Jeff Buckley on Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Qawalli

Jeff Buckley's rendition of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's famous 'Yeh jo Halka Halka Suroor Hai', live at Sine in 1993. Excerpts are taken from an interview conducted by Jeff with Nusrat in January 1996 as well as from a dedication written by Jeff on his hero in 1997.
Details of the interviiew can be found at:
http://www.jeffbuckley.com/news.asp?id=13
and:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_n1_v26/ai_17873369/
Jeff's dedication:
http://www.liquidgnome.com/JeffBuckley/nusrat.html
Other links you should take a look at:
http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/words/interviews/doubletake.html
Enjoy.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Jeff
• Buckley
• Nusrat
• Fateh
• Ali
• Khan
• Qawalli
• Sufism

[myk908]

the way he is with nusrat is the way i am with him.

[misszeppelin]

I've never heard an American man sing so beautifully in hindi and hit every note and have such wicked pronunciation!! I love Jeff Buckley, but today he has reached new heights to me, i'm blown away. I feel so inspired and unbelievably shocked right now. I am in love

[Fahmee4u]

My Elvis Jeff singing song of his elvis Nusrat... Both legends died very early in 97...

[dano555666]

It's a shame every peak musician worth any value has died of strange circumstances.

Why is it the sellout shills never drown on an impossible amount of wine, get shot by "the government told me to do it" crazies, or shoot themselves with their wrong hand?

I wonder sometimes. I know Cobains death is completely murder, based on all the facts. They can skew that, what other deaths have they skewed? Hendrix with 4 bottles of wine inside him? It's all fishy.

Geoffs makes me wonder sometimes.

[sk90y]

@misszeppelin THATS NOT HINDI!!! its URDU!!! nusrat is from pakistani.... in the subcontinent he the man... most brilliant musician ever lived without question..

[23june89]

anyone know what tuning he's using? seems like a open tuning ...

[sarahleo15]

@misszeppelin Its not hindi its Urdu. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was a Pakistani

[manurocks4ever]

btw jeff died only months before nusrat died

[Leirbas]

Being the first thing I ever heard by Jeff Buckley or Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, this video introduced me 2 greats of music. Beyond outstanding.

[crazedzealots]

An amazing moment, thank god the audio was captured of this performance and I have had a chance to hear it. Absolutely incredible. The technique it takes to sing like that is ridiculous. Jeff was a genius and can mimic anything he decided to. All my years of singing and about 1 day in 30 I can sing like Jeff Buckley. Hit his notes, reverberate his tones, and slide effortlessly through myriads of tricky notes. The other 29 I am just average again.

[JohnitoPatito]

I think I'm going to fake some youtube-accounts to like this over and over again

[slavicpolymath]

"So now you all... have kind of gotten... the thing!"