An interview with Brooklyn Qawwali Party
“The sacred sounds that I yearned to find in western jazz were emanating from Nusrat in this completely foreign music” (Brook Martinez, Percussionist and Founder of the Brooklyn Qawwali Party) It is not often that you find something as unique and as fresh as Brooklyn Qawwali Party (BQP) while surfing for music on the internet. For a qawwali aficionado like me, to hear a note by note rendition of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s most famous qawwalis played through instruments like the trumpet and the tenor saxophone, was nothing short of divine. The Brooklyn Qawwali Party is an ensemble of eleven proficient ...
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Where art and cinema failed Pakistan
We are constantly judged as the nation that has failed. What the world fails to see is that Pakistan continues to breathe. Despite the daily risk to their lives, people still get up for work, sit in their Japanese cars, listen to Coke Studio recordings, work at multinational companies, munch on American chocolate bars and end the day with by watching channels broadcast from Hong Kong with a plate of daal chawal. The men and women on the field continue to live on, for those who have avoided the flood wage through the day. While those who are victims ...
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