Night Song is an album by qawwal Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and guitarist and producer Michael Brook

Michael Brook

Michael Brook is a Canadian guitarist, inventor, producer, and film music composer. He plays in many genres, including rock, electronica, world music, minimalism and film scores....

. It was the last album on Real World Records

Real World Records

Real World Records is a record label started in 1989 by Peter Gabriel to record and produce world music.-Overview:The label grew up alongside the success of the WOMAD festivals and Peter Gabriel's exploration of music from other cultures, and helped push world music into the general public's...

 that Khan lived to see finished. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album

Grammy Award for Best World Music Album

The Grammy Award for Best World Music Album was an honor presented for twelve years to recording artists for quality albums in the world music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...

 in 1996, but lost out to The Chieftains

The Chieftains

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' album Santiago

Santiago (album)

Santiago is an album by The Chieftains, released through RCA Records in 1996. In 1997, the album earned the group the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album.-Track listing:# "Txalaparta" – 1:16# "Arku - Dantza/Arin-Arin" – 4:21...

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This album, along with Mustt Mustt

Mustt Mustt

Mustt Mustt is the first Qawwali fusion album collaboration between singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and guitarist and producer Michael Brook, although the album itself is credited purely to Khan. It was rock musician Peter Gabriel who suggested that Brook and Khan work together...

, contributed tracks to the remix album Star Rise

Star Rise

Star Rise is a remix from two previous Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan / Michael Brook collaborations. The album was dedicated to the memory of Khan, who died prior to the album's completion, and released posthumously by Real World Records....

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This is perhaps the most experimental of Khan's albums, including Senegal

Senegal

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ese and classically trained musicians.

Personnel

• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - vocals
  Singing
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  , harmonium
  Harmonium
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  , keyboard
  Musical keyboard
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• Michael Brook
  Michael Brook
  Michael Brook is a Canadian guitarist, inventor, producer, and film music composer. He plays in many genres, including rock, electronica, world music, minimalism and film scores....
  
   - infinite guitar
  Infinite Guitar
  The Infinite Guitar was created by Michael Brook, as a way of allowing an electric guitar note to be held with infinite sustain . It consists of an electronic circuit that takes the signal from a standard guitar pickup, amplifies it, and feeds it back into a separate pickup coil...
  
  , string arrangement, keyboards, electronic percussion, bass drone
  Bass guitar
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  , buzz bass
• Caroline Dale
  Caroline Dale
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   - cello
  Cello
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• Dildar Hussain
  Dildar Hussain
  Dildar Hussain was the percussionist of Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's Qawwali party until Nusrat's death in 1997.Dildar Hussain learned tabla from Ustad Allah Rakha Khan. His first performance was in India in 1969 before he joined Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's Qawwali party in 1971...
  
   - tabla
  Tabla
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• Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan
  Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan
  Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan was a member of a well-known family of Qawwali musicians. He was the younger brother of Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the son of Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, the nephew of Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan, and the father of Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.-Short Biography:Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan...
  
   - harmonium
• James Pinker - drums
  Drum kit
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  , percussion, hi-hat
  Hi-hat
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• Jo Bruce - Hammond Organ
  Hammond organ
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  , woodwinds, drums
• Kauwding Cissokho - kora
  Kora (instrument)
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• Massamba Diop - talking drum
• Mick Karn
  Mick Karn
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   - bass
• Richard Evans - mandola
  Mandola
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  , acid wah treatment
• Robert Ahwai - bass

Track listing

1. My Heart, My Life - 5:30
2. Intoxicated - 7:34
3. Lament - 5:14
4. My Comfort Remains - 6:39
5. Longing - 5:35
6. Sweet Pain - 6:28
7. Night Song - 4:47
8. Crest - 6:14