Without doubt the most important qawwal is Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party — Party is a generic term for a qawwali ensemble but is also used in Sikhism and to describe some classical music ensembles, for example, shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan & Party. Dubbed Shahen-Shah-e-Qawwali (the ...
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan生於回曆1368(西元1948)年,卒於回曆1418(西元1997)年,享寿49岁的巴基斯坦旁遮普歌唱家,是当代最伟大的Qawwali宗师(Pandit);回教歌坛中的帕华洛帝。Qawwali是回教苏非(神秘教派)信徒独创的吟唱歌乐,回教敬拜仪式中向来排斥音乐,苏非派却是其中的异数。自十三世纪以来,便以Tabla、Dhaolak、Naal手...
With a Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan concert, you’d be sitting on the ground, wrapped up in the interplay between the chorus, musicians and the big man at the front of his group. There was an intricate melody, tablas and clapping adding a rhythmic complexity and the singers, sometimes i...