Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Mustt Mustt

'...one of the great East-West fusion releases...a beguiling mixture of electronics, harmoniums and tabla, Brazilian percussion, Guo Yue's Chinese flute, guitar and the master's soaring vocals.'

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is today acknowledged as the greatest modern master of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis. Having popularised this beautiful and inspirational music beyond Muslim peoples to a worldwide audience, with this album he explored for the first time a whole new musical territory.

In the making of 'Mustt Mustt', Nusrat embarked upon an exploration of various Western styles and rhythms, to which he brought his own Asian approach. The Pakistani musicians from Nusrat's Party are accompanied by guitarist Robert Ahwai (West Indies), bassist Darryl Johnson (USA) and percussionist James Pinker (New Zealand). Produced by Michael Brook, who also plays guitar, the album is a unique meeting of international talent.

The late, great Pakistani Qawwali singer's first collaboration with producer/guitarist Michael Brook took the passionate, gymnastic tenor out of tradition and into trip-hop nation. Recorded at Peter Gabriel's expansive Real World Studios, the album combines ethnic percussion, programmed beats (some by Gabriel himself), Brook's atmospheric and infinite guitar swells, and loop-based motifs with Khan's complex, ornamented vocal delivery and devotional lyrics. On the later Night Song, Brook and Khan perfected their cross-cultural dialogue, though Mustt, with its fiery vocal runs and funky, ethereal production, has become an important touchstone in the ethno-techno movement that includes Transglobal Underground and Loop Guru. --James Rotondi

* Mustt Mustt
* Nothing Without You (Tery Bina)
* Tracery
* The Game
* Taa Deem
* Sea Of Vapours
* Fault Lines
* Tana Dery Na
* Shadow
* Avenue
* Mustt Mustt

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