Track Listing

1. Sweet Pain
2. My Heart My Life
3. Taa Deen
4. Shadow
5. Longing
6. My Comfort Remains
7. Tracery
8. Lament
9. Tery Bina

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #175714 in Music
• Released on: 1997-10-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
This 1997 CD of remixes, intended as a celebration by various young UK Asian musicians of the work of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, became a poignant tribute when news of Nusrat's premature death was announced as the record was being completed. Drawing on two CDs recorded for Peter Gabriel's Real World label--Mustt Musst and Night Song (with the collaboration of Michael Brook)--Star Rise is both an acknowledgement of an extraordinary cultural heritage and a showcase for the Asian presence in contemporary dance culture. Mustt Musst featured a startling dubbed-up remix by Massive Attack, and Star Rise, for the most part, offers equally inventive settings for Nusrat's soaring vocal improvisations--ranging from the delicate remix by State of Bengal, through the drum & bass influenced Nitin Sawhney mix, to the agit-prop beat-heavy versions by The Dhol Foundation and Asian Dub Foundation, while Talvin Singh's rendering of "My Heart, My Life" is hypnotically minimal and meditative. For those unfamiliar with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's work, this, along with Shahen-Shah, Shahbaaz or Rapture (showcasing the traditional qawwali devotional songs for which he was famous) would be as good an introduction as any to one of the great voices of world music. --Burhan Tufail

CD Description
A project begun before the untimely death of legendary Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, these remixes of collaborations between Nusrat and Canadian composer Michael Brook aresolid proof of the singer's enormous influence on an entiregeneration of Britain's underground Anglo-Asian producers, musicians and DJ's. Merging the sublime vocals and ambient music with trip-hop beats and drum-and-bass tracks results inan album of rich and varied compositions, from the deeply danceable "Sweet Pain Remix" by Joi to the more meditative "My Heart, My Life Remix" by Talvin Singh and the blurry psychedelia of Aki Nawaz's "Longing Remix". STAR RISE is a coherent, vibrant tribute to a performer of immense talent and passion.

Customer Reviews

New 'Stars' old & new 'Beats': East meets West New 'Dub Qawwali' inspires!
Just after the New Year of 1999. I bought this as my sixth CD collection involving Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - with a difference in that it was a re-mix with Michael Brook and other new underground stars that were around and started to emerge & interpret Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's Qawwali.

The other artist's contributions in this CD and their combinations had my fullest attention and were listening to it with great interest. The final track (9): "Nothing without/Teri Bina Remix - by The Dhol Foundation & Fun^da^mental", I was more than satisfied with this new addition. The Dhol beats were exquisite! The other tracks that stood out for me was 'Ta Deem' by the Asian Dub Foundation (ADF), Tracery Remix by Nithin Sawhney, Sweet Pain Remix by Joi. The rest of the tracks were good and I did not find a bad track!

This was a very good attempt to mix traditional and contemporary `Asian back-beat' with a mix of Qawwali sound. I remember playing it on Burngreave Community Radio (PCM) RSL broadcast in March/April 2001. This also included a track from the Musst Musst & Night Song album(s) called "Ta Deem" & within the Community Music Album by ADF and another track called "Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan: New Way New Life" (which was about the popular & stereotypical 1960s & 70s BBC-TV Asian weekend TV programme) within the same ADF album! I had also purchased the Asian Dub Foundation Album after listening to them in this Remixed collection under Star Rise before 2001. This I believe, was instrumental in creating an increased interest in Community Music - with a revitalization of under ground fusion & crossover beats within Sheffield and elsewhere.

It's a good idea to buy 'Dub Qawwali' by Gaudi (2007) and this interestingly is the best 'fusion' attempt to recreate Qawwali in this way in recent times since 1997. If you like combining the old and new, east and west, sacred and secular then this is the one to buy as well!

A good introduction.
I bought this album on the strength of the major artists that were involved in its remixes, but not sure whether such a mix of traditional Qawwali and contemporary Asian breakbeat would work. Rest assured, it does! There are no poor tracks, but stand-outs include Ta Deem (ADF) and Sweet Pain (Joi). As an intro to either genre on which it is based, it is a very good buy and pretty original.