The album Chain of Light by the late qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party has secured the top position of the Transglobal World Music Chart for the month of November 2024.
Chain of Light is a new album of previously unreleased recordings by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, released 34 years after they were made. Joined by his eight-member ensemble of singers and musicians, Chain of Light presents four traditional qawwals (Sufi Islamic devotional songs), including one which has never been heard before.
The album captures Khan at the height of his vocal capabilities in pristine sound quality. The recording was made at Real World Studios in April 1990, during the same time he worked on the groundbreaking Mustt Mustt, his seminal crossover album with Canadian producer Michael Brook.
TWMC for November 2024
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party – Chain of Light – Real World
- Buzz’ Ayaz – Buzz’ Ayaz – Glitterbeat
- El Khat – Mute – Glitterbeat
- Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 – Heavier Yet (Lays the Crownless Head) – Record Kicks
- Mari Boine – Alva – By Norse Music
- Afro Celt Sound System – Ova – Six Degrees
- Ayom – Sa.Li.Va – Ayom / Believe
- Justin Adams & Mauro Durante – Sweet Release – Ponderosa Music
- Ruşan Filiztek – Exils – Accords Croisés
- Lo’Jo – Feuilles Fauves – Yotanka / Integral
- Vigüela – We – Mapamundi Musica
- África Negra – Antologia Vol. 2 – Les Disques Bongo Joe
- Jyotsna Srikanth – Carnatic Nomad – Naxos World
- Meridian Brothers – Mi Latinoamérica Sufre – Les Disques Bongo Joe
- Driss El Maloumi Trio & Watar Quintet – Details – Contre Jour / Zig Zag World
- Sinimuso – Nouskaa Sisaret – Sinimuso
- The Zawose Queens – Maisha – Real World
- Seckou Keita – Homeland (Chapter 1) – Hudson Records
- K.O.G. – Don’t Take My Soul – Heavenly Sweetness
- V.A. – Super Disco Pirata: De Tepito para el Mundo 1965-1980 – Analog Africa
- Lucibela – Moda Antiga – Lusafrica
- Jaune Toujours – Vertigo – Choux de Bruxelles
- Manu Chao – Viva Tu – Because Music
- Arooj Aftab – Night Reign – Verve
- Choduraa Tumat – Yrlyg Bulak / Singing River – Pan
- Süperstar Orkestar – Guča Revisited – Hajde
- Ahmed Moneka – Kanzafula: Afro-Iraqi Sufi Soul – LulaWorld
- Carmen Souza – Port’inglês – Galileo Music Communication
- Lemon Bucket Orkestra – Cuckoo – Lemon Bucket Orkestra
- V.A. – Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia – Ostinato
- Los Cumbia Stars – La Cumbia Une a Latinoamérica – Discos Fuentes
- Bhutan Balladeers – Your Face Is Like the Moon, Your Eyes Are Stars – Glitterbeat
- Dal:um – Coexistence – tak:til / Glitterbeat
- Bassekou Kouyate & Amy Sacko – Djudjon, l’Oiseau de Garana – One World
- Ánnámáret – Bálvvosbáiki – Uksi Productions
- Carla Pires – VaiVem – Ocarina Music
- Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin – Symbiont – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
- Taikuh Jikang – Tori / Birds – microAction
- The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys – Wanderers Like Me – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
- Soba – Fiman – MDC
More about the Transglobal World Music Chart: www.transglobalwmc.com
Author: World Music Central News Room
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