At The Drive In, Rage Against The Machine, Nirvana, Shakti, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Q and not U, Ravi Shankar, James Brown, Thelonious Monk, Radiohead, Gist, Javad Nurbaksh, Pappu Sain, Soul Coughing, Bob Marley, Abida Parveen, The Beatles, Rancid, The Clash, Keith Haring, The Descendants, Social Distortion, Jalaluddin Rumi, Queen, Bjork, Jackson Pollock, Amir Khusrau, Jimi Henrdix, Loomit, Fugazi, The Pietasters, The Decepticonz, Kuldeep Manak, Bad Religion, Goldfinger, Sponge, Earth crisis, Alex grey, Chuck Brown, Debashish Bhattacharya, Jerry Uelsmann, Bulleh Shah, Gangstarr, John Coltrane, Beastie Boys, Mehdi Hassan, Saul Williams, The Ramones, Ministry, Tool, Seth Tobocman, Tabla Beat Science, Enjoy incubus, Vilayat Khan, George Clinton, Amitabh Bachan, System of a down, Red hot chilli peppers, Sun Ra, Thrice, Black Star, Pink floyd, The Doors, Beck, Shahid Parvez, The Police, Circa Survive, Arctic Monkeys, Aziz Mian, The Suicide Machines, Cheb Mami, A Tribe Called Quest, The Sugarcubes, The Mars Volta, Dhol Foundation,
Sarmust explores a mixture between Alt-Rock, Post-Hardcore, Dance, Funk, Classical and Folk music from South Asia and Sufi musical traditions like Qawwali. In an attempt to create a new sound that is rooted in angst and spirituality but ultimately about activism.
Counterculture is vital to society, and has always existed...
"The movement which is the existence of the universe is the movement of love." -
Ibn 'Arabi
"Don't worry about saving these songs!
and if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter
We have fallen into the place where everything is music" - Jalal ad-Din Rumi
"Destroy the Masjid and Mandhar
Destroy whatever will Fall
But Don’t Break Anyone’s Heart
For God Lives in the Heart" - Bulleh Shah
"And do you think that unto such as you;
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew:
God gave the secret, and denied it me?--
Well, well, what matters it! Believe that, too." - Omar Khayyam
"In the prison courtyard, trees with no homeland
are engrossed, heads drooping, creating art in images on the sky's hem." - Faiz Ahmed Faiz
