Word: qawwali
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...northern India and Pakistan to a global stage, becoming one of the superstars of world music; after suffering cardiac arrest during a trip to Britain to seek medical treatment for chronic liver and weight problems; in London. For 600 years, Khan's family had been singers in the qawwali tradition, a style that built layer upon layer of increasingly intense music that demanded ferocious vocal control and culminated in whirling peaks of ecstasy. Khan not only revived qawwali's popularity in his native Pakistan but also, after being lured into recording the sound track for The Last Temptation of Christ...
...Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook Night Song (Real World/Caroline). Khan, a huge star in his native Pakistan, is a singer of qawwali--Sufi religious music that, like gospel, seeks to bring listeners closer to God through ecstatic vocals and rhythms. Here, with Canadian producer-guitarist Michael Brook, Khan sings of earthly love; the spiraling, urgent songs are mostly in Urdu, but Khan's passion and purpose need no translation...
...performances also included a tribute to South Asian Music titled "Fusion of East and West" and traditional folk songs such as Bhajan, Qawwali and Urdu songs...
...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 to God through ecstatic vocals and rhythms. Some American rock stars, perhaps seeking to fill a spiritual void in their own music, have gravitated to Khan. Eddie Vedder, leader of the prickly rock band Pearl Jam, sings two elegiac...
...Real World/Caroline) takes the singer in a more worldly direction. Collaborating with Canadian producer-guitarist Michael Brook, Khan ventures into songs about earthly rather than religious love. On the song My Heart, My Life, he also experiments with phrasing that is more direct than the ethereal style of his qawwali work. On Crest, he reels off spiraling vocals over a beat that is almost funky. Says Khan: "I am trying to give my voice greater range." Purists may not like the fact that he's recorded such brazenly entertaining secular songs. No matter. Get out your popcorn. The subtitles have...