Mustt Mustt

Mustt Mustt is the first qawwali fusion album of the Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with the guitarist and producer Michael Brook, though credited to Khan alone; the rock musician Peter Gabriel suggested they work together, and it came out on his Real World Records on 12 November 1990. ^{1 2}

The British trip-hop group Massive Attack remixed 'Mustt Mustt' into a UK club hit, the first song in Urdu to reach the British charts, and it was later used in a Coca-Cola advertisement. ¹ The label claims the album sold over 600,000 copies outside the Indian subcontinent, a figure attributed to it. ¹

Alternative Press voted it one of the top 100 albums of the 1990s; it reached number 14 on Billboard's world albums chart in 1991; David Lynch of The Austin Chronicle called it a "seminal fusion", and Nitin Sawhney said it "changed the face of British music forever". ¹ It was also seen as a "secularized" or "Western" version of Khan's other qawwali albums. ¹

Eleven tracks, among them Khan's 'Mustt Mustt', 'Nothing Without You (Tery Bina)', 'Taa Deem' and 'Shadow', Brook's instrumentals such as 'Tracery' and 'Sea of Vapours', and the Massive Attack remix to close; it runs 49 minutes. ¹ Tracks from it and from Night Song went into the remix album Star Rise. ¹

• English Wikipedia, 'Mustt Mustt', revision 1369390245 of 14 August 2026. ¹
• Wikidata item Q6943522. ²