Amid uncertainty and hopelessness for Kashmiri artists, Radio Mirchi (RM) 98.3 FM’s Corridor 983 series is a silver lining for the artists thinking about switching to other professions. The series aims at promoting the music of home-grown talent here.
Four months after RM 98.3 FM launched its station in Jammu and Kashmir, the team through social media and recommendations has started to work on locating the undiscovered and unsung talent from Kashmir. For the series, the local musicians were approached, curated and recorded in RM’s corridor, in a multi-camera setup. The episodes will be run weekly for a month.
“With permission from our Delhi office, we have started the series specific to and in Kashmir. We worked for it on our off days. We want the art to be good. There are many artists in Kashmir but they don’t know how to market their art. This series will be a launching pad for the artists of Kashmir people don’t know about,” says Anees Zargar, Programmer at RM.
The first episode of the series is a song featuring a band named “Azaad Parinday” comprising the trio Iqbal Shah and brothers Numan and Furqan Baba. Other artists whose programmes would be run in the series are Nargis Khatoon, Ambreen Hakani, Harkishan Singh Sanam and Umar Majeed.
