Falak – Dawn, sky, a great height. adj./noun, found in the Urdu and the Persian languages.
In Islamic/Arabic mythology, Falak is the great omnipotent serpent capable of swallowing the entire universe.
FALAK: A MANIFESTO
“There is no alternative”
-- Margaret Thatcher
“Imagine there’s no heaven…
Above us only sky”
-- John Lennon
The Soviet giant lies sprawled, broken, its decayed remnants spread over the continents. We hear Nietzsche, and in the genocidal tendencies of modernity we have killed and buried God. The now redundant Berlin Wall has collapsed, unable to bear its humiliating uselessness any longer. There are no longer any differing political hues on the other side. Its falling bricks have crushed the false gods of vulgar Marxism and all its bastardized variants. Bearing witness to the ruins, we hear that ideology is dead, that history is dead, that man is no more. From these ashes has risen the Phoenix of globalisation and the New World Order; now unchallenged, all-powerful and all consuming.
The New World Order claims the final triumph of liberal democracy, or, at least, of the liberal capitalist state as the highest ethical and intellectual discovery of modernity, despite its holocaustic detours, gulags and gas chambers.
In such humiliating times of false epochs and the synthetic manufacture of myths, our imperative must ever be the search for multiplicities of truth. We believe that all voices must be brought to the fore in order to unveil and displace the myths that prevail about the existing structures and systems that have gained dominance and hegemony. These must not only be the voices of the highly concentrated multi-billion dollar media pundits and the sterile debates of emasculated parliamentary structures, but also the voices of the voiceless, of the communities in rebellion from Chiapas to Papua New Guinea, of wretched of the earth eking out an existence in remarkably creative ways from the favelas of Brazil to the kutchi abadi’s of Pakistan.
We believe that the existing system is premised on oppression, marginalization and exclusion. We believe in the vital need to understand and resist these structures of dominance and architectures of oppression, to challenge the myths produced by the witch-doctors, clerics, politicians, CEO’s, and media pundits. We believe that the lesson to be drawn from the end of the third World War (which was only a Cold War for the powerful, but a brutally hot war for the weak) and the advent of a uni-polar and increasingly uni-cultural world is not the zombieized and intellectually neutered celebration of a globalised free-market utopia. We believe rather that the simplistic and ludicrous belief that diverse and complex human societies can be governed by a single over-arching (meta?) principle, whether that be collective planning or free market allocation, should have suffered rigor mortis along with communism. We believe it is imperative to democratically control resources, material and cultural, in order to provide increased levels of human welfare. We believe that the marginalized peoples of the world have voices as weighted with insight and intrinsic in worth as we would like to believe ours are. We believe that human realities are context producing and that every single person should be able to define and realize such a contextualized conception of welfare on the basis of a radically collective and responsive democracy.
We believe in the reality and possibility of resistance. We believe in many alternatives. We believe…
“Zehni
Ghulami say
Kaash hon hum
Azaad”
- Junoon
“I think, therefore I resist…”
- Falak
SOME REVIEWS:
"[Falak] have already managed to amass a small but loyal fan following in Pakistan. After having seen them perform live, one can safely say they deserve every bit of it."
--Madeeha Syed, "Introducing rebel rock", The Dawn, Sunday, January 14, 2007. Read the FULL REVIEW at http://www.dawn.com.pk/weekly/images/images2.htm
"KARACHI: The city witnessed what is probably the best underground live act in a long time when Falak rocked everyone’s socks off at Basement Café..."
--"Toronto-based Falak’s first gig floors crowd at the Basement" - Daily Times, Tuesday, January 9, 2007. Read the FULL REVIEW at http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007..01..09..story_9-1-2007_pg12_9
"Falak's music rocked the stage, bouncing off the walls of the Club
Rocket last week, as they served up mean guitar riffs and thundering
drum beats and yowled against George W. Bush with their song "Blood
for Oil."
--Apartia Bhandari - "Is Music halal or haram?" Toronto Star, Saturday
June 25,2005
"'[The Falak song] Pukaar' is a moody metal epic delivering the punch of a ten ton hammer, before tapering off with a guitar and vocal melody surely written with audiences of lighter swaying arenas in mind. If this show is any indication, then its time for Falak to change the watered down rock of our times.The world is waiting and so is a fanatic audience, clearly bludgeoned into submission tonight."
--Ali Khan - .Bandbaja(r) - Issue 005 - Mar 04 - Reviews - Falak Live at the PSA
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