Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Mustt Mustt

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (born October 13, 1948, died August 16, 1997), was a Pakistani musician, primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis (a mystical tradition within Islam). He featured in Time magazine's 2006 list of 'Asian Heroes'
Traditionally, Qawwali has been a family business. Nusrat's family has an unbroken tradition of performing qawwali for the last 600 years. Among other honorary titles bestowed upon him, Nusrat was called Shahenshah-e-Qawwali, meaning The Emperor of Qawwali
Initially, Nusrat's father did not want him to enter the family business. He had his heart set on Nusrat choosing a more respectable career path by becoming a doctor or an engineer, because he felt Qawwals had a low social status. However, Nusrat showed such an aptitude for and interest in Qawwali that his father finally relented and started to train him in the art. At first, he was taught to play tabla, playing alongside his father. He then learnt Raag Vidya and bolbandish. Once he had mastered such arts, he was taught to sing within the classical framework of khayal in the Qawwal Bachchon Gharana and learnt dhrupad from the Dagar family. This training was left incomplete when Fateh Ali Khan died in 1964, while Nusrat was still in school. However, the training was continued by Nusrat's paternal uncles, Mubarak Ali Khan and Salamat Ali Khan.

Mustt Mustt is the first Qawwali fusion album of singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and guitarist and record producer Michael Brook. It was released in 1990 on Peter Gabriel 's Real World Records label.. Michael’s first collaboration became an early benchmark of the then-burgeoning world music genre; the sessions for Mustt Mustt found Brook adopting new approaches to studio recording. Putting Michael together with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the foremost exponent of the Pakistani devotional singing known as qawwal, was initially the idea of Peter Gabriel, at whose Real World studio facility the sessions took place. With David Bottrill engineering, Michael embarked on an intensive four day session with Nusrat, the pair learning how to collaborate in spite of each man’s inability to speak the other’s language

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan-Mustt Mustt

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