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Through his music, he embraced spirituality and expressed devotion to God with unparalleled passion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuring his illustrious career spanning several decades, Nusrat collaborated with numerous renowned musicians from various genres including Bollywood soundtracks. He received international acclaim for his contributions to music and was honored with prestigious awards such as the UNESCO Music Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mustt-mustt","title":"Mustt Mustt","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe late, great Pakistani Gawwali singer's first collaboration with producer guitarist Michael Brook took the passionate, gymnastic tenor out of tradition and into trip-hop nation. Recorded at Peter Gabriel's expansive Real World studios, the album combines ethnic percussion, programmed beats (some by gabriel himself), Brook's atmospheric and infinite guitar swells, and loop-based motifs with Khan's complex, ornamented vocal delivery and devotional lyrics. On the later night song, Brook and Khan perfected their cross-cultural dialogue, though Mustt, with its fiery vocal runs and funky, ethereal production, has become an important touchstone in the ethno-techno movement that includes Transglobal Underground and Loop Guru.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - 180 Gram Vinyl with Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Real World","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50410458612043,"sku":"1011047","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50410458906955,"sku":"351619","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/57300aa5-f3e3-4aae-b244-695966976389_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726641339"},{"product_id":"chain-of-light","title":"Chain of Light","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt all starts with the voice. At turns heavy and hulkingly powerful, yet agile and pointedly precise, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s vocal not only embodies the tradition of the Sufi qawwali but it is the emotive essence of singing itself. Descended from a 600-year-old lineage of qawwali singers, Nusrat’s voice has been singularly responsible for spreading the devotional music of Sufism to the world, ever since he became the leader of his family’s musical group in 1971. It is a formidable heritage for an ancient song. Originating in 10th Century Iran, qawwali is the music of Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam. Characterised by states of musical ecstasy and sophistication, qawwali singers are the mouthpiece of divine power, tasked with capturing the audience’s attention and heightening their consciousness to receive a spiritual message. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChain of Light\u003c\/i\u003e is an album of previously unheard recordings of the singer and his qawwal party made at Real World Studios in 1990, whilst he was at the height of his vocal capabilities. Carefully restored from the original analogue tapes, this ‘lost album’ of traditional qawwals includes a pristine recording of the much-loved classic ‘Ya Allah Ya Rehman’, as well the only known performance of ‘Ya Gaus Ya Meeran’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s voice is universally recognised as one of the greatest in musical history and he was key in bringing the Qawwali music tradition to the Western world. Khan’s legacy has enraptured millions across the globe with his magnificent and haunting voice. In his lifetime he collaborated with many Western musicians, including Peter Gabriel, Eddie Vedder and Michael Brook. 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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is one of the key artists on Real World Records and certainly one of the most influential. His voice is universally recognised as one of the greats in musical history and he was key in bringing the Qawwali music tradition—a form of Sufi devotional music popular in South Asia—to the Western world. In his lifetime, Khan collaborated with many Western musicians, including Peter Gabriel, Eddie Vedder and Michael Brook. His vocals appeared on soundtracks to films directed by Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone and Tim Robbins. The foremost reason for his popularity is inventiveness—an ability to bring together separate traditions. To the popular Qawwali (devotional Sufi) form he has blended elements of the highly classical vocal tradition known as Khal (Persian for imagination). In this way he has created a wholly original fusion. More importantly perhaps he also draws on a range of lyrical material. It is as though he is continually both forgetting and reliving the six centuries of his family’s musical experience in a quest to find new and ever more daring paths to the sublime, carrying both eastern and western audiences to that realm known to the Sufis as Isshq— the state where earthly passion and divine love are reconciled.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Real World","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50459372126539,"sku":"1139190","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/eaa4dce6-87bd-47dc-adfd-3cc2ccb39f10_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727221047"},{"product_id":"qawwal-and-party-shahen-shah","title":"Qawwal and Party - Shahen Shah","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong Real World's most emblematic artists, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was known as Shahen-Shah-e-Qawwali: The Brightest Shining Star in Qawwali. Each vocal performance on this record is utterly captivating. 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