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00:01Wow okay I'm gonna rewind and I'm gonna start over. I'm feeling goosebumps all
00:06over you guys and I hope you guys can turn this up.
00:12Hello everybody welcome back. Welcome to the Ultimate World Music Reaction Channel.
00:16It's your girl Rosalie. We are all about real talk and real reactions here. Reviewing
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00:42could be up-to-date on everything going on. I'm happy that you stopped by. So we're
00:45gonna start with something from the beautiful Pakistan today. I'm so excited
00:50to finally be looking at another Koch Studio session today. Season 7. Chap Tilak.
00:55I don't know what it's about, what they're gonna be saying, but I will do my best to
00:59put on subtitles and follow along and we'll dive into the lyrics afterward.
01:03Today's shout out goes to Kurt. Thank you for your copies and your requests and your
01:07patience as I'm getting through the list and for suggesting this. I'm really, really
01:11excited. What we know about Koch Studio so far is it's these sessions with various
01:16different musicians and singers. These groups that come together making amazing
01:21songs, amazing songwriting skills. And they come together, excuse me, for the Koch Studios.
01:26I know that Nescafe Basement does it as well. And I believe it's also spreading
01:30more and more worldwide. But this is or was originating in Pakistan. And the things
01:35that I've been hearing, the music I've been experiencing has just been...
01:39I was jamming out at a coffee shop the other day and a couple of gentlemen to my
01:43right who were talking, they were asking me what I was listening to. I was listening
01:48to Bolhu at the time and then later on Aadat. And yeah, there's just so much joy all over
01:54me and inside of me when I experience these songs. So I'm excited to see what they do here.
01:58Chap, chap, tilak. I don't know what that means. So let's look it up. It's Urdu. What
02:04does that mean in Hindi, in the Urdu language? And somebody wrote that it means giving up
02:09yourself. Okay, I'm seeing a couple of different things here. I'm seeing that it's a reference
02:13from poetry. Amir Kusrau, in his poetry, in his literal meaning, it has this idea of adornment.
02:22Hindu women adorn themselves with tilak, which is called tika or bendija in Urdu.
02:27Then I'm also seeing that someone said it's this idea of converting a non-Muslim to Islam.
02:33A Hindu has given up his identity as soon as he meets Allah. He gives up his attire
02:39and the vermilion from his forehead. But then I'm also seeing someone say I'm amazed
02:42that how stupid these answers are. And then someone said, chap tilak, if you're referring
02:47to the writings of Amir, mean it's a mark on older religions, a mark that Muslim men had
02:53on their forehead. It's this idea of bowing down to Allah in prayer. And it's a dark mark
02:59in the middle of the forehead. Tilak is the red mark that religious Hindus do on their forehead.
03:04So I'm not exactly sure. Let me know in the comments below. But I'm seeing this idea
03:10that it comes from poetry. It comes perhaps referring to this idea of turning to Allah.
03:14They write this mark on the forehead. I'm not sure. But I do think even if I'm looking
03:17at some of the translations here, there's this idea of devotion.
03:20Okay, let's not read into it too much. I want to see what this is about.
03:24So, Coke Studio Season 7, Chaaptilak, Abida Parveen, and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. Here we go.
03:3049 million views, you guys. So just for those of you who are new to this channel and don't
03:34know what we do, we explore music from all around the world. And as you can see, there
03:37are songs out there with millions and millions of views that many of us have never heard before
03:41because it's not necessarily mainstream, it's not on the radio, but nonetheless just as beautiful,
03:46if not even more beautiful. So let's check it out. Here we go. I'm excited.
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05:06Wow.
05:07Wow.
05:07Okay.
05:08I'm gonna rewind it.
05:08I'm gonna start over.
