Zerobridge

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Check out Zerobridge, a qawwali-influenced alt-rock band from Brooklyn. Mubashir Din plays guitar, Mohsin’s on drums and Greg Eckelman rocks the bass. The Din brothers trace their roots to Kashmir. Listen here and here.

I’m diggin’ the clean guitar melody on ‘Out in the Distance.’ The instrumental ‘Bleed‘ samples ‘Chalte Chalte’ from Pakeezah and evokes the wall of sound from Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Cherub Rock.’ ‘Refugee Citizen‘ reminds me of the Velvet Underground.

The group explains its name:

Zerobridge is an actual bridge in Kashmir’s capital, Srinagar. The story goes that as they were building bridges to connect the suburbs to the city center, they would name them by numbers, 1 Bridge, 2 Bridge, etc. The only bridge that was there before construction didn’t have a name, and so they called it Zerobridge. [Link]

Over the summer, they rocked my building’s roof (photos) as well as a smaller party (photos).

I think on our record we released in September (2003), being in Kashmir was definitely an influence. We were there just after the Indian parliament bombing after 9/11…

South Asian artists such as the the Sabri Brothers and Hindi film composers like A.R. Rahman and Ismail Darbar are an influence as well. [Link]

10 thoughts on “Zerobridge”

  3. I’m hearing some Junoon in there too.

    Agreed! Also, is it just me, or does “Bleed” sound similar to some of U2’s stuff…?

  5. Man these guys rock something..good find. Refugee Citizen is excellent, and OutInDistance is absolutely gazoombax! Awesome.

    generic_desi: apart frm “Duur”(their title track), “sar kiye ye pahadh” and “Anjaane”, do you know of any other good ones frm Strings? I’ve heard a few of them earlier..they were not quite impressive. And definitely I wudn’t club zerobridge in their league. ZB sounds much much better than them.

  6. Nice post. I always get this feeling with Indian music sites that they may not be a 100% legit. Good thing the artists themselves are making the music available. BTW are Raaga.com/musicindiaonline legit?

  8. yo sepia people what the fuk is up with the picture of me vomitting as i play?! i assure u i am a lil better lookin that! thanks for the support people. look out for big things from us. peace and luv mo (drummer of zerobridge a.k.a crazy fuk in the picture.)