IMHO, this LP is one of the best of the last 20 years.

Sheer Brilliance!!! I love that album!!

You should check the music from one of the singers on the album: nusrat fateh ali khan: great voice!!!
you can find more on the site of real world records.
http://www.realworld.co.uk/index/flash/

passion is a great record. great rhythms, great vibe, very uplifting spiritual vibe.

and, yeah, it kind of turned me on to nusrat fateh ali khan as well. my suggestion for a a record of his is "mustt mustt" if you like passion, check it out! it is with a western electric band, and i believe that some of the gabriel folks like tony levin are on it. some of his albums are traditional qawwali music with pakastani musicians, which i love too, but some folks i've played that kind of stuff for have a harder time getting into it.

nusrat fateh ali khan played atlanta in the late 90's at some point, and i saw fliers for the show, but couldn't go because of scheduling problems. then i heard a few years later that he had died, i was bummed.

i've been listening to the dvd of the secret world tour from gabriel a lot recently, pete is just way cool.

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[This message was edited Tue Apr 29 4:30:48 PDT 2003 by medoc2003]

The original quwali music is very nice though - some cheap but high quality releases on that "realworld"-label. Some more accesible stuff , he did with eddie vedder on the "dead man walking" soundtrack. their combination is sublime!!!
also from the practically the same region, and a bit more easy to listen to, is teh gypsie music from rajasthan (nort-India). Some fine cd's were made by the group "musafir". But really - on the realworld site; there's a page "wall of sound" or "audiowall" and you can listen to fragments of all the cd's from all the continents and countries, in a very easy way!!