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Welcome to Riyaaz Qawwali
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About Riyaaz Qawwali
The art of qawwali, as with most of the great
Asian musical and literary traditions, is
transmitted orally ... The vehicle of music is
used to bring one closer to the experience of the
inner truth. Riyaaz qawwal will dwell on certain
words to give them a wider context creating great
depth in the apparently simple language ... He
will often repeat a phrase or sentence indicating
both the obvious and hidden content by
emphasizing or ruminating upon particular words
and syllables, taking the audience into the
discovery of hitherto obscure meanings. Thus,
mundane objects are embued with deeper meaning
a spinning wheel becomes the wheel of life.
Qawwali is a venerable yet refreshing musical
tradition that dates back to the late 13th
century. The word qaul refers to an "utterance
(of the prophet)" and the first Qawwals (qawwali
artists) repeated these qauls by making them the
subject matter of their qawwalis.
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Qawwali is a venerable yet refreshing musical
tradition that dates back to the late 13th
century. The word qaul refers to an "utterance
(of the prophet)" and the first Qawwals (qawwali
artists) repeated these qauls by making them the
subject matter of their qawwalis.
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Famous among such artists was a man named Amir
Khusro. More than 700 years since Amir Khusro
composed the famous qaul Man Kunto Maula,
Riyaaz Qawwali envisions modernizing the genre
for today's audience, while staying true to the
ethos of qawwali. In this regard Riyaaz idolizes
Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan who took
semi-classical qawwali to new heights of
popularity in both the Hindustani Shastriya
Sangeet as well as the World Music circles
through the 1980s and the 1990s. Riyaaz Qawwali
hopes to take this niche tradition of Sufiana
Kalaam and expand its reaches by introducing
newer poets to traditional compositions and
modernizing the sound while keeping authentic
elements, all in efforts to reach new audiences.
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The songs which constitute the qawwali repertoire
are mostly in Urdu and Punjabi (almost equally
divided between the two), although there are
several songs in Brajbhasha and Persian. The
poetry is implicitly understood to be spiritual
in its meaning and the central themes are love,
devotion and longing (for the Divine). Qawwalis
are classified by their content into several
categories Hamd - praise for Allah Naat -
praise of the Prophet Muhammad Manqabat - praise
of either Imam Ali or one of the Sufi saints
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Marsiya - dirge lamenting the death of much of
Imam Husayn's family in the Battle of
Karbala Kafi - devotional poem themed around
heroic and great romantic tales from the
folkfore, often used as a metaphor for mystical
truths, and spiritual longing characterized by a
musical refrain that sets a mood much like in a
Ghazal Munadjaat - song where the singer
displays his gratefulness to Allah through a
variety of linguistic techniques Ghazal - poetic
form consisting of rhyming couplets and a
refrain. Although the ghazal is most prominently
a form of Persian and Urdu poetry, today it is
found in the poetry of many languages.
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Bhajan - generalized religious devotional song
integral but not limited to the bhakti
movement Shabad - hymn or paragraph or sections
that appear in The Guru Granth Sahib (holy text
of Sikhism)
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Contact Us
16910 Hidden Treasure, Friendswood TX 77546
Zip 77546 Phone Number 832-875-4139
Website http//www.riyaazqawwali.com/
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