Mustt Mustt is the first Qawwali

Qawwali

Qawwali is a form of Sufi devotional music popular in South Asia, particularly in the Punjab and Sindh regions of Pakistan, Hyderabad, Delhi, and other parts of northern India...

 fusion album

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 collaboration between singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and guitarist

Guitarist

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 and producer

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 Michael Brook

Michael Brook

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, although the album itself is credited purely to Khan. It was rock musician Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel

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 who suggested that Brook and Khan work together. It was released in 1990

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 on Gabriel's Real World Records

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 label.

This album, along with Night Song

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, contributed tracks to the remix album Star Rise

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.

The song "Mustt Mustt" was remix

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ed by British trip hop

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 group Massive Attack

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 and was a club

Electronic dance music

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 hit in the United Kingdom, being the first song in Urdu

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 to reach the British charts. It was later used in an advert for Coca Cola.

Reception

Mustt Mustt was voted one of the Top 100 albums of the 1990s by American music magazine Alternative Press. It reached #14 on the Billboard

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Top World Music Albums chart in 1991. David Lynch of the The Austin Chronicle called the album a "seminal fusion". British musician Nitin Sawhney

Nitin Sawhney

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 said that it "changed the face of British music forever". It was considered a "secularized" or "Western" version of Khan's other Qawwali albums.

Track listing

1. "Mustt Mustt (Lost in His Work)" (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) – 5:15
2. "Nothing Without You (Tery Bina)" (Khan) – 5:04
3. "Tracery" (Michael Brook) – 4:48
4. "The Game" (Robert Ahwai, Brook, Khan) – 4:59
5. "Taa Deem" (Khan) – 4:47
6. "Sea of Vapours" (Brook) – 3:55
7. "Fault Lines" (Brook) – 4:13
8. "Tana Dery Na" (Brook, Khan) – 4:23
9. "Shadow" (Khan) – 3:04
10. "Avenue" (Brook) – 4:51
11. "Mustt Mustt (Massive Attack
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    Massive Attack are an English DJ and trip hop duo from Bristol, England consisting of Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall. Working with co-producers, as well as various session musicians and guest vocalists, they make records and tour live. The duo are considered to be of the trip...
    
    remix)" (Khan) – 4:24