Camera Camera (Nazia and Zoheb Hassan album) explained
Camera Camera is the 1992 studio album by Nazia and Zoheb.[1] Primarily in the Urdu language, the album also featured two English songs (If and If You Could Read My Mind). Reviews noted that the album was influenced by the Pet Shop Boys.[2] [3] The album came several years after the successful run of four LPs which had ended with the 1987 album Hotline. This fifth album enjoyed only modest success and was the duo's last.[4] [5]
Track list
- Camera
- If
- Mehrbani
- Wala Wai
- Tali de Thullay
- Camera (Dance Mix)
- Nasha
- Pyar Ka Geet
- If You Could Read My Mind
- Mama Papa
- Dil Ki Lagi
- Kyoun
Credits
Vocals – Nazia Hassan, Zoheb Hassan
Lyrics By – Nazia Hassan and Zoheb Hassan, Indevar, Sabir Zafar.
Music By, Arranged By, Producer – Zoheb Hassan (tracks: 1, 2, 5, 6 to 10, 12)
Music By – Bappi Lahri (tracks: 3, 4, 11), Mian Yousuf Sallauddin (track 5), Gordon Lightfoot (track 9)
Producer – Jamie Lane (tracks: 2, 9)
Remix – Jamie Lane (tracks: 4, 6, 7)
Keyboards, Programmed By, Guitar – Tony Lowe
Saxophone – Martin Dobson
Tabla, Percussion – Kuljit Burma
Publisher: Timbuktu Records UK LTD
Photography by – D.C.B. Photos
Album Cover Design – The Bureaux Graphics Group
Notes
On the CD inlay:
"We would really like to thank our fans; you are the reason for our success over the last decade. We would also like to thank our parents for their encouragement, guidance and support and all at Timbuktu records for believing in the project"
Notes and References
- The Herald - Volume 38, Issues 7-9 2007 "It would not be amiss to say that music was never the same again after "Aap Jaisa Koi..." Over the next several years Nazia and Zoheb continued to rock not just the Pakistani but also the Indian disco scene; Disco Deewane that broke sales records across the subcontinent was followed by four more albums - Boom Boom, Young Tarang, Hotline and Camera Camera - released between 1982 and 1992. They were also pioneering enough to release videos of their tracks — another first."
- The Herald - Volume 23, Issues 5-8 - Page 150 1992 Nazia and Zoheb HASSAN Camera Camera From the opening bars of the title track of this new LP from Pakistan's pioneer pop duo, Nazia and Zoheb, we know that the latest source of inspiration for the filial twosomes the British techno pop group, Pet Shop Boys. But that's not all. These : are a host of other people lending their services. There are two tracks composed by the prolific Indian film music director, Bappi Lahiriandon.
- Asian News Digest 2000 In the early 80s, Nazia and Zohaib released Young Tarang in Pakistan. The Hassan siblings, along with Alamgir and Muhammad AM Shahki, are regarded as the trend-setters of disco music in Pakistan. In 1987, EMI music company released the album Hotline featuring Naiza and Zohaib. It had the popular numbers Hum Aur Turn, Turn or Hum and Aisa Kya Hai Paisa. The duo also made several appearances on Pakistan Television. Their last album was Camera Camera released in early 90s, which had the numbers ..."
- Stan JeffriesEncyclopedia of World Pop Music, 1980-2001 - Page 84 0313315477 - 2003 "Eight years later a third album, Camera Camera, was released; but the record displayed little development beyond the sound that had proved so popular almost a decade earlier, and it enjoyed only modest success."
- Collectif, Antoinette Fouque, Mireille Calle-Gruber -Le Dictionnaire universel des créatrices 2015 2721006517 - "Déçue par le manque de succès relatif de son album Camera camera et par le milieu du show-business, elle abandonne la chanson au début des années 1990 et s'engage dans une série de missions philanthropiques au sein d'institutions internationales. N. Hassan n'a cessé de promouvoir le soutien aux enfants, aux déshérités, aux toxicomanes. Bien qu'elle ait toujours considéré la musique pop comme un passe-temps, son influence artistique s'est révélée considérable."
