Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

This is the album that "broke" Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan to a world audience. He later received recognition as a source for Peter Gabriel's Passion and worked with Eddie Vedder on Dead Man Walking's soundtrack, but this is the first essential crossover offering from Pakistan's foremost Qawaali singer. Note the Massive Attack remix tacked on at the end.

Sometimes--"Tracery" feh, "Sea of Vapours" pee-yoo--the master modernizer of Sufi song, well, transcends the New Age art-rock Michael Brook vouchsafes him ("The Game," "Taa Deem") (Grade - *)