''Mustt Mustt'' is the first

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fusion album collaboration between singer

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and guitarist and producer

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, although the album itself is credited purely to Khan. It was rock musician

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who suggested that Brook and Khan work together. It was released in 1990 on Gabriel's Real World Records label. This album, along with '' Night Song'', contributed tracks to the remix album '' Star Rise''. The song "Mustt Mustt" was

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ed by British

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group

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and was a club hit in the United Kingdom, being the first song in

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to reach the British charts. It was later used in an advert for

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. Real World Records, the label which released the album, claimed that the album sold over 600,000 copies outside the Indian subcontinent.

Reception

''Mustt Mustt'' was voted one of the Top 100 albums of the 1990s by American music magazine ''

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''. It reached No. 14 on the ''

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'' Top World Music Albums chart in 1991. David Lynch of ''

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'' called the album a "seminal fusion". British musician

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said that it "changed the face of British music forever". It was considered a "secularized" or "Western" version of Khan's other Qawwali albums.

Track listing

# "Mustt Mustt (Lost in His Work)" (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) – 5:15 # "Nothing Without You (Tery Bina)" (Khan) – 5:04 # "Tracery" (Michael Brook) – 4:48 # "The Game" (Robert Ahwai, Brook, Khan) – 4:59 # "Taa Deem" (Khan) – 4:47 # "Sea of Vapours" (Brook) – 3:55 # "Fault Lines" (Brook) – 4:13 # "Tana Dery Na" (Brook, Khan) – 4:23 # "Shadow" (Khan) – 3:04 # "Avenue" (Brook) – 4:51 # "Mustt Mustt (

remix)" (Khan) – 4:24

Charts

References

{{Authority control 1990 collaborative albums Michael Brook albums Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan albums Real World Records albums