The South Asian art form known as Sufi music has a centuries old tradition built on poetry and mysticism coupled with specific instruments, meters and repetition. Brooklyn-based Pakistani musician ...
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine whirrs to life. As the Kashmiri tailor stitches, the machine ...
Drummer Brook Martinez was a little worried when he first formed Brooklyn Qawwali Party in 2004. For one thing, the Qawwali tradition is sacred — it’s the devotional music for a mystical sect of Islam ...