Travel Tracks is on the move! Just a few days ago, I arrived in Rome, where I’ll be staying with an Italian family for three months. On my way to the Eternal City, I visited some old Soviet stomping grounds: Kiev, Ukraine, and Prague, Czech Republic. The cold of Kiev forced us indoors most nights, […]
Asian music
Can’t Sleep? Try a Little Night Song
Night Song is the second collaboration between Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the late master of Pakistani qawwali (devotional) music, and Canadian guitarist Michael Brook. Before his death in August 1997 from kidney and liver failure, Khan was hailed as an inspiration by numerous Western musicians, including American singer Jeff Buckley, who called him “my Elvis.†[…]