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  "ar": "Night Song ⁦(أغنية الليل)⁩",
  "en": "Night Song (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan album)",
  "ur": "نائٹ سونگ"
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  "ar": "ألبوم مشترك لنصرت فتح علي خان ومايكل بروك، سُجّل في استوديوهات ريل وورلد سنة 1995 وصدر في 20 فبراير 1996، وهو آخر ألبوم له عن الشركة في حياته؛ يجمع صوت القوالي بإنتاج بروك المحيطي وبموسيقيين سنغاليين، وبلغ المرتبة الرابعة في قائمة بيلبورد للموسيقى العالمية، ورُشّح لجائزة غرامي لأفضل ألبوم موسيقى عالمية سنة 1997.",
  "en": "A joint album of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook, recorded at Real World Studios in 1995 and released on 20 February 1996, his last album on the label in his lifetime; it joins qawwali vocals to Brook's ambient production and Senegalese musicians, reached number 4 on Billboard's world albums chart and was nominated for the 1997 Grammy for Best World Music Album.",
  "ur": "نصرت فتح علی خان اور مائیکل بروک کا مشترکہ البم، جو 1995 میں ریئل ورلڈ اسٹوڈیوز میں ریکارڈ ہوا اور 20 فروری 1996 کو جاری ہوا؛ یہ بل بورڈ کے عالمی البمز میں چوتھے نمبر تک پہنچا اور 1997 کے گریمی کے لیے نامزد ہوا۔"
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Night Song (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan album)' (revision 1375773464 of 20 September 2026, citing Sound on Sound, Billboard, the Los Angeles Times, Mojo, AllMusic and others) and Wikidata Q17012470 (revision 2509478732), read in Chrome on the founder's Mac on 7 November 2026. No lyric lines are quoted",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "«Night Song» ألبوم مشترك للمغني الباكستاني [[person/nusrat-fatih-ali-khan|نصرت فتح علي خان]] والموسيقي الكندي مايكل بروك، سُجّل سنة 1995 في استوديوهات ريل وورلد بمقاطعة ويلتشير وصدر في 20 فبراير 1996 عن [[listing/real-world-records|ريل وورلد ريكوردز]]، وهو آخر ألبوم أصدرته له الشركة في حياته. {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en} {cite:wikidata-night-song-nusrat}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "صناعته",
     "markdown": "اكتشف بروك في تجربة [[work/mustt-mustt-nusrat|«مست مست»]] أن نصرت يبلغ ذروته حين يأخذ وقته في الارتجال، فاختار طريقة جديدة: يسجّل نصرت ارتجالاته على أشرطة متعددة المسارات، يبلغ بعضها ساعة، ثم يختار بروك أفضل مقاطعها ويبني عليها المقطوعة جزءا جزءا، دون بنية مسبقة يقصدها، في عمل يدوي سبق التحرير الرقمي السهل؛ ووصفته مجلة ساوند أون ساوند بأنه «كابوس تقني». {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en} وشارك فيه موسيقيون من فرقة بابا مال السنغالية، منهم عازف الكورا كاودينغ سيسوخو، ومعهم الطبلة لديلدار حسين والهارمونيوم لفرخ فتح علي خان. {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "موسيقاه",
     "markdown": "يجمع الألبوم صوت القوالي بموسيقى بروك المحيطية الإلكترونية، ويُعد من أكثر أعمال نصرت تجريبا؛ وكتب الاثنان أغانيه معا، وفيها كلمات عن العلاقات و«النقاء الروحي»، وقالت مجلة كونسيومابل أونلاين إنهما يسعيان بوضوح إلى أن يقودا السامع إلى نشوة روحية خالصة. {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الاستقبال والجوائز",
     "markdown": "بلغ المرتبة الرابعة في [[award/billboard-world-albums|قائمة بيلبورد للموسيقى العالمية]] والخامسة والستين في [[award/uk-albums-chart|القائمة البريطانية]]، وعدّته موجو الحادي والعشرين بين ألبومات 1996، ورُشّح لجائزة [[award/grammy-awards|غرامي]] لأفضل ألبوم موسيقى عالمية في الحفل التاسع والثلاثين سنة 1997، وذهبت الجائزة إلى ألبوم «Santiago» لفرقة ذا تشيفتنز. {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en} وأُعيد مزج خمس من مقطوعاته في [[work/star-rise-nusrat|«Star Rise»]] سنة 1997، وأعادت الشركة إصداره في 4 مايو 2015. {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- مقالة ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية «Night Song ⁦(Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan album)⁩»، المراجعة 1375773464 في 20 سبتمبر 2026. {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en}\n- عنصر