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Where to start with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Start with Kehna Ghalat Ghalat To Chhupana Sahi Sahi — Shahen-Shah, 1989. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 29 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 15,847 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 29 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 29 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
Every track is filed under qawwali; nothing here crosses into another genre.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Kehna Ghalat Ghalat To Chhupana Sahi Sahi — Shahen-Shah, 1989. Of the 29 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the ambient end
Night Song — Night Song, 1996. The lowest energy reading of any Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan track in the room (41 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
Shamas-Ud-Doha, Badar-Ud-Doja — Shahen-Shah, 1989. The highest energy reading here, at 72 out of 100 — a 31-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's average coordinates and the range they cover.
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Mustt Mustt | 1990 | 11 |
| Night Song | 1996 | 8 |
| Shahen-Shah | 1989 | 6 |
| The Last Prophet | 1994 | 4 |
Every Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Allah, Mohammed, Char, Yaar | Shahen-Shah | 1989 |
| Kali Kali Zulfon Ke Phande Nah Dalo | Shahen-Shah | 1989 |
| Kehna Ghalat Ghalat To Chhupana Sahi Sahi | Shahen-Shah | 1989 |
| Meri Ankhon Ko Bakhshee Hain Aansoo | Shahen-Shah | 1989 |
| Nit Khair Mansan Sohnia Main Teri | Shahen-Shah | 1989 |
| Shamas-Ud-Doha, Badar-Ud-Doja | Shahen-Shah | 1989 |
| Avenue | Mustt Mustt | 1990 |
| Fault Lines | Mustt Mustt | 1990 |
| Mustt Mustt (Lost In His Work) | Mustt Mustt | 1990 |
| Mustt Mustt (Massive Attack Remix) | Mustt Mustt | 1990 |
| Nothing Without You (Tery Bina) | Mustt Mustt | 1990 |
| Sea Of Vapours | Mustt Mustt | 1990 |
| Shadow | Mustt Mustt | 1990 |
| Taa Deem | Mustt Mustt | 1990 |
| Tana Dery Na | Mustt Mustt | 1990 |
| The Game | Mustt Mustt | 1990 |
| Tracery | Mustt Mustt | 1990 |
| Ganj - E - Shakar | The Last Prophet | 1994 |
| Maki Madni | The Last Prophet | 1994 |
| Sahib Teri Bandi | The Last Prophet | 1994 |
| Sochan Dongian | The Last Prophet | 1994 |
| Crest | Night Song | 1996 |
| Intoxicated | Night Song | 1996 |
| Lament | Night Song | 1996 |
| Longing | Night Song | 1996 |
| My Comfort Remains | Night Song | 1996 |
| My Heart, My Life | Night Song | 1996 |
| Night Song | Night Song | 1996 |
| Sweet Pain | Night Song | 1996 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Sun Ra — jazz, 53 tracks
- Where to start with Medeski Martin & Wood — jazz, 15 tracks
- Where to start with Delaney Bramlett — rock, 10 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan as a solo artist, from Faisalabad, Pakistan and born in 1948. Its contributors tag the artist qawwali, sufi, ghazal, world and classical. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 29, across 4 albums. 29 of them carry a date, running from 1989 to 1996. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 29 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 29 of these 29 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.