Rush (1st Album)
Songs in Album

Aaudai Jaadai
Maya
Parkhai
Saathi
Chahanna Ma
To An Angel
Uglyz
Khonnanimo





AAUDAI JAADAI
It was initially written by Miya Arai in Japanese.

Sarun had paid a visit to Jems Pradhan at his studio called Musicwork in order to meet him and talk about a song that Jems had composed. Sarun ended up playing unplugged in front of Jems on his request, who asked him if he had any original compositions. Sarun told Jems that he had a song, but it was in Japanese. Jems asked him to sing it, following which he articulated, “We will create a Nepali song on this tune.” Keeping his word, Jems wrote the lyrics for the song, which took 3 months to be completed.

MAYA
While Sarun and Sudip were waiting for their turn at Musicwork to record Aaudai Jaadai, they came up with a catch riff, which was later to become “Maya”, the 2nd track of their album. They had the tuneful riff but then no lyrics. On asking Reshna Shakya, (poet, Sarun’s cousin sister) if she had any poems, she provided him two, one of which was “Maya”.

PARKHAI
Sarun, Sudip and Rockin were jamming at Rockin’s place. Sarun was on the drums and playing whatever came on his head. Suddenly, he arrived with a catchy beat with some mix of trance and punk rock. Later, Sarun penned down the lyrics regarding long distance relationship. According to him, Parkhai was the first ever Nepali song that he wrote.

SATHI (SAATH DINCHU)
Sarun, Sudip and Zeevat were doing an overnight stay at Zeevat’s place. They had few drinks and were singing the whole night. All of a sudden, Sudip suggested writing a song and came up with the idea to write a song about friendship (Sathi = friend). Sarun sat on the piano and started playing an old tune he had composed back in 2002. Zeevat began to write the lyrics beginning… “Ti mitha pal haru… Ti mitha din haru... Yaad aai rahanchan sadhai, Garmi ma shital ta shishir ma nyano pan, saath diyou timile sadhai.” Then, for a few hours, they took videos cherishing their friendship, tried to make the song perfect and then went off to bed.

The next day, Sarun tried to finish off the song, but in vain. He was searching for something to write, when out of nowhere, he saw his dog looking up at him. An idea crept up in him to write the rest of the chorus dedicating to his dog (Priti) – after all, a dog is a man’s best friend too. It went like “Bhanne le j bhanos, sunne le j sunos, tara timi mero hou sathi… sath dinchu timilai ma sadhai bhari.”

Later the boys sat together and completed the song. This song has a special meaning to their friendship and has an elite place in their hearts, especially when they are overseas.

CHAHANNA MA
Chahanna ma was the last track that the boys had made. Sarun first came across “Silly Fools” when he had gone to visit Bangkok. He had bought their CD and had always wanted to do a cover song of Silly Fools. Thus, “Chahanna Ma” was born. Reshna and Sarun wrote the lyrics for this one. During the recording phase of Chahanna Ma, Sarun was suffering from kidney stone. He was singing one of the vocals, when had to be rushed to the hospital and put on emergency.

TO AN ANGEL
It was the first song that Sarun had written in 1999. It took him several years to finish the composition. He began the writing process of this song in a friend’s shop at Freak Street, Kathmandu and finished it in Sydney.

UGLY
This not-at-all-ugly song was written by Sarun in Sydney. He testifies that he wrote this at work out of frustration when he failed in a subject during his Bachelor’s degree.

KHONNANIMO
It was written by Miya Arai in Sydney. Sarun and Miya first met each other in college and became friends from then on. She discovered Sarun’s inclination towards music and often heard him sing and strum some of his compositions on his guitar. When requested, she wrote the lyrics for one of Sarun’s tunes which apparently became Khonnanimo and later, as all of us know, Aaudai Jaadai.