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Live at Royal Albert Hall

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Out of all the music I've ever heard - this is some of the most amazing. The last track(Haq Ali Ali) is actually out of this world! I've only heard a few of Nusrat's recordings, but this one has something special. His voice seems limitless here.

Haq Ali Ali takes up a whole side, he flips it and goes classical for some time, also the back and forth leading to the crescendo and then the chorus is truly amazing. Qwaali becomes about the sound, words are repeated in song until they lose their outward meaning and a deeper truth is revealed. This recording is filled with an amazing energy that perhaps could not be caught in any studio. There are instances of microphone feedback which only show the trance that the musicians got into, their total oblivion. This tape can bring you to tears before you know it. This is devotional music which can be felt through the cassette, a devotion to the mysteries and the sadness and the lack of comprehension of life, a devotion to God and to brotherhood, and it can be felt without any knowledge of Urdu.