Star Rise - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook remixed

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook

Credits

Real World Records
UK: 6 October 1997
US: 27 January 1998

Vocals by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
all tracks produced by Michael Brook

A Real World design. Graphic design by Tristan Manco. Photography by Stephen Lovell-Davis. Art direction by Michael Coulson. All artwork copyright the respective creators. Used here without permission.

Tracks

Sweet Pain (Michael Brook, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) 6'17

remixed by Joi
original track from Night Song

My Heart, My Life (Michael Brook, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) 8'03

remixed by Talvin Singh
original track from Night Song

Taa Deem (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) 4'51

remixed by Asian Dub Foundation
original track from Mustt Mustt

Shadow (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) 7'27

remixed by State of Bengal
original track from Mustt Mustt

Longing (Michael Brook, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) 7'44

remixed by Aki Nawaz
original track from Night Song

My Comfort Remains (Michael Brook, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) 2'57

remixed by Black Star Liner
original track from Night Song

Tracery (Michael Brook) 7'46

remixed by Nitin Sawhney
original track from Mustt Mustt

Lament (Michael Brook, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) 7'15

remixed by Earthtribe
original track from Night Song

Nothing Without You / Tery Bina (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) 6'08

remixed by The Dhol Foundation & FunˆDaˆMental
original track from Mustt Mustt

Notes

Early reports indicated the album was to be produced by Peter Gabriel. Although he was surely involved in some sense, he was apparently not the prime mover behind putting the record together. The production credit given to Michael Brook could refer to his role as producer of the original tracks, it is unknown if he actually "produced" Star Rise, as such.

This cd was in the pipeline for some time before Khan's death. Bruce Carle writes the New Music Express Magazine obituary mentions the remix album: "I saw a brief obit in the NME that said Khan was in the process of finalizing the artwork when he died, so this project was done completely with his approval and input."

It is possible the timetable was pushed forward due to Khan's untimely death. It is not my wish to accuse Real World of cold exploitation, especially in a time like this, where the world lost a number of important, charitable people all in a row (artists like Khan and Versace, aristocrats like Diana, saints like Mother Teresa ...). Expect, nevertheless, a bevy of compilations, remixes, live discs, and other releases capitalizing on Khan's death.

It is worth noting here: For an interviewer earlier in 1997, Brook played "a DAT of an unreleased Ali Kahn/Brook song which incorporates Indian chanting samples, a heavy jungle beat and a touch of something different" ("... drones and ornamentation," Eyesore, Jeff Keibel, 22 May 1997).

Track notes

• Curiously, the liner notes give no credit to the musicians of the original tracks, elements of which remain in places. Also, and perhaps more pressing, no indication of the source of the numerous samples and loops is given, either. Perhaps the Asian Underground is still a little too "underground" to cite their sources.

• "Shadow" is included in the compilation Real World Notes 5.

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