Yaar Da Muhallah (live at Real World Studios)

Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali

Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali, nephews of the late Pakistan music icon Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan perform ‘Yaar Da Muhallah’, taken from their new album At the Feet of the Beloved, out 14 March 2025 on Real World Records.

Imbued with the spirit of their late uncle, the qawwali master Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali have returned with another deeply accomplished, moving collection of songs that ache with the frenzied anxiety of falling in love and dreamy desire of devotion. Their vocals and arrangements are refined and, together with their party, they build a world that helps the listener connect to another one.

On ‘Yaar Da Muhallah’, the group’s vocal harmonies melt into each other like waves lapping on the shore. The devotion pours forth, ultimately religious and spiritual in nature but open to the listener on the type of love they hold in their own heart. In Qawwali, worship of the divine is a romantic ecstasy in of itself, as heard in the line, “I have dyed my heart in the beloved’s hue” where the vocals and instrumentation build in mesmerising intensity and passion.

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