical, folk music, influences from Lahore to New York showcased on their new Universal album. Sachal Studios is the b...
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  • Song of Lahore review / Variety
    Posted At: April 14, 2016 12:00 AM

    In "Song of Lahore," a skillfully crafted documentary from Academy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and tyro filmmaker Andy Schocken, a small group of Pakistani classical musicians must travel to New York to gain some measure of the respect and acclaim their ancestors enjoyed as inheritors of a centuries-long tradition of artistic excellence. With the imposition of sharia law in the late...
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  • Song Of Lahore: Pakistan's musicians affirm their place in a country that threatens to forget them / The World Post
    Posted At: April 14, 2016 12:00 AM

    The value of one's soul is hard to measure, but Baqir Abbas, a musician in the Pakistani city of Lahore, has it worked out for himself. Abbas' soul is slightly less precious to him than the delicately designed bamboo flutes he carves. "All the stories of the world will play from it, God willing," he says, before kissing his latest instrument and touching it twice to its forehead. Abbas explains his philo...
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  • NPR Latitudes - World Premiere with Pakistan's 'Sachal Ensemble'
    Posted At: April 1, 2016 12:00 AM

    It was five years ago that an unassuming - and highly unlikely - band became the toast of the jazz world. Pakistan's Sachal Ensemble includes studio musicians from their country's once-healthy film industry, which began to decline in the 1970s in a wave of political and religious pressure. With their audience at home close to eviscerated, the members of the Sachal Ensemble and their champion and ...
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