Track Listing

1. Mustt Mustt (Lost In His Work)
2. Nothing Without You (Tery Bina)
3. Tracery
4. The Game
5. Taa Deem
6. Sea Of Vapours
7. Fault Lines
8. Tana Dery Na
9. Shadow
10. Avenue
11. Mustt Mustt (Massive Attack Remix)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #90942 in Music
• Released on: 1993-03-26
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
The late, great Pakistani Qawwali 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. --James Rotondi

Customer Reviews

Qawwali Fever!
It was the late, great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan who first popularized the art of qawwali music in the West. A form of devotional Sufi music from Pakistan, qawwali is known for it's passion and intensity. This album, which is as good a starting point as any in NFAK's vast corpus of works, marked his first collaboration with Michael Brook and was recorded in studio. Although NFAK's passionate vocals take center stage, there is some creative use of remixing and editing, which would become more prominent later on 'Night Song.' Tracks like the ethereal 'Sea of Vapours,' 'Teri Bina,' and the ever iconic title song 'Mustt Mustt' (perhaps his single most well known song; literally meaning intoxication) are as powerful and beautiful today as they were when NFAK was alive. Perhaps appropriately enough, the final track on this CD is a remix of 'Mustt Mustt' by Massive Attack, foreshadowing the massive popularity of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and other qawwali singers in the "Asian Underground." But the song doesn't need any remix to bring out a sense of ecstasy and awe at the vastness of the Divine. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan represented the art of Muslim devotional singing more so than any other artist of our lifetime, and this CD is as good a starting point as any. Just listening to it (and you probably HAVE heard NFAK without knowing it) will make you want to seek out more of his work, even without knowing Urdu, Panjabi or Persian. His voice awakens an echo of the Divine in all of us...

give this album a break
While I agree that Nusrat unproduced in the raw is the way he was meant to be heard, and anyone who can pick up videos of him performing in Birmingham England at some local center, will be amazed. But this album has its brilliant moments. I think noone can own music and sound, and we love music because we love experimentation and allow artists to interpret and reinterpret styles. I think anyone who thinks that all the music that ever will be has been written , and that everything else is derivative misses the point of creativity. I mean if musicians can come together, so can people of different nations come together in other ways. Artists allow us to bring cultures together, and unite instead of divide. I know thats alot to place on one album, but I believe in pure qawalli and I believe in this blend as well, both are art. So Cheers to the makers of this. You will not be dissapointed.

The best album to come out of the east...


Fulfilling and wonderfully artistic. will be playing at my b&b at the entrance sound... here at the wonderful black sand beach in hawaii...it is worth buying... peace