05:10I'm feeling goosebumps all over you guys and I hope you guys can turn this up or embrace this
05:14maybe with some good headphones or I hope the audio is good enough for you where you can really
05:19experience this we'll talk about the lyrics after so if you don't understand I don't speak Urdu
05:23but um put on the subtitles now and if you don't understand this language and we've not talked yet
05:29about all the different things that are being sung here I would encourage you to stay experience it
05:34to me this is already spiritual this is almost like there's such a and I'll go back and then
05:40we'll dive in but there's such an element of reverence here the way they're sitting on the
05:43floor um a level of simplicity here there's no show there's no sexualization and there's something
05:49so beautiful I watched a movie last night and I won't go off on a tangent but it was called
05:53I
05:54believe synchronized or synchronic yes it was called synchronic and it's actually a pretty good movie
05:59but without going into detail about what it is the idea of time being such an illusion present past
06:04and future and it was just beautiful and powerful psychologically philosophically diving into a bit
06:10of that existential theory and life and death and such and just seeing this beauty here these
06:16beautiful human beings who are using their instruments literally their instruments their
06:20voice as an instrument and there's this idea of reverence here right now that's giving me goose
06:25bumps but that is so beautiful to me in a world where there's some so much over sexualization and
06:31there's evil and there's wickedness and evil is glorified and what is confused is romanticized
06:35and things are becoming much more murky and confused there's something so beautiful about simplicity and
06:41about seeking something that is higher than us and outside of ourselves so that's just my first
06:46impression so again I encourage you if you don't understand what's happening here just experience
06:50it just experience the music maybe close your eyes take a deep breath let's just explore this together
07:03beautiful already that piano introduction the bass okay
07:35happy Plus they can reach it if there are so many faint who want to experience it in a world
07:45my own looking for 2 mid tens of thousands of thousands of thousands of테
07:54or three inch wrang was lost notактиked my heart is not out of something even today but sometimes i do
07:56my
07:56ھائے لاغی لاغی لاغی سب کہیں لاغی لگی نہ انگ
08:18لاغی تو جب جانیے جب رہے گرو کے سنگ
08:29مولا
08:35جن اب مولا
08:49خسرہ رین سوہاگ کی
08:59خسرہ رین سوہاگ کی
09:09جو میں جاگی پی کے سنگ
09:17خسرہ آجی پیم کی
09:24خسرہ بازی پیم کی
09:28جو میں کھیلی پی کے سنگ
09:32جیت گئی تو پی آیا ہارے
09:43جو میں ہاری پی کے سنگ
09:50چھاپ دلک سب چھین
09:54ہیرے موسیرینہ ملائی کے
10:00چھاپ دلک سب چھین
10:07ہیرے موسیرینہ ملائی کے
10:12چھاپ دلک سب چھین
10:18ہیرے موسیرینہ ملائی کے
10:24نینہ ملائی کے
10:30موسیقی
10:39موسیقی
10:40موسیقی
10:41موسیقی
10:50موسیقی
10:51موسیقی
10:55موسیقی
10:57موسیقی
11:00موسیقی
11:03موسیقی
11:05موسیقی
11:07موسیقی
11:10موسیقی
11:11موسیقی
11:13I will never hear you, I will never be a fool
11:21I will never meet you
11:26I will never meet you
11:41I will never meet you
11:46I will never meet you
11:52I'll never meet you
12:05I will never meet you
12:16I'm not a new name, I'm not a new name
12:28I love you, I love you, I love you
15:58Wow.
16:00Wow.
16:03Okay, where do I begin?
16:06This was beautiful.
16:08Okay, so I love and I've said this in some of the other Coke Studio or Nescafe basement reactions.
16:42I love that there's a combination.
16:43They're the instruments, wind instruments, wind instruments, wind instruments, wind instruments, wind instruments, stringed instruments here I couldn't see and
16:48maybe I was missing it but I couldn't see different instruments in full.
16:51I feel like the biggest focus with the camera was the singers, the vocal performers, as well as the drums.
16:57but even the um composition of the instrument of the piano introduction the drums him going off
17:03there for a second towards the end and then the um percussion instruments that carried the track
17:09throughout and the rhythm that we can find in pakistani and in in indian music that
17:16it really carries it and gives it that beautiful um cultural flair combined with more modern more
17:23recent instruments what they were doing vocally was so beautiful you know how in in our culture in
17:27the west um we may be more used to a lot of the vibrato or we may be used to
17:31a lot of soulful
17:33runs in in hindi there is a technique called taan which is which occurs in those vocal performances
17:39of raga in hindustani classical music and it's this improvisation of very rapid melodic passages
17:46where they use vowels often the long ah like i can't do it like they did but um as in
17:54the word
17:55far far ah it brings in this element of improvisation and it expands this this weaving together of the
18:03different notes um in a in a fast tempo so they're doing this in a very fast tempo but they're
18:08weaving
18:09the notes together and what they also do is they have this rapid dip in pitch where um that's often
18:15called as a taan gesture and it's um it's an op it's it's contrasting to um the vocal modulation
18:22that classical singers do with vibrato right or with those runs where they transition between pitches
18:28through a run you know right but here it's this rapid dip which is also a type of um vocal
18:36modulation
18:37between notes jumping rapidly and transitioning between pitches and notes and they're doing it so
18:44quickly and beautifully without missing a beat and what's fascinating to me and this is also
18:48something that's more common in eastern culture is some of the notes some of these minor notes and
18:53some of the note compositions are very unique right where in the west and i'm going to keep it really
18:58basic we might hear note compositions of la da da da da da right and then in in the eastern
