JOSHUA TREE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2006 - JOSHUA TREE, CALIFORNIA (REVIEW) | FLY

The sunset takes your breath away as the sky slowly fills with glittering stars. A couple of bands stood out as musical highlights.

KINKY
From Monterrey, Mexico come the kings of alternative dance rock, Kinky. With their albums produced by UK’s Chris Allison, they have enough international appeal to make us want to break through Bush’s border patrol and sneak across the border in the opposite direction to set up residence in Mexico! Kinky breaks open your tired clichéd ideas of genre or what is important in music, and takes it all several nacho notches further. Dance pop with techno playfulness and the heart and soul of blazing guitar, singing and hip shaking all fit together effortlessly.

The all-out highlight was ‘Mas’. If you hear it once, anything else you hear just won’t qualify as a dance song. The chorus had us all yelling along ‘Mas y mas’ at the top of our lungs, crackling with the pounding beats, laced with layers of Latin congas. The sound of danger and excitement in the beat, the anthemlike chorus, rocking dance, hip-hop funk forget worrying about what to call it, just get your pear off the wall and start shaking it like your life depends on it! I can forgive the first chords are straight from Ray Charles’ ‘What’d I Say’. In case anybody there was resisting singing along, they broke into a pumped up version of ‘Oye Como Va’ by Santana with guitars blazing through the spicy beats. ‘Anorexic Freaks’ is a witty funkified sweaty dancing swirling party. Your hair will get mussed.

‘Field Goal’ has mischievous jazzy atmospheres with groovin keyboards you would have to be seriously stoned to be able to stand still through. ‘Sol’ is rock and roll straight up with a more traditional Latin chorus. Pop officially now has new meaning instead of dried up all life sucked out of what used to be authentic rock, now pop means we can have glittering Latin pounding fun complete with enough passion and fire to fry huevos rancheros on a rock.

GROUNDATION
In a word we’re Jammin’! How else to describe seeing, hearing and grooving with Groundation under the desert sun. This jazzy, soulful, roots reggae band of eight musicians from Northern California is keeping the one world message of reggae alive. The lead singer, Harrison Stafford, doesn’t just talk the talk but teaches it too. A professor from Sonoma State, he teaches the school’s first History of Reggae class. When it comes to rubbin’ the dub, this band knows their beats too. They are skilled musicians who, for a band of eight, produce a clean jazz-reggae sound.

With his powerful, expressive voice I am sure no one sleeps through that class and just imagine the after school jams! The lyrics remind me that things are far from perfect in this world but each of us has the power to change it for the better in our little part of the planet. These are no Bob Marley imitators. With their own unique sound they continue the thread of hope for a better day that is woven through his music. A few minutes of dancing and partying with Groundation makes you believe it’s real. I hope ya like jammin’ too!

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Niazi Brothers ( Abdullah Manzoor Niazi Qawