Real World Records

Real World Records is a British record label specialising in world music, founded in 1989 by the English musician Peter Gabriel with the original members of WOMAD, based at Box in Wiltshire; most of its releases are recorded at Real World Studios, founded the same year. ^{1 2}

The label set out to give musicians from around the world access to modern studios and audiences beyond their regions, and to turn the musical relationships formed at WOMAD festivals into new recordings; its first five albums included Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's Shahen-Shah. ¹ By 1999 it had sold over 3 million records across 90 albums, and by 2015 it had passed 200 albums. ¹

It released Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's collaborations with Michael Brook, Mustt Mustt, Night Song and Star Rise, his The Last Prophet (1994) and the posthumous Dust to Gold. ^{1 3} The source says nothing of its founders' faith, and the museum infers none.

• English Wikipedia, 'Real World Records', revision 1381597576 of 23 October 2026. ¹
• Wikidata item Q325866. ²
• English Wikipedia article on Dust to Gold. ³