LAHORE, Apr 10, 2012 (IPS) - The silencing of music in the name of Islam led Pappu to give up the cello and
set up a tea stall. But Pappu and other musicians survived the Islamist regime
for former dictator Zia ul-Haq and the recent ways of the Taliban to return to
the most surprising group of musicians to have emerged over years – on a
dusty little street in the Pakistani city Lahore.
Little known at home on a street taken over by car showrooms, Sachal made waves on the international
music scene last year with their rendition of the 1959 jazz number Take Five.
Originally by the American Dave Brubeck Quartet, Sachal’s rendition hit the top of jazz album charts on
iTunes in Britain and the United States.
IPS-Inter Press Service