ويكي بيانات Q17012470. {cite:wikidata-night-song-nusrat}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Night Song is a joint album of the Pakistani singer [[person/nusrat-fatih-ali-khan|Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]] and the Canadian musician Michael Brook, recorded in 1995 at Real World Studios in Wiltshire and released on 20 February 1996 by [[listing/real-world-records|Real World Records]], the last album the label released in his lifetime. {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en} {cite:wikidata-night-song-nusrat}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "How it was made",
     "markdown": "Having found on [[work/mustt-mustt-nusrat|Mustt Mustt]] that Khan soared highest when given time to improvise, Brook chose a new method: Khan recorded improvisations, some an hour long, onto multitrack tape, and Brook chose the best sections and built each track part by part, with no structure to aim for, a manual process that predated easy digital editing; Sound on Sound called it a \"technological nightmare\". {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en} Musicians from Baaba Maal's Senegalese band took part, among them the kora player Kauwding Cissokho, with Dildar Hussain on tabla and Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan on harmonium. {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The music",
     "markdown": "The album joins qawwali vocals to Brook's electronic ambient music and is often counted Khan's most experimental; the two wrote the songs together, with lyrics about relationships and \"spiritual cleanliness\", and Consumable Online wrote that they make a pronounced effort to lead the listener towards pure spiritual ecstasy. {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Reception and honours",
     "markdown": "It reached number 4 on [[award/billboard-world-albums|Billboard's world albums chart]] and 65 on the [[award/uk-albums-chart|UK Albums Chart]], Mojo ranked it 21st among the albums of 1996, and it was nominated for the [[award/grammy-awards|Grammy]] for Best World Music Album at the 39th ceremony in 1997, which went to the Chieftains' Santiago. {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en} Five of its tracks were remixed on [[work/star-rise-nusrat|Star Rise]] in 1997, and the label reissued it on 4 May 2015. {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- English Wikipedia, 'Night Song (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan album)', revision 1375773464 of 20 September 2026. {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en}\n- Wikidata item Q17012470. {cite:wikidata-night-song-nusrat}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "«نائٹ سونگ» [[person/nusrat-fatih-ali-khan|نصرت فتح علی خان]] اور مائیکل بروک کا مشترکہ البم ہے، جو 1995 میں ریکارڈ ہوا اور 20 فروری 1996 کو [[listing/real-world-records|ریئل ورلڈ]] سے جاری ہوا؛ یہ نصرت کی زندگی میں اس لیبل سے ان کا آخری البم تھا۔ {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en} {cite:wikidata-night-song-nusrat}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تیاری اور موسیقی",
     "markdown": "بروک نے نصرت کی گھنٹوں طویل ارتجالی ریکارڈنگز میں سے بہترین حصے چن کر ہر ٹریک تیار کیا؛ البم قوالی کو ایمبیئنٹ موسیقی اور سینیگالی سازندوں سے ملاتا ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "پذیرائی",
     "markdown": "یہ [[award/billboard-world-albums|بل بورڈ ورلڈ البمز]] میں چوتھے نمبر تک پہنچا اور 1997 میں بہترین عالمی موسیقی البم کے [[award/grammy-awards|گریمی]] کے لیے نامزد ہوا۔ {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مراجع",
     "markdown": "- انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا، نظرِ ثانی 1375773464۔ {cite:wikipedia-night-song-nusrat-en}\n- ویکی ڈیٹا Q17012470۔ {cite:wikidata-night-song-nusrat}"
    }
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