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Where to start with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Start with Allah, Mohammed, Char, Yaar — 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 14,971 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.
One caveat worth stating: the knob positions across these tracks barely move, which usually means they were set in a batch rather than one at a time. Treat the coordinates below as approximate.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Allah, Mohammed, Char, Yaar — Shahen-Shah, 1989. All 29 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan tracks here carry the same reading, so the knobs cannot single one out. This is the pick from among them that the room can name a record and a year for, which is the most an entry point needs in order to be findable. A better answer waits on somebody listening track by track.
Only one entry point is offered for Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The room holds a single reading for this artist rather than one per track, so every track here sits at the same coordinate and there are no opposite ends to point at. That is a gap in what has been listened to, not a claim that the music never moves.
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.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 60 | 60–60 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 58 | 58–58 | ambient → driving |
| density | 62 | 62–62 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 62 | 62–62 | cerebral → groove |
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 Weather Report — jazz, 14 tracks
- Where to start with Arthur Russell — art pop, 17 tracks
- Where to start with The Rolling Stones — rock, 26 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, not by audio analysis and not from a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. For Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan the room holds one reading covering the whole catalogue rather than a separate one for each track, so all 29 sit at the same coordinate. It is a real judgement about the artist, and a coarser one than a per-track number would be.
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.