{"id":28143,"date":"2021-02-09T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2021\/feb\/09\/pakistani-brummie-siblings-who-made-a-british-classic-of-synthpop-nermin-niazi-feisal-mosleh-disco-se-aagay"},"modified":"2021-02-09T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T09:00:07","slug":"beyond-disco-the-pakistani-brummie-siblings-who-made-a-lost-80s-synth-pop-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28143","title":{"rendered":"Beyond disco: the Pakistani Brummie siblings who made a lost 80s synth-pop classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nermin Niazi and Feisal Mosleh were teenage immigrants blending their Pakistani musical heritage with Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode \u2013 and their punchy disco LP has been rescued from obscurity<\/p>\n<p>Opening its doors in 1970, Birmingham\u2019s Zella Studios played home to a who\u2019s who of the city\u2019s musical greats: Black Sabbath, Band of Joy, the Spencer Davis Group. But the Bristol Street institution was also home to one of the most remarkable and unfairly overlooked albums of the 1980s: Disco Se Aagay, by teenage British-Pakistani sibling duo Feisal Mosleh and Nermin Niazi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I look back now I\u2019m surprised at how much confidence we had,\u201d Niazi says. \u201cI remember walking in and feeling absolutely at home. The smell of the studio stays with me even now. There\u2019s something very comforting and secure about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2021\/feb\/09\/pakistani-brummie-siblings-who-made-a-british-classic-of-synthpop-nermin-niazi-feisal-mosleh-disco-se-aagay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nermin Niazi and Feisal Mosleh were teenage immigrants blending their Pakistani musical heritage with Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode \u2013 and their punchy disco LP has been rescued from obscurityOpening its doors in 1970, Birmingham\u2019s Zella Studios played&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1900,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,427,425,60,1032,79,61,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-dance-music","category-music","category-pakistan","category-pop-and-rock","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28146,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143\/revisions\/28146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}