Word: fateh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...band looking for a new direction, but too comfortable and cautious to follow through on its vision." Instead, the band seems content to follow trails blazed by others. The spiritualized, bass-heavy 'Who You Are' is a solid number but it clearly owes a lot to Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, with whom Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder worked on the soundtrack to the film 'Dead Man Walking.' Other songs are even more derivative. The countrified garage rocker 'Smile' sounds like a Neil Young tune, right down to the harmonica solo; it's pleasant enough, but it lacks...
...FOREIGN FILM IS CAPTIVATING--say the Chinese drama Raise the Red Lantern--within a few minutes the subtitles melt away. One forgets that the characters are speaking a different language, and the message of the film, its plot, its humor, come through. So too with music. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is a huge star in his native Pakistan; but although he speaks no English, and his songs are often in Urdu, he has built a following of hipster fans in the U.S. Khan is a singer of qawwali--Sufi Muslim religious music, which, like gospel, seeks to bring listeners closer...