Reviews - Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - 0 Comments

Junoon - Parvaaz

Junoon propelled the idea of an asian band, playing western music in a predominantly asian style, thus staying connected to their roots all whilst straying away from it. Parvaaz was the follow up to Junoon’s previous venture Azadi, which introduced the Sufi Rockers to India & the rest of the world.

With Azadi the band had raised the level of their music to an unprecedented level. While this seemed exciting back than, it would be only the matter of time when the expectations from the band would outweigh the band’s quality of output. Unfortunately with Parvaaz, this is somewhat the case. Parvaaz saw the band adopt a mature milder approach, loosing out on some of the rawness that was associated with Azadi & Inquilaab. There is always the big question about whether a band should stick to their forte and tried and tested formula for making music, or keep trying to reinvent themselves. This album could serve as the perfect model to test that experiment.

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