The Ultimate Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Vol. 2: The Early Years -Rare Recordings -1983-1984.

The late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan has been world-renowned for two decades for the prolific recording output that propelled his rising star from the mid-1980s onward.

But this astonishing velvet voice did not emerge from nowhere, and it is high time now to discover the celebrated Pakistani's earlier jewels - less well-known but equally essential to his eventual success in the West, and to any completist collector's CD library.

These songs, recorded between 1983 and 1984, allow an audio glimpse of the younger Nusrat in original and characteristically innovative versions, confirming his exceptional ability to captivate us body and soul. No admirer of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan can afford to be without these newly-unearthed early sessions from archives in his native Pakistan, tha showcase the finest Sufi Islamic qawwali singer of our time ?truly one of the 20th century?s greatest voices.

Here is the young master in all his innovative original glory, confirming the epic talent that subsequently ascended to global stardom.

2 CD set. ISBN: 9991498257