Constructed on consolation, connection and catchy pop traces, collaboration feels much less like a launch, extra like a dialog
LAHORE:
Jal frontman Goher Mumtaz has dropped a breezy new monitor, ‘Har Saal’, that includes Aima Baig, marking his first-ever standalone collaboration with the singer.
Written and composed by Mumtaz, the music was launched on Monday with an accompanying music video. The music additionally brings Mumtaz’s band Jal into the combo, making it a three-way collaboration.
Saying the discharge on Instagram, Mumtaz saved it easy, writing: “Aima Baig x Goher Mumtaz x JAL.”
The music video, produced by Goher Mumtaz Productions, leaned into intimacy and ease moderately than spectacle. It opens with Mumtaz experimenting with a tune on the keyboard earlier than abandoning it in delicate frustration and switching to the guitar, clearly extra his consolation zone.
That shift turns into the cue for Baig to hitch in, mid-orange juice pour, signalling her approval by slipping effortlessly into the melody. What follows is a sequence of heat, unguarded moments: the 2 singing, jamming, and enjoying off one another like lovebirds, carried by a catchy, pop-forward tune that by no means tries too exhausting.
Two weeks previous to the discharge, the duo teased ‘Har Saal’ with a brief trailer that set the temper early on. “Some tales are informed in concord,” the intro of the trailer learn, a line that neatly summed up the music’s tender, romantic vitality.
Reflecting on the collaboration, Mumtaz shared his inventive course of: “Really, once I composed the music, so, you already know, as a producer and composer, while you’re sitting in your studio, totally different voices, feminine voices come, who ought to they do it with? I believed, you already know, her vocals, she does an excellent reduce by means of in all these mixes. I despatched her that music, it was tough, and he or she was candy sufficient to say in a minute that ‘I like the music and I need to sing this music’.”
Aima Baig echoed the keenness, recalling, “So, he despatched me the monitor, clearly, and I put it on. I fell in love with the monitor immediately. He is proper, he is 100% appropriate. As a result of I needed to problem myself, as a result of it was a melodic rap.
In case you really hearken to it, we’re singing it, nevertheless it’s really like we’re going backwards and forwards. So, backwards and forwards can be a type of rap, proper? So, I used to be like, okay, I’ve by no means finished something like this earlier than. I’ve finished people, I’ve finished Punjabi, Saraiki, however this I’ve by no means finished. So, I immediately stated, and I at all times needed to sing with Gohar as properly. I have been a fan, I’m a fan.”
She added warmly, “Clearly, as a result of I have a look at him as a legend, which he’s. He is an icon. All of us love him, and I’ve by no means met an individual who doesn’t like him. To be trustworthy. However, once I labored on the film, I had an concept that that is going to be only a musical vibe. He is a musical dude. He isn’t stuffed with himself.”
This is not the primary time we have heard Baig and Mumtaz sing collectively. In Mumtaz’s 2024 movie ‘Abhi’, by which he starred reverse Kubra Khan, featured a wealthy soundtrack with contributions from Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Tanya Wells, Baig, Nish Asher, and Mumtaz himself.
Multi-instrumentalists Leo Twins additionally performed a task in shaping the movie’s music. Baig and Mumtaz sang the music ‘Saathiya’ collectively.
Mumtaz had famous, “All of the songs picturised on Kubra have been sung by Aima.” With ‘Har Saal’, that inventive overlap prolonged past the display screen, settling right into a collaboration that feels harmoniously in sync.
The monitor is now out there on Spotify and all main streaming platforms.
