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[Read More]Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan helped spread Qawwali, a form of Sufi devotional music, around the world.
The term " first contact" is often used when a new life-form is discovered in Alien Movies. This Concert performance of NFAK was nothing less than " The First Contact" of the french audience present in the crowd with Music of “Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan”. When coming out of the concert, most of them felt deeply moved or even transported to different reality (as they themselves reported), the last two hours were imprinted on their lives forever….
Before I post the audio and video links to this performance, lets first talk about this concert in particular and why I feel that it’s best ever. First, NFAK was in his best improvisation mood that day, placed in front of a almost french crowd, who he knew wouldn’t understand a word he utters, sargams and fireworks were the best he could do, and it lead to some of the best improvisations ever.
[Read More]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.
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It was a late Friday afternoon in 1990 when I got a call at the Los Angeles Times office inviting me to see a show by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan that evening. The qawwali master was performing in, of all places, a conference room at the LAX Airport Hilton, headlining a benefit to help build a cancer hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, hosted by that nation’s cricket hero Imran Khan.
[Read More]How Shekhar Kapoor Prepares for Directing a scene? Well, he panics .. and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s Music hovers in his mind, increasing the chaos, and the output is Brilliant Creativity.
“The Power of not knowing drives him.. I strongly believe that the same power used to drive Nusrat too”
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