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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Devotional Songs

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Label: Real World Records
Released: 1992
Time:
 45:21
Category: Folk
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.nusratforever.com
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Purchase date: 2008.07.10
Price in €: 4,99





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[1] Allah Hoo Allah Hoo (N.F.A.Khan) - 7:57
[2] Yaad-E-Nabi Gulshan Mehka (N.F.A.Khan) - 7:36
[3] Haq Ali Ali Haq (N.F.A.Khan) - 7:23
[4] Ali Maula Ali Maula Ali Dam Dam (N.F.A.Khan) - 7:44
[5] Mast Nazroon Se Allah Bachhae (N.F.A.Khan) - 6:21
[6] Ni Main Jogi De Naal (N.F.A.Khan/B.B.Shah) - 8:10

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Vocals, Tabla, Aarrangement

Majahid Mubarak Ali Khan - Nusrat Cousine and Senior Member of the Group
Faark Fateh Ali Khan - Nusrat young brother, Lead Singer, Harmonium
Mohammed Iqbal Naqbi - Chrous Singer, Secretary of the Group
Maqsood Hussain - Lead Singer
Rahmat Ali - 2nd Harmonium Player
Asad Ali - Chorus Singer
Dildar Hussain - Tabla
Ghulam Fareed - Chorus Singer
Kaukab Ali - Chorus Singer
Rahat Ali - Pupil Singer
Majawar Abbas - Mandolin, Guitar

Bari Watts - Engineer
Malcom Garret - Design, Art Direction
Sy-Jeng Cheng - Design, Art Direction
Garry Mouat - Series Identity
David Buckland - Photography of cover paintings
Ishida Masataka - Photography

Front cover detail from "Switch" by Russel Mills © 1990.

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1992 CD Real World RW MCD 2

Recorded at Fair Deal Studios, Midllesex.

Although the Kahn family had been developing a mastery of Qawwali (the singing of the devotional music of Islam) for over 600 years, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn originally had no intention of following the family tradition. It was a recurring dream--in which he was performing at a famous Muslim shrine atAjmer, India--that finally convinced Nusrat to take up the study. Astonishingly, his dream came true in 1979. While visiting the same temple as a pilgrim, he was invited inside tosing. Nusrat was the first Qawwal ever to receive this honour. Upon hearing Kahn's astonishingly elastic and superhuman voice, neither this story nor the artist's subsequent rise to international success seems unbelievable. DEVOTIONAL AND LOVE SONGS combines traditional religious songs with sensuous secular songs about love. Backed by a chorus of singersand accompanied by tabla, harmonium, and mandolin, Kahn's singing conveys ecstatic power on each track. He casts loops and nets into the ether as if he is trying to capture heaven. This music is as meditative, energetic, and deeply spiritual as one might expect. But its sheer melodicism and accessibility may surprise the uninitiated. An excellent example ofa rare, beautiful, and deservedly sacred music.



Recorded in the wake of the late Khan's triumphant performance at the 1985 WOMAD festival, this 10-track collection features the lighter, folkier side of the Pakistani classical music singer's repertoire. Accompanied by his nine-member "party" on acoustic guitar, mandolin, and a full complement of tabla and harmonium, Khan unleashes typically stunning vocal phrases marked by blinding speed, cutting tone, and unearthly ornamentation. The infectious "Yaad-E-Nabi Gulshan Mehka", with lyrics in praise of Muhammed, finds the qawwali singer at his most effervescent, while the ghazal (love song) "Mast Nazroon Se Allah Bachhae" features an insistent hand-clapped rhythm and the full Party chorus singing together in unison.

James Rotondi - Amazon.co.uk



The first thing you notice is the chunking guitar and mandolin that Majawar Abbas adds to Nusrat's classic blend of male vocals, harmonium, and tabla here. The strings add a folksy element to these six religious songs, making this 1988 session about as warm and cuddly as Nusrat's spiritually charged qawwali music gets. Shorter selections with more nods to pop music arranging give the music a different character than that found on more traditional records, while remaining well short of the reinventions found on Nusrat's famous crossover collaborations with Canadian guitarist Michael Brook and others. This set begins with a friendly rendition of "Allah Hoo Allah Hoo," which was always a crowd-pleaser in Nusrat's legendary live shows. "Haq Ali Ali Haq" begins like a flamenco song full of lyrical melancholy, but as its praise for Hazrat Ali, the fourth Caliph, gathers steam, the tempo rises, and the mood shifts to righteous resolve and the blooming ecstasy that is qawwali's trademark. A love song, called a ghazal, opens with strumming guitar work that seems to promise Celtic music, but before long, you're back in familiar qawwali territory. This tends to be the pattern, colorful intros that morph into traditional qawwali. The final track, "Ni Main Jogi De Naal," starts out sounding like Greek bouzouki music. Some tracks fade out in order to stay in or around eight minutes. This tends to keep the energy several notches below that found in the full-blown, ten-plus minute selections featured on other releases. Call this back porch Nusrat, something you can enjoy without being whisked straight to heaven.

Banning Eyre - All Music Guide
 

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