[caption id=“attachment_1208” align=“alignleft” width=“147”] Pierre Alain Baud[/caption]

Pierre Alain Baud is the author of NFAK Biography : Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, le messager du qawwali (2008)..

Here is a french program about NFAK’s Legacy

The Program Features a very awesome version of “Nee Mai Jana” and “Mustt Mustt”

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[caption id=“attachment_1209” align=“aligncenter” width=“167”] Le Messenger Du Qawaali[/caption]

What Makes Nusrat’s music great ? Organic compositions, Hypnotic Improvizations and ofcours the Kalams of great Sufi’s…

They are more than just melodies… they are the answers to biggest of your problems, ways through your scariest fears and the conduits to your redemption

[caption id=“attachment_1100” align=“alignleft” width=“141”] Ab’ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrow[/caption]

Amir Khusrow once said ’ Music is the fire that burns heart and soul.’ In the 20th century Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was the carrier of that fire

Amir Khusrow was not just the inventor of Many forms of music including Qawwali, but also a true philosopher and one of the greatest poets ever. NFAK started his musical journey in 1975 with an Amir Khusro’s ghazal in Jashn-e-bahara festival pakistan. Many great Pakistani singers heard NFAK there and showed lot of appreciation and love, which was the biggest motivation point for him ever, he was also given 500 rupees by a singer which used to be a great deal of money in those days. NFAK’s performance at Amir Khusro’s 700th anniversary was nothing less than special, it was this day when he was titled " Khusrau- e- Sani"  meaning Equivalent to Khusrow . He later went on to sing many of Khusro’s poems with great compositions making them a forever saga. Though NFAK is forever in-debt to Khusrow for his poems and invention of Qawwali music, Khusrow himself remains in-debt to NFAK for keeping his poems alive for ever. What follows are some great NFAK-Khusrow tracks

[caption id=“attachment_1101” align=“aligncenter” width=“440”] NFAK Performing At 700th Anniversary Of Amir Khusraow[/caption]

A few Nusrat-Khusrow Tracks:

1. Man Kunto Maula (Tokyo,1987)

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan performing a funky version of All time Divine “Allah Hoo” at Womadelaide (WOMAD at Adelaide (Australia) ). We thank, kallashah once again for this gift..

Rest of the Concert can be found here

قداست موسیقی

ای موسیقی

ای اهتزاز نغمه های بر خاسته از جهانهای دور

ای آه فرشتگان که از دل ما بر می خیزد

هنگامی که کلمات از بیان باز می مانند ،

و هنگامی که یکدیگر را در آغوش گرفتن

و اشارات چشم و ابرو

و اشکها

از بیان باز می مانند ،

هنگامی که دلهای بی زبان ما

در پشت میله های آهنین سینه هایمان

تنها و بی کس، لال می مانند،

در آن هنگام است ،ای موسیقی،

که تنها تو می توانی آدمیان را در سیاه چالشان با هم دمساز کنی

و تنها تو می توانی آه های آدمیان را از پهنه های دور گرد آوری و به گوش یکدیگر برسانی.

ژان پل

نظامی در خسرو شیرین آنجا که شیرین سخنان خود را به نکیسا می گوید تا با چنگ خویش به گوش خسرو

برساند در یک جا ناگهان آهی می کشد و به نکیسا می گوید: این آه را برایش بفرست، این آه را برایش بنواز.

حسین الهی قمشه ای

زمستان 1391

Courtesy: NPR

[audio:http://nusratonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nusrat-voice-of-pakistan.mp3] Click Here To Download

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan helped spread Qawwali, a form of Sufi devotional music, around the world.

JIM WASHBURN | THE TIMES

Unlike many popular singers who have wildly animated styles, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan performs seated, as implacably planted on the stage floor as a bean-bag chair. But though he may be rooted to the spot physically, the Pakistani singer’s voice launches into incredible, propulsive flights of melismatic abandon as he strains to embody the content of his songs, and his hands and arms often gesticulate and fly with the emotion of his singing.