Mustt Mustt
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{{Infobox album
| name = Mustt Mustt
| type = Album
| artist = Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
| cover = NusratFatehAliKhan-MusttMustt.jpg
| alt =
| released = 12 November 1990
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Qawwali, world fusion
| length = 49:43
| label = Real World
| producer = Michael Brook
| prev_title = Shahen-Shah
| prev_year = 1988
| next_title = Magic Touch
| next_year = 1991
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = Michael Brook
| type = studio
| prev_title = Sleeps with the Fishes
| prev_year = 1987
| title = Mustt Mustt
| year = 1990
| next_title = Cobalt Blue
| next_year = 1992
}}
}}
Mustt Mustt is the first Qawwali fusion album collaboration between singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and guitarist and producer Michael Brook,{{Cite journal|last=Kane|first=Peter|date=5 March 1991|title=Stories|journal=Q Magazine|volume=55|pages=11}} although the album itself is credited purely to Khan. It was rock musician Peter Gabriel who suggested that Brook and Khan work together.{{Citation
| title = Mustt Mustt
| publisher = Official Michael Brook Website
| url = http://michaelbrookmusic.com/mustt-mustt/
| accessdate = 25 September 2009
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090706104326/http://michaelbrookmusic.com/mustt-mustt/
| archive-date = 6 July 2009
| url-status = dead
}} It was released in 1990 on Gabriel's Real World Records label.
This album, along with Night Song, contributed tracks to the remix album Star Rise.
The song "Mustt Mustt" was remixed by British trip hop group Massive Attack and was a club hit in the United Kingdom, being the first song in Urdu to reach the British charts.{{Citation
| title = Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Biography
| newspaper = NME
| url = https://www.nme.com/artists/nusrat-fateh-ali-khan
| accessdate = 25 September 2009
| archive-date = 3 March 2011
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110303085654/http://www.nme.com/artists/nusrat-fateh-ali-khan
| url-status = dead
}} It was later used in an advert for Coca-Cola.{{Citation
| last = Tarte
| first = Bob
| title = Capturing the essence of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
| newspaper = Miami New Times
| date = 19 February 2004
| url = http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2004-02-19/music/must-see-dvd/
| accessdate =25 September 2009
}}
Real World Records, the label which released the album, claimed that the album sold over 600,000 copies outside the Indian subcontinent. {{cite web|url=https://realworldrecords.com/features/blogs/track-of-the-day-mustt-mustt-by-nusrat-fateh-ali-khan/|title=Track of the Day: 'Mustt Mustt' by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan }}
Reception
{{Album reviews
|rev1 = Allmusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r98687|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]
}}
Mustt Mustt was voted one of the Top 100 albums of the 1990s by American music magazine Alternative Press.{{Citation
| last = Punn
| first = Goher Iqbal
| title = Remembering a legend
| publisher = Screen
| date = 31 January 2003
| url = http://www.screenindia.com/old/fullstory.php?content_id=1588
| access-date =25 September 2009 }}{{dead link|date=November 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
It reached No. 14 on the Billboard Top World Music Albums chart in 1991.
David Lynch of The Austin Chronicle called the album a "seminal fusion".{{Citation
| last = Lynch
| first = David
| title = Review – Nusrat Fateh Qawwali Khan
| newspaper = The Austin Chronicle
| date = 27 July 2001
| url = http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid%3A82488
| accessdate =25 September 2009
}}
British musician Nitin Sawhney said that it "changed the face of British music forever".{{Citation
| last = Sawhney
| first = Nitin
| author-link = Nitin Sawhney
| title = Observer Music Monthly – Nitin Sawhney
| newspaper = The Observer
| date = 17 June 2004
| url = http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1241261,00.html
| accessdate =25 September 2009
}}
It was considered a "secularized" or "Western" version of Khan's other Qawwali albums.{{Citation
| last = Givens
| first = Ron
| title = Mustt Mustt Music Review
| newspaper = Entertainment Weekly
| date = 19 April 1991
| url = https://ew.com/article/1991/04/19/mustt-mustt/
| access-date =25 September 2009
}}
Track listing
- "Mustt Mustt (Lost in His Work)" (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) – 5:15
- "Nothing Without You (Tery Bina)" (Khan) – 5:04
- "Tracery" (Michael Brook) – 4:48
- "The Game" (Robert Ahwai, Brook, Khan) – 4:59
- "Taa Deem" (Khan) – 4:47
- "Sea of Vapours" (Brook) – 3:55
- "Fault Lines" (Brook) – 4:13
- "Tana Dery Na" (Brook, Khan) – 4:23
- "Shadow" (Khan) – 3:04
- "Avenue" (Brook) – 4:51
- "Mustt Mustt (Massive Attack remix)" (Khan) – 4:24
Charts
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| Chart (1991)
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| {{Album chart|BillboardWorld|14|artist=Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan|album=Mustt Mustt|refname=billboardmusttmustt|accessdate=27 August 2019}} |
References
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Category:1990 collaborative albums