Genres Alternative rock Website mirwebsite.com Genre Alternative rock | Associated acts Knight, Asif Illyas Active until 2010 | |
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Years active 1998 (1998)-2010 (2010)--> Members Adam Dowling
Asif Illyas
Shehab Illyas Past members Chis Church, Julian Marentette Origin Halifax Regional Municipality, Canada Albums The Acoustic Record, What's Wrong With Being Sexy? Record labels DistroKid, Cadence Music, East West Records Similar Alice, Mvstermind, Marco Armani, Sutan Amrull Profiles | ||
Mir is a Canadian alternative rock music group formed in 1998 in Halifax. Their projects have been released in Canada and Europe, and their 2006 itinerary included 4 tours in Germany after being signed to Silversonic Records in Germany. In 2004 MIR was signed to East West Warner Records for 2 years and toured extensively in Germany playing large festivals including Rock em Ring and Rockn em Park in 2005.
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Asif Illyas is the band's lead vocalist, guitarist and pianist. His brother Shehab Illyas is the bassist and vocalist, and Adam Dowling is drummer and a second vocalist.
In 2008, the band was nominated at the East Coast Music Awards for Rock/Group of the Year and Songwriter of the Year. Mir also received over thirty various ECMA nominations in previous years.
Asif Illyas is released a solo project tiltled Synesthesia on April 17th 2013 in Canada and bassist Shehab Illyas also has recorded a solo project under the pseudonym Knight titled "Top of the world" that was accompanied by a 30min a short with the same titled that he wrote and directed in year 2014
Discography
The band's song "State of Emergency" was featured on the 2002 compilation The Great Stupa, which included songs from Sting, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and others.
Songs
Baarish2017
Aman2016
Animal InstinctS/T ยท 2009