19:05culture
19:05we often find these uh minor notes or we find these shifts that are
19:14you know right like this it lingers in such a unique way and it switches between very unique note
19:21arrangements and and um combinations raga raga is the melodic element um it's crafted by improvising
19:30on fixed patterns of ascension and descension and then um tala is that rhythmic structure
19:36um on which that melody is laid you might have this cyclical beat these these transitions that
19:43arrange anywhere from simple to really intricate which we could totally see here in their in their
19:48singing going from the soft and gentle transition of various notes to really going back and forth at a
19:54very fast tempo transitioning very quickly to hitting those high notes what he was doing what both of
20:01them were doing her voice it felt very soothing and full she had a very rich full tone a subtle
20:07rasp
20:07to her probably an alto if i heard correctly what he was doing was profound because he was starting on
20:13those lower notes but he was able to take it to some of those really high notes possibly a tenor
20:17i'm not
20:17sure uh transitioning so flawlessly starting with those minor notes climbing the ladder perfectly
20:22flawlessly ending with perfect pitch what sounded to me on the note that he was trying to reach
20:27just beautiful profound but the the way that their voices complemented each other and then the four
20:32gentlemen that almost um felt it initially almost felt like this backup vocals but they were so much
20:38more they i felt like were singing that chorus over and over again and just the combination of them
20:43together all four of them and then eventually all six of them coming together brought in such a fullness
20:48that just it was just so beautiful the drums the percussion instruments really combining the modern
20:54with the the cultural elements and then the lyrics that's what got me a lot just knowing that this was
20:59about devotion just having a subtle very simple idea of what this may be about but it went so much
21:04deeper than that the lyrics say i've staked all i have my wealth my body my very soul all a
21:09good fortune
21:09has showered its blessing on me everyone makes a play of devotion devotion everyone makes a play of
21:15devotion but true devotion is not achieved you will know the true meaning of devotion when you devote
21:20yourself to your spiritual master and then later it says if i kept awake with my dear one the game
21:24of
21:24love if i play with my dear one i will win my sweetheart is mine i'm sorry if i win
21:29my sweetheart is
21:30mine if i lose i'm still with my dear one you've snatched away all trace of me with one glance
21:35of your
21:35enchanting eyes and that would take um that would tag repeatedly with your glance with a glance of your
21:41enchanting eyes and then later she's saying whether or not you agree to speak to me whether or
21:45not you agree to listen um i will not leave your side my beloved with one glance of your enchanting
21:52eyes you've snatched away all trace of me this song is beautiful and then in the end it speaks of
21:57the
21:58the night uh of the prophet's celebration has dawned the night has dawned whoever is veiled he chose the
22:04color blessed became his fortune you've snatched away all trace of me um absolutely beautiful when
22:11she first started when the ideas first started and i just knew a few things such as it's about
22:16devotion and the and i was reading the subtitles the game of love i thought to myself this could
22:20definitely have this idea of reverence and towards god devotion towards god and then later when it spoke
22:26of they love being a game i thought this is also relatable with relationships you guys know we're all
22:31about music and psychology so let's talk about that for just a quick second um what i find beautiful
22:36here and what i find also um very convicting and very very real is this idea of saying you make
22:45a
22:45game of devotion you you make a what did it what did it say you um everyone makes a play
22:51of devotion i
22:52feel like and i'm not saying that that's what they're trying to communicate here but music is art
22:56and it's subjective so these are my thoughts when it comes to faith when it comes to this idea of
23:00god
23:00something greater than ourselves something we believe in regardless of a specific religion but
23:05just faith in general i feel that sometimes it really does look like feel like we live in a world
23:11where devotion is made fun of right that goes for relationships we live in a world where things are
23:17hyper sexualized where things are romanticized and glorified that are evil and immoral and where you
23:23know people that maybe speak of loyalty of modesty of devotion may be made fun of by certain people
23:30groups right where this idea of devotion to faith may be frowned on right because people may be called
23:35prude or or radical and such and we live in a world where when it comes to faith oftentimes we
23:41can see that
23:42things are being watered down where religion is either used as a weapon to hurt others or where it's used
23:47as a play of ego right i'm right you're wrong or where it's used just to excuse our choices
23:53and things are watered down messages are watered down things we find in wisdom texts are now turned
23:58to accommodate us to make us feel good you find that even in christianity right where people are
24:03eating the crumbs off of another person's plate and what i mean by that is if we only look to
24:08other
24:08leaders pastors preachers leaders speakers to be fed psychologically and spiritually it's no wonder
24:15we're starving if we're not doing the research ourselves there are so many people out there that
24:18are preaching and they might not even be preaching correctly their theology might be off their
24:23philosophy their way of life right god knows what goes on behind closed doors and i'm not saying that
24:28to take away from those who are genuine about their ministry and about what they say for any religion
24:32but i'm talking about where people may not even fully know what they believe they may not be
24:37actually doing the studies but even those who do they go and maybe they write their sermon they write
24:42their wisdom text they prepare their message if it's a sermon a pastor a preacher a leader
24:47whatever right it could be a motivational speaker they go they do their research and they present
24:51their information many people just go to listen and they want to be fed and i guess feed off of
24:58the work that person did to study and to gain wisdom and to seek god and if that's all we
25:04get fed those
25:05crumbs and leftovers of the meal that they had spiritually and and emotionally and psychologically it's no wonder
25:12we're starving we have to go do the research ourselves we have to go study the scriptures we have to
25:16research and devote ourselves but a lot of times people just want to be fed they want to go somewhere
25:20on a sunday a saturday want to go to a motivational speaker right this is i'm not just talking religion
25:25i'm talking anyone who has a message it could be a motivational speaker 10 ways to improve your life
25:30five ways to become rich right youtube is a powerful great tool where we can gain wisdom and knowledge
25:35but it depends who we listen to and it's at a fingertip now we can just listen be fed a
25:39little bit
25:39and we get those crumbs off of the meal of the person and what they did and researched and learned
25:44but what if they didn't really do research what if they just wrote a sermon wrote a motivational speech
25:48based off of things that they were told so things are just getting watered down the food is just
25:53getting you know less and less nutritious and now we get the crumbs we have to do the feeding ourselves
25:59we have to go study study the the holy scriptures study the um the texts study these this content so
26:06we
26:06can be eating steak ourselves and not just crumbs off of someone else's plate and it's no wonder we're
26:10starving if that's how we live if we just go to be fed somebody give me a good sermon make
26:14me feel
26:14good give me a good motivational post so i could feel a little bit better about myself for a few
26:18minutes and then i go on that's not true devotion right that's second degree third fourth degree
26:23devotion where other people feed us and where we look to other people to inspire us and so i in
26:28this
26:28world where it does feel like devotion modesty things that are sacred are often being ridiculed
26:34people make a play of it where is that real devotion that real commitment and then it says
26:40you will know the true meaning of devotion when you devote yourself to your spiritual master so this
26:44idea of devoting yourself surrendering to someone which to me goes with the part that sings about
26:50i have all of me have been has been snatched away you've snatched away all trace of me with one
26:55glance
26:55of your enchanting eyes this idea of complete just surrender where you lose yourself in something
27:00you're so immersed in it now that's one perspective this idea of faith devotion even goes with what it
27:06sings what they sing in the end about that that night of the of the blessed uh prophet the prophet's
27:12celebration has dawned and that whoever is veil he chooses to color i guess you could say touch you
27:17know uh blessed becomes his fortune so almost this idea of i devote myself this sacred night is upon us
27:23and if we get touched by this prophet if we get touched um by something sacred we're blessed right
27:28we're fortunate but i also see really um a relatability here to relationship when it speaks
27:34of the game of love and that too is powerful because it can be seen in duality it can be
27:38seen
27:38in regards to human relationship and faith the game of love i will play with my dear one if i
27:44win my
27:44sweetheart is mine if i lose i'm still with my dear one when it comes to love and if you're
27:49completely
27:49devoted to someone perhaps one could say sometimes it's a little bit like a game you play with your dear
27:54one you you you are in this game of love and you try to win over this person that you
27:59love and if
28:00you lose you're still with them maybe in heart maybe in mind and spirit that would be one question
28:06when it comes to faith same thing when we have a devotion for god something greater outside of
28:10ourselves there if we win we're that that thing that we try to obtain with faith is ours and if
28:17we
28:18lose well in a way that would imply there is no losing because i'm still with my dear one maybe
28:22this idea of being so surrounded by god that regardless if you win or lose you've attained
28:30this love because it's all around us because it's so all-consuming and devotion is so strong
28:35that now you know everything of ourselves has been snatched away uh the enchanting eyes same thing here
28:42could reflect on love you know right when you love someone so much and their eyes enchant you
28:45or this idea of god and the love that is so strong that it's so enchanting i feel like it's
28:50a
28:50beautiful way to sing of devotion and love in a very poetic and beautiful way and in a way that
28:56can
28:56be applied um spiritually when it comes to faith when it comes to love and relationship but the way
29:02they were singing oh my goodness absolutely beautiful it says here that the song the lyrical writers
29:09were hazrat amir kusrau and the artists singing it here were abida parvin and rahat fateh ali khan
29:16this is absolutely beautiful a beautiful message of devotion and just just actually powerful what
29:24did you think let me know in the comments below guys this was mesmerizing let me know below i look
29:28forward to reading and seeing what you have to say thank you for watching today remember to like
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