This is must buy as along with being great music is also a documentation of rarely recorded works of a fleeting genre. A number of the artists recorded have never previously been recorded at all and some are now deceased, since these recordings were made.
Sufi music is Islamic in nature but has very little to do with organised religion. The music itself is not written or performed to any set standard but rather being truly folk music is passed down from generation to generation. Each individual performance is unique and the genre thus evolves quite organically.
These CDs concentrate on Pakistani Sufi music which grew out of Islamic mysticism that developed around the Indus river from the 8th century onwards. The content varies from deeply haunting to light-hearted to the almost surreal in Ghulam Ali Qawwal and Party's "Deewana hai Deewana". The recordings include the unsung masters Pathane Khan and Allan Fakir as well as various tribal instrumentals from Sindh and Baluchistan. The second CD also includes a recording of the virtuoso performance of Muhammad Fakir on the Sarangi or Pakistani short-necked lute and the drug induced drumming of Lahore's Pappu Sain.
On the whole the content is spiritually invigorating, calming and an ideal purchase for the more discerningly cosmopolitan as well as connoisseurs of the genre.
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