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Artist<\/strong><\/td>\r\n| Junoon<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n | Album<\/strong><\/td>\r\n | Parvaaz<\/em><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n | Year<\/strong><\/td>\r\n | 1999 CE<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n | Lyricists<\/strong><\/td>\r\n | Salman Ahmad and Sabir Zafar<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n | Language<\/strong><\/td>\r\n | Urdu<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n | Type<\/strong><\/td>\r\n | Sufi rock<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n | Introduction:<\/h2>\r\n\u00a0<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\nA soulful reminder of human mortality, \u201cMitti\u201d is an amazing, underrated song by the Pakistani band Junoon. Founded in 1990 and comprising Salman Ahmad, Ali Azmat, and Brian O\u2019Connell, Junoon introduced the genre of \u201cSufi rock\u201d to the world. Sufi rock takes modern musical compositions featuring the electric guitar, bass guitar, and drums, and infuses them with poetry written or inspired by spiritual masters such as Bulleh Shah and Allama Iqbal. It is an appealing combination, particularly for those dissatisfied by the vacuous lyrics of a lot of modern music.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n\u201cMitti\u201d was released in 1999 on Junoon\u2019s fifth album,\u00a0Parvaaz<\/em>. The band dedicated the album to Bulleh Shah (1680-1757), a renowned Punjabi mystic and poet. Some of the songs on\u00a0Parvaaz<\/em>, including \u201cBulleya\u201d and Aleph\u201d, directly feature Bulleh Shah\u2019s poetry, while others were inspired by his work. The lyrics of \u201cMitti\u201d were co-written by Salman Ahmad (1963-present), the lead guitarist and main founder of Junoon, and Sabir Zafar (1949-present), a Pakistani poet. Zafar wrote several songs for Junoon and other Pakistani artists, such as Nazia Hassan and Sajjad Ali.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\nThrough Ali Azmat\u2019s powerful vocals, \u201cMitti\u201d serves as an auditory\u00a0memento mori<\/em>, or reminder of death. The key Urdu idiom used in the song is \u201cmiTTi meN mil jaana\u201d (\u0645\u0679\u0651\u06cc \u0645\u06cc\u06ba \u0645\u0650\u0644 \u062c\u0627\u0646\u0627) \u2013 which literally means \u201cto mix\/blend into the soil of the earth\u201d, referring to the decomposition of corpses. Figuratively, the phrase also means \u201cto turn to dust\u201d or \u201cto be ruined\u201d. 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