Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - The Last Prophet (2015)
BAND/ARTIST: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Title: The Last Prophet
- Year Of Release: 1994; 2016
- Label: Real World Records
- Genre: World, Indian classical
- Quality: FLAC lossless
- Total Time: 1:05:32
- Total Size: 372 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Qawwali is the devotional music of Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam, which originated in the tenth century in what is present-day Iran. It began with the foundation of the Christi order of Sufis by followers of the Khwaji (‘master’) Abu Ishak Christi. Two hundred years later Qwwali travelled with the Sufis to India. Qawwali was spread by Khwaji Mueen-Ud-Din Christi converting 9 million people to Islam throughout the Sub-continent. The word ‘sufi’ means ‘wearer of wool’ and originally it designed a very specific religious sect. They called themselves ‘faqara’ meaning ‘poor’ (in spirit). ‘Faqara’ is the plural of ‘faqir’ (in Persian, ‘darvish’) from which the English ‘dervish is derived. The whirling Sufi dances of Turkey are known as the dervishes —the physical equivalent of qawwali’s spiralling vocals.
Qawwali singers at all levels perform a sophisticated and ecstatic form of devotion. The word ‘qawwali’ means literally ‘utterance’ and the ‘qawwal’ meaning a wise or philosophical utterance, is the voice or mouthpiece of divine power. The strength of the qawwal is his power to convey a mystic religious message by capturing the audience and heightening their consciousness in order to make them more receptive to the content of the message. The aim of transporting the audience to another state of mind (‘hal’) is to bring them to a level of enlightenment or inner knowledge (‘marifat’). Musically there is a tension between the rhythmical repetition of repeated lines of the chorus and the sudden, spontaneously improvised passages. Traditional and well-known themes are given new significance as the qawwal plays with the meanings of words and implies new metaphors, thus revealing the message in a fresh context. Sometimes a singer repeats a phrase or sentence, indicating not only the obvious and then the hidden context, but repeats it over and over again until all meaning is exhausted and, mantra-like, it attains a pureity of form that transcends linguistic barriers. https://realworldrecords.com/releases/the-last-prophet/
Tracklist:
01. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Maki Madni (17:20)
02. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Sahib Teri Bandi (12:27)
03. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Ganj: E: Shakar (22:42)
04. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Sochan Dongian (13:03)
Qawwali singers at all levels perform a sophisticated and ecstatic form of devotion. The word ‘qawwali’ means literally ‘utterance’ and the ‘qawwal’ meaning a wise or philosophical utterance, is the voice or mouthpiece of divine power. The strength of the qawwal is his power to convey a mystic religious message by capturing the audience and heightening their consciousness in order to make them more receptive to the content of the message. The aim of transporting the audience to another state of mind (‘hal’) is to bring them to a level of enlightenment or inner knowledge (‘marifat’). Musically there is a tension between the rhythmical repetition of repeated lines of the chorus and the sudden, spontaneously improvised passages. Traditional and well-known themes are given new significance as the qawwal plays with the meanings of words and implies new metaphors, thus revealing the message in a fresh context. Sometimes a singer repeats a phrase or sentence, indicating not only the obvious and then the hidden context, but repeats it over and over again until all meaning is exhausted and, mantra-like, it attains a pureity of form that transcends linguistic barriers. https://realworldrecords.com/releases/the-last-prophet/
Tracklist:
01. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Maki Madni (17:20)
02. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Sahib Teri Bandi (12:27)
03. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Ganj: E: Shakar (22:42)
04. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Sochan Dongian (13:03)
Classical | World | Indian / भारतीय संगीत | FLAC / APE
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