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The Sufi mysticism of Islam speaks a message of enlightenment and love, often expressed through poetry and music. Spreading through the Indian subcontinent from northern Persia in the 12th century, wandering dervishes of the Chisti order would turn up in a village, playing rousing airs on drum and flute while spinning tales and legends. Song was used to induce ecstatic states during formal devotional rituals - hence the astonishing vocal tradition known today as qawwali. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was without question the most brilliantly gifted qawwal of our time. He made this recording in his native Pakistan shortly before his untimely death in 1997. Retrieved from his family archive and mixed at Real World Studios, it is a radiant gift - a document of pure poetical beauty. |
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