Religious or Spiritual Music

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by aneeshm


Sorry I forgot you , Molly . But how many Molly's are there in this forum ?

Only I is I, Ali G. might say.

However, you'll find that at least one other person (Laz. & the Gimp) can tell his Sheila Chandra from his Ananda Shankar and his Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan from his Lata Mangeshkar.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by molly bloom



Only I is I, Ali G. might say.

However, you'll find that at least one other person (Laz. & the Gimp) can tell his Sheila Chandra from his Ananda Shankar and his Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan from his Lata Mangeshkar.

Hey I saw Nusrat here at the Unitarian Church!

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Sikander

Hey I saw Nusrat here at the Unitarian Church!

The ripples spread... had I known, you would have been mentioned too. I have only so much info. in your biography to hand....


I was deeply affected by his music when I first heard it on a WOMAD compilation tape, then went out and bought the first recording of his that I owned, which was a double album of songs, devotional and love songs (although of course in Qawwali profane love songs can be metaphors for the sacred ).

There was an interesting documentary on Channel 4 last weekend presented by William Dalrymple- Sufi Soul: The Mystic Music of Islam, in which he visited sites associated with the Sufi movement in Islam- from Turkey through Iran to Pakistan and India.

The popularity in the US of Rumi, a 13th-century Turkish poet, is a tragic irony, as the order of Sufi dervishes he founded is banned at home, writes William Dalrymple

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/classics/story/0,6000,1634757,00.html