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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0077778656128 Label: Real World Manufacturer: Real World Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Real World Release Date: October 26, 1992 Studio: Real World Sales Rank: 5027
Amazon.co.uk Review: Recorded in the wake of the late Khan's triumphant performance at the 1985 WOMAD festival, this 10-track collection features the lighter, folkier side of the Pakistani classical music singer's repertoire. Accompanied by his nine-member "party" on acoustic guitar, mandolin, and a full complement of tabla and harmonium, Khan unleashes typically stunning vocal phrases marked by blinding speed, cutting tone, and unearthly ornamentation. The infectious "Yaad-E-Nabi Gulshan Mehka", with lyrics in praise of Muhammed, finds the qawwali singer at his most effervescent, while the ghazal (love song) "Mast Nazroon Se Allah Bachhae" features an insistent hand-clapped rhythm and the full Party chorus singing together in unison. --James Rotondi
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Purely Devotional & Awe-inspiring Qawwali Collection!
Around Christmas 1998, I purchased this my fifth CD collection by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. I had heard most of the tracks on an audio-cassette around early & mid nineteen nineties. Listening to them again, was awe-inspiring with the "Mast Nazroon Se Allah Bachae" roughly meaning: 'God protect me from my over-engrossing eyes'. This was a brilliant expressive ghazal that hits home the beauty of love in spite of pain of separation - which are all intractably interlinked. The other amazing track and ... Read More
Rating: - Words fail me .........
If you would like to truly experience the transcendent power of rythm, harmony and the human voice, and to explore some of the deeper recesses of the human spirit at the same time, then you really MUST listen to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and his group.
I first experienced Nusrat some 10 years or so ago on Channel 4 while late-night channel surfing. In an instant I was rooted to my chair, my remote-control hand frozen in mid-air. NEVER had I heard anything so utterly and literally entrancing. ... Read More
Rating: - Asian music for the uninitiated
Nusrat is a very fine artiste.You don't have to be either Pakistani or Muslim to appreciate his music. That is the bearing of a superstar - transcend all barriers. Nusrat does that effortlessly with this album. Allah Bachaee really is a must listen, and Ali Haq is a close second followed by Ali Maula. Even the musical ensemble, complete with tabla, harmonium and mandolin is a joy to listen. A "Time" article once mentioned a flattering article about the man himself. It wasn't flattering at all - it was simply ... Read More
Rating: - Allah hoo allah hoo
You don't own the best song Nusrat ever recorded until you own a copy of him singing Allah hoo allah hoo. Uplifting, joyous, life affirming, and I haven't really got a clue what he's singing about. What a voice. Totally inspiring.
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