“When I first saw the record sleeve I thought to myself: is this gonna be good, or so-bad-it’s-good?” she laughs. Founder Arshia Haq recalls stumbling upon it in a second-hand record store on New York’s Lower East Side. Discostan, a radio show and club space dedicated to celebrating the music of a region they term as Swana (south and west Asia and north Africa), is reissuing the album. Now, 37 years on from its release and instant obscurity, Disco Se Aagay is finally re-emerging.
