Surrender to the musical trance as master singers Rizwan and Muazzam Mujahid Ali Khan fill Roskilde Festival with the ancient Sufi rituals of qawwali music.
With their duo Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali, the two vocalists have been some of the foremost ambassadors of Qawwali music for three decades. The genre has its roots in a spiritual singing tradition that can be traced back to 13th-century Sufi rituals and is widespread in large parts of Asia in countries such as Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.
Qawwali music has captivated listeners around the world with its meditative and poetic vocal lines, which often unfold in long, trance-inducing sequences. Qawwali music truly reached a global audience through the legendary Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who died in 1997. Rizwan and Muazzam Mujahid Ali Khan are nephews of the legend and have since his death carried on the qawwali torch with a passionate dedication to the music's traditional tonal language and instruments such as the harmonium and tablas, as well as, of course, the chanting vocals.
One of their very first international concerts was in 1999 at Roskilde Festival, and it is therefore a special pleasure to bring the duo back to the festival after the release of their brand new and beautiful album At the Feet of the Beloved, released on Peter Gabriel's label Real World Records.
