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Ali Imdad, photographed for Dard Bhari Dastaan

Syed Mohammad Ali Imdad Shah

AliImdad

  • Production
  • Team management
  • Musician coordination
  • Live concert coordination

Works on the planning nobody sees, which is most of what a live night is.

In their own words

Oneofthereasonsanightrunsthewayitwasmeantto

Ali works alongside the others on everything the group has to sort out before a song reaches anybody. Production, team operations, the musicians, and how a live night gets put together.

A group is not only recording and performing. It is people talking, planning and agreeing on things, and getting that right is most of why a night runs the way it was meant to. That is where his work goes, including the agreements around a concert.

Dard Bhari Dastaan runs on shared ideas rather than instructions handed down, so he is in one where people learn from each other and put their weight behind the same thing.

Based in Melbourne, Australia

What they do

WhatAliImdadbringstoDardBhariDastaan

Shares the production and management work

Coordinates the musicians and looks after them

Plans and arranges the live nights

Shares the concert agreements

Keeps the group organised

Works with everybody rather than around them

Music and performances

WheretohearAliImdad

Ali is part of the work behind the songs and the live nights, and sings on the ones where the whole group sings together.

The letter

We only write when there is a song

No weekly round up and nothing to scroll past. When something is finished it goes out once, with the story behind it, and that is the whole arrangement.

One email per song. Leaving is one click and we do not ask why.