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Neil Sparkes - poet, painter, global dub
professor, alumnus of Trans-Global Underground.
Count Dubulah - Trans-Global Underground co-founder, writer/producer for Natacha Atlas and Trans-Global. On a vivid WOMAD festival evening in 1993, they witnessed the unforgettable Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - and the spiritual code that inspires Pakistan's devotional qawwali tradition was forever imprinted on their musical psyches. Exploring the great Sufi poets, playing with Kurdish and Egyptian masters, ruminating on Islam and its sacred texts...all paths seemed to lead inexorably to direct involvement with some kind of qawwali project. Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali - nephews of Nusrat, bearers of the family legacy, rising young stars of qawwali... Eager to branch out beyond the traditional confines of their repertoire, they were encouraged by their manager, Rashid Ahmed Din, a visionary who's also managed Nusrat and overseen his classic collaborations. The impetus behind this new exploration was not "a mere bolting of beats to the group's identity," according to Sparkes. "This was going to be 21st century qawwali-organic meets technological, moving all our traditions forward...50/50 or nothing at all." In the Big Room at Real World and back in London, PEOPLE'S COLONY NO. 1 took form - with Jah Wobble and his booming bass shaking the fundamentals; Zafar Ali Khan, the Bruce Lee of the tabla; Cuba violinist Omar Puente sounding intriguingly Arabic; Kevin Haynes injecting the spirit of Santeria into musical body with his percussion; Harry Beckett on the brass. The result is majestic, taking the qawwali story from where it was left after Massive Attack's remix of Nusrat's MUSTT MUSTT. Also from Riazwan-Muazzam Qawwali ~
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