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Devotional & Love Songs

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This is a diverse collection of Nusrat. It has the rise and fall of his Punjabi Lyrical Ballads as well as some of his best Urdu singles. Being a Qawwali Singer, I feel his qawwali numbers are far better than the ones he has sung in pure ghazal format. That's the main reason for my dislike of his Urdu Numbers.

1. Allah Hoo Allah Hoo - Fine. 5. Mast Nazroon Se Allah Bachhae - Beautiful, Romantic and Very Careful in Analyzing the Beauty and its effects :-) 6. Woh Hata Rahe Hain Pardah - Simply Lovely. I think this number holds a lot of power among his well sung Urdu Qawwalis and Ghazals. This is a very poetic piece and has his inner voice in it. 7. Yeh Jo Halka Saroor Hae - Another All Time Great Number. 8. Biba Sada Dil Morr De - Nice One. 9. Yaadan Vichhre Sajan Dian Aiyan - Recollecting the old lover. Well, obviously sad. 10. Sanson Ki Mala Pey - Very Poetic. Very Beautiful. Here he is expressing a lover's sentiments in words and narrating them point by point.

Great Selection.

Nusrat Fateh Ali has a commanding voice and booming sonic presence. the Music of Qawalli is often an acquired listening experience. While i cannot speak for the listeners who listen to this musical form without knowing the linguistic intricacy and beauty mentioned in Qawalli verses, i can speak for the ones that do know the language its mostly sung in.

Musically the soundscape is beautiful and full of range and pleasing to the ear, knowing the lyrics behind it however gives the listener a totally new , almost religious sense of experience to this music, which most people feel is a very trance like state often that Whirling dervishes go into.

However anyone can truly enjoy the bliss featured within Qawalli rhythms and melodies which often seem natural, resonating with the listener's mindsets. The Japanese have claimed to have said that God resides in the vocal chords of Nusrat. The range expressed herein might bring that statement to elevation. It is not for everyone though. Qawalli music often takes patience to grow into a listening experience

Once the rapture of the sounds have you, its hard to let go.

I have no words to express my opinion about this CD. Even if i don't understand many of the Urdu words, i still enjoy listining it at night. One of my friends from Pakistan gave me the cd to listen and now i think i'll buy this CD very soon.

The quality of the recordings on this CD are awesome. Especially for fans of older classical qawali where the recordings don't compare to the dynamic acoustic ranges in live Qawali.

The introduction of western string instruments blend nicely without being intrusive.

The dynamic range of this recording only adds to the splendor of the melodious mix of the poetry with the music.

This is especially true for fans who understand the words. The words coming through the vocals of Nusrat with the tabla and clapping rhythms pierce your emotions, uplifting and saddening, haunting and beautiful.

This is CD is a MUST-HAVE for fans of Qawali. This recording is an intercourse of east and west in its classical form.

One day while driving with some friends, one friend was surfing through the radio stations when I heard this most amazing voice. My heart leapt in my throat as I screamed at my friend who had moved on through the stations to go back, but it was too late. Who was this person??? I literally went crazy for days after trying to find out who this singer was. Finally, some music store clerk got who I was talking about and I bought the only CD available, Night Song. I listened to this CD every day and couldn't get enough. Every song on this CD had me.

To me, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan doesn't sing, he channels sound like a hollow bamboo in which that incredible music just flows through him from existence. Truly his voice is the voice of the divine. Sometimes it makes me cry as it touches something very deep in me.

While poets Jalaluddin Rumi and Kabir are the written voice of Sufism, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is the song of it. I've been doing Sufi whirling on and off for years and find that the essence of Sufism is deeply represented in Nusrat's music. I had not known of Qawwali music before hearing Nusrat, but I am familiar with Kirtan, which is a bit similar, and which I really like. So, of course I would fall in love with Qawwali music as both are devotional and follow centuries of spiritually driven musical tradition.

While I really love Night Song, my most favorite of Nusrat's is Devotional and Love Songs. This is mainly because when I hear him sing, I get so high that I need to move my body and express my bliss through dance or whirling. I love this CD because it's a concentration of his more traditional frenzied, hypnotic chanting type of song as opposed to the more western sound infused hybrids Night Song and Mustt Mustt. I totally loose myself in Nusrat's voice and the music's rhythmic beat and sometimes I don't even know how long I've been dancing or whirling. Shahen- Shah is similar to this one as well, but this CD just kind of hits me in a different way. And I absolutely love Allah Hoo, which is on this CD.

Even if you are not spiritually inclined, this music is precious just for the respect and reverence to life and love it conveys, even if you don't understand the words.

This CD contains a very good selection of Nusrat's studio recordings. You won't hear the harmonium, which is usually heard in the live recordings or in concerts, but the quality and variety on this CD are great for someone who is seeking exposure to traditional Nusrat.

Listen to Haq Ali Ali on this, and listen to it on something like Nusrat Live at Prince Albert Hall, you understand that there's no need to have the chorus echoing and all the voices in perfect sync, in fact that takes away from the passion of it, when it's almost discordant, that it demands something from God. This cd doesn't seem live, it seems cut and pasted and touched too much, and the string instrument, whether its a guitar or mandolin or whatever, it isn't common in nusrat and sometimes its okay, but mostly I dont care for it. It lacks the fullness, the brutality of real ecstatic quvalli, its like elevator quvalli or kennyg quvalli.
I was very disappointed with this album when I first got it, but now I like it some.

I've heard this album many times, and what can I say, It's called music. U just insert the CD and push play and u'r in heaven for 70 minutes!

From the opening song, this is a joyful album. Lots of clapping, singing, and instrumental support from the skinny men in the background.

This was a gift to my son-in-law. It was received quickly in time for Christmas and made him very happy.