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| Nusrat
Fateh Ali Khan |
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Nusrat
Fateh Ali Khan is regarded as one of the great Qawwali voices
of our time. Qawwli style derives from Pakistan and serves a
religious purpose primarily, trance music that endlessly repeats
the name of God. It
is the vocal expression of Sufism, the mystical sect of Islam
that embraces music as a means of becoming one with the Divine.
Khan was first brought before the public by Peter Gabriel's
WOMAD Foundation ( World of Music, Art and Dance ) in 1984.
Khan stirred audience into rapture with the intensity of his
singing, and has gained a large following around the world.
Sadly, Nusrat
Fateh Ali Khan passed away in August of 1997.
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remixed songs of Nusrat) |
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| Abida
Parveen |
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| Abida
Parveen is Pakistan's most famous female singer, excelling in
both the slower Ghazals or romantic songs, to fever-pitched
Qawwali, the devotional music of Sufism. She was born in 1957
in Larkana, Pakistan, and has been performing for over twenty
years. Her expressive style and three-octave vocal range have
led critics to dub her the "Oum Kulthoum of Pakistan". |
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| Michael
Stearns & Viji Subramaniam |
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| Michael
Stearns is a keyboard player/synthesist/producer, who here gives
an interesting treatment to a sixteenth century classical Indian
songform, with the late Indian singer Viji Subramaniam. The
song, a composition by the Indian mystic Saint Mira Bhai, who
was one of the greatest devotees of the god Krishna, is sung
with great depth and subtlety and Stearns' keyboard treatment
sensitively complements her voice. |
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