Nusrat Was My Elvis ( featuring Amitabh Bachchan & Peter Gabriel)

nusrat live radio WNYC New SoundsNusrat was my Elvis! takes an in depth and historians take on Emergence, International impact & Legacy of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The programme features interviews of Celebrity Fans such as Amitabh Bachchan, Peter Gabriel & many prominent music personalities and taking about cultural impact of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on Pakistan & Asians. You will get to listen one of the first recorded Qawwali’s of NFAK & excerpts of some of his greatest entrancing tracks. The program was received by high praise in music journals…

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How to Be a World Music Star – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

What it took for NFAK to become a world music superstar. Find out in a wonderful documentary piece released last year with unseen pics,footage and interviews plus a beautiful description by Michael Brook (who now looks very old, imagine how NFAK would have looked like now….)…

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Nusrat , B&W and yet filled with infinite colours

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जाने जायेंगे इसी नामो निशान से हम – A tribute from Saurabh Sharma

nusrat charcoal painting by sourabh

Nusrat’s charcoal painting by sourabh

 

NFAK Featured Fan Tribute: Sourabh Sharma

गुलाम हैं हम उनके , उनकी गुलामी पर नाज़ है
जाने जायेंगे इसी नामो निशान से हम…………

I was listening to ustad ji one night and don’t know how i wrote this lines,i’ve never shared these lines with anyone before………

I like his Raw Music,
The Raw Voice,
The Bass Of Qawalli,
Continuous Repetitions,
Rhythm,
Clapping,
Flawless Lyrics,
The Devotional Essence ..
The Tap Of Tabla,
Soothing Sound Of Harmoniums,
The Raags ,The Amazing Tunes…

I am Listening The Same qawalli From Years,
Yet Its New For Me everytime…
I Can Listen to the same one  For Years…
Lyrics Of Thousand Of qawwalis/ghazals hover In My Mind.
and there Is Only One Name
On My Playlist,On My Mind,On My Heart…

I am Down To Earth , yet Above The World.
Because I am Devotee Of Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan…
The Owner Of Most Beautiful Voice On Earth  . . .

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Rhythm Planet – The Great World Music Makers ” Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan”

Tom SchnabelTom Schnabel presents the career and journey overview of the greatest musicians of his time. Here is what he had on NFAK in his book “Rhythm Planet: The Great World Music Makers”. Continue reading

Happy Birthday Nusrat – 13th October is blessed for eternity

happy birthday nusrat 2013  It’s his 65th Birthday, a day blessed for eternity..

Yesterday millions of us in India sat breathless under threat of a super-cyclone and I feared why it had to be 13th October, I never wanted to remember this day as one which devastated Indian lives…. the worst is over and the loss of life was almost null, miraculous, amazing right … this day remained blessed as it was supposed to be …

13 is also considered the most unlucky number, so it had to be balanced by nature making it lucky too… so there is the lucky 13 & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan…

Stay tuned for updates all this day…

Next follows… “Nusrat is My Elvis!”… featuring fans like Amitabh Bachchan & Peter Gabriel