Ustad Saami - God Is Not a Terrorist (2019)
BAND/ARTIST: Ustad Saami
- Title: God Is Not a Terrorist
- Year Of Release: 2018
- Label: Glitterbeat Records
- Genre: World, Ethnic, Folk, Pakistan
- Quality: MP3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+.cue+.log) & booklet
- Total Time: 46:50 min
- Total Size: 108; 354 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Hypnotic, unvarnished recordings by one of Pakistan's most revered and iconic classical singers. The roots of Saami's music go back to the 13th century - but it's message is
contemporary and universal: 'to sing is to listen.' Produced by GRAMMY Award winner Ian Brennan. Vol.5 of Glitterbeat's acclaimed Hidden Musics series.
75-year-old, Ustad Saami risks his life daily in Pakistan to keep alive his microtonal, pre-Islamic, multilingual (Farsi, Sanskrit, Hindi, the ancient and dead language of Vedic, gibberish, Arabic, and Urdu) music. Handed down by his ancestors for over a
thousand years, he is 'the only practitioner of Surti left in the world' and when he passes, this music will die with him as well. Extremists resent his work as they do anything else pre-dating Muhammad. Master
Ustad Naseeruddin Saami has spent his entire life mastering the nuances of every given note. 'To sing is to listen.' These are the words of the master. The translation of his own
last name, Saami, even means 'to hear.' The master shapes the notes with his hands as he sings like conducting a Theremin. Most master's now hide their knowledge, possessively passing their skills down
through family only. Subsequently, traditions have died and wither. Master Saami's mission is to share his knowledge with the world, so that the music may live on freely.
For him, everything centers on one note. From that, all else grows and music is seen as a sixth sense for people to better communicate with each other. With great precision, Saami utilizes 49-notes versus the West's mere seven. The scale was
founded by a mix-raced royal whose lifelong endeavor was to make peace with duality through art. This predecessor of Qawwali music is called Khayál, the Arabic word for 'imagination' and in it the melody carries the meaning. The lyrics are
almost incidental during these call-and-responses. 'With the musician's tongues reddened and teeth devastated from chewing Paan, we recorded all night long taking only a short break for a meal. In the morning
after the sun had come up, the younger players were understandably collapsing from exhaustion. The master, though, displayed markedly more energy than when we had begun the night before. He urged the others to keep going, but was
unsuccessful. His power proved too much for them to keep up with'. - Ian Brennan
Tracklist:
3:17 | 01. Ustad Saami - God Is
5:30 | 02. Ustad Saami - My Beloved Is on the Way
10:29 | 03. Ustad Saami - Twilight
1:09 | 04. Ustad Saami - Hymn
7:32 | 05. Ustad Saami - War Song
18:53 | 06. Ustad Saami - Longing
contemporary and universal: 'to sing is to listen.' Produced by GRAMMY Award winner Ian Brennan. Vol.5 of Glitterbeat's acclaimed Hidden Musics series.
75-year-old, Ustad Saami risks his life daily in Pakistan to keep alive his microtonal, pre-Islamic, multilingual (Farsi, Sanskrit, Hindi, the ancient and dead language of Vedic, gibberish, Arabic, and Urdu) music. Handed down by his ancestors for over a
thousand years, he is 'the only practitioner of Surti left in the world' and when he passes, this music will die with him as well. Extremists resent his work as they do anything else pre-dating Muhammad. Master
Ustad Naseeruddin Saami has spent his entire life mastering the nuances of every given note. 'To sing is to listen.' These are the words of the master. The translation of his own
last name, Saami, even means 'to hear.' The master shapes the notes with his hands as he sings like conducting a Theremin. Most master's now hide their knowledge, possessively passing their skills down
through family only. Subsequently, traditions have died and wither. Master Saami's mission is to share his knowledge with the world, so that the music may live on freely.
For him, everything centers on one note. From that, all else grows and music is seen as a sixth sense for people to better communicate with each other. With great precision, Saami utilizes 49-notes versus the West's mere seven. The scale was
founded by a mix-raced royal whose lifelong endeavor was to make peace with duality through art. This predecessor of Qawwali music is called Khayál, the Arabic word for 'imagination' and in it the melody carries the meaning. The lyrics are
almost incidental during these call-and-responses. 'With the musician's tongues reddened and teeth devastated from chewing Paan, we recorded all night long taking only a short break for a meal. In the morning
after the sun had come up, the younger players were understandably collapsing from exhaustion. The master, though, displayed markedly more energy than when we had begun the night before. He urged the others to keep going, but was
unsuccessful. His power proved too much for them to keep up with'. - Ian Brennan
Tracklist:
3:17 | 01. Ustad Saami - God Is
5:30 | 02. Ustad Saami - My Beloved Is on the Way
10:29 | 03. Ustad Saami - Twilight
1:09 | 04. Ustad Saami - Hymn
7:32 | 05. Ustad Saami - War Song
18:53 | 06. Ustad Saami - Longing
Year 2019 | World | Ethnic | Mp3 | CD-Rip
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