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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Subcontinental Drift

David Toop, The Wire, May 1996

In this extended edition of our monthly survey of sounds from around the planet, David Toop reports from the teeming streets, temples and concert halls of Lahore, and shares an audience with the great Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

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