Real World Records to release ‘lost album’ by the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

The launch of the album is being supported in part by the British Council. A new album of unheard recordings by the Pakistan musical icon Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan will be released on 20 September 2024, 34 years after they were recorded. The ‘lost album’ — named Chain of Light was discovered in the tape archives of Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records, the label that signed Khan in 1989 and released a series of universally acclaimed albums with him throughout the 1990s. The launch of the album is being supported in part by the British Council. Joined by his eight-strong party of singers and musicians, Chain of Light presents four traditional qawwalis (Sufi Islamic devotional songs) including one which has never been heard before and captures Khan at the height of his vocal capabilities i...