Swan Song (His Final Performance)

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (View Discography)

Swan Song (His Final Performance) (2xCD)

Released: November 11, 2002

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SWAN SONG is Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's final public performance.
Personnel: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (vocals); Salman Ashraf (guitar); Rashid Hussein (saxophone); Farukh Fateh Ali Khan, Irshad Hussein (harmonium, background vocals); Imran Hussein (keyboards); Tanveer Hussein (bass); Nadeem Ashraf (drums); Dildar Hussein (tabla, background vocals); Asad Ali, Ilyas Hussein, Khalid Mehmood, Nafis Ahmed, Ghulam Farid (background vocals).
Recorded live in Pakistan.
Digitally remastered by Syed Shehzad Hassan (Underground Studios) and Andrew Walter (Abbey Road Studios, London).
The late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's family has been an integral part of the qawwali music tradition for over 100 years, each generation passing on its insights, skills, and mystical teachings to the next. The qawwal is a hypnotic style of music that uses ancient Sufi poetry to worship Muhammad and to express other concepts, usually of romantic love.
Tabla drums infuse SWAN SONG with a trance-like pulse, while harmoniums drone away in the background, and a chorus echoes Nusrat's voice. Nusrat has been described as having a "voice from heaven," and hearing is believing. On this, his final performance, a live concert performed for over 6000 people, Nusrat performs a mix of mostly traditional and folk classics including "Piya Ghar Aya," "Akhian Udeek Diyan," and "Loey Loey."

Tracks

1. Hoo
2. Ali Da Malang
3. Loey Loey
4. Afreen Afreen

1. Ik Pal Chein Na Awey
2. Akhian Udeek Diyan
3. Kina Sona
4. Piya Ghar Aya
5. Mustt Nazron
6. Mustt Mustt