Style recipe for Suno v5

Qawwali

Sufi qawwali from the 1980s: harmonium, second harmonium, tabla, euphoric and anthemic in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

History

Qawwali is Sufi devotional singing from South Asia, and its beginning is usually traced to the 13th-century poet and musician Amir Khusrau of Delhi, a disciple of the Chishti saint Nizamuddin Auliya. Khusrau wrote in Persian and Hindavi for gatherings called mehfil-e-sama, assemblies for listening, meant for spiritual elevation and, for those prepared, wajd, an ecstatic absorption in the remembrance of God. The name comes from qaul, Arabic for saying, and Man Kunto Maula, built on a saying of the Prophet, is one of the earliest pieces tied to Khusrau. At first instruments were forbidden, and Nizamuddin Auliya called them haram outright; harmonium and tabla came in only later. A qawwali party is mostly men singing in several voices and repeating a single line many times over, while the poetry uses wine and drunkenness as metaphors for the mystic state. Performers traditionally learned through hereditary training tied to a particular shrine. The wider world heard the form largely through Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and the Sabri Brothers, whose Real World Records releases and WOMAD appearances carried it far beyond South Asia, and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Fareed Ayaz keep it going today.

The recipe

Sufi qawwali, 1980s, euphoric, anthemic…

Count them: 38 tags, 694 characters, straight from the 1980s at 90–140 BPM.

Artists in this style

• Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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