Sami Yusuf - Mast Qalandar (Stepping into Light) [Live] #worldmusic #worldmusictraditions

Sami Yusuf — Mast Qalandar (Stepping into Light) Sami Yusuf is a British composer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist, Founder of the Fons Sophiae Collective — a pioneer of world music traditions. Download/Stream: https://sy.lnk.to/MastQalandarLive Watch SY's Official YouTube Playlist http://andnt.co/SYplaylist | Circle: http://circle.samiyusuf.art Follow: http://www.twitter.com/samiyusuf | http://www.facebook.com/samiyusuf | http://www.instagram.com/samiyusuf | https://www.tiktok.com/@samiyusuf | https://samiyusuf.art ------------------------------------ Sami Yusuf performs 'Mast Qalandar' live at the Dubai EXPO. Experience the exhilarating sound of Sufi qawwali music in this version of the song popularised by the legendary Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and delivered here in a new arrangement by Sami Yusuf and an international ensemble. The lyrics are based on a poem by the Chisti Sufi and musical genius, Amir Khusro, and were later modified by the great Panjabi Sufi poet Bulleh Shah. Credits: Composer and Musical Director: Sami Yusuf The Vocal Soloists: Sami Yusuf Riaz Hussain Pooja Gaitonde The Qawwali Musicians: Riaz Hussain: vocal soloist Sudheesh Kakkur: tabla Manoj Kumar: dholak Seyed Ali Mehdi Naqvi: vocalist Abbas Raza: vocalist Syed Munawar Ali Rizvi: vocalist The Instrumentalists: Eyüpcan Açıkpazu: ney | Togrul Asadullayev: kemanche | Omer Avci: percussion Selim Boyaci: oud | Onur Cicin: qanun | Shirzad Fataliyev: balaban Guo Gan: erhu | Fariz Huseynov: kemanche | Mohammad Jaberi: daf Seyed Ali Jaberi: tanbur | Asad Khan: sitar | Jon Lawton: classical guitar, tanbur Khalil Masimov: kemanche | Farshad Mohammadi: santur | Lyudmila Naumova: orchestral percussion Kutay Ozcan: baglama | Rufat Xalilov: kemanche Manoj Kumar Moothedath: Dholak | Sudheesh Kakkur: Tabla Choir: Narmin Abdullayeva, Nigar Asgarova, Nancy Al Baltaji, Abdulrazzak Barma, Mahsati Jabbarova, Rufat Khalilov, Nazim Mahmudov, Karim Hodroj-Remmel, Abeer El Sayed, Ismayil Yunusov Music Production Supervisor: Ruslan Salimov Mixed & Mastered by Vishnu Rajan @ Andante Studios Video editing and post-production by Omar Al-Balushi @ Andante Studios ------------------------------------ #SamiYusuf #BeyondTheStars #DubaiEXPO #WorldMusic #WorldMusicTraditions #MastQalandar #Qawwali