Beyond lyrical forms, instrumental Sufi music plays a vital role in spiritual gatherings known as Sama. The haunting melodies of the ney flute in Turkish traditions or the rubab in Central Asia ...

Kashmir's Sufi Music Lovers Are Sticking With the Audio Cassette SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the ...

"Qawaali music," explains Bobby Friction, "Is the physical and musical manifestation of the Sufi religious tradition in South Asia. Powerful, poetic & transcendent, its hypnotic rhythms and ...

He’s part of a small, dedicated community that believes cassette tapes are the best way to listen to and archive the Sufi music of Indian-controlled Kashmir, where music inspired by local and central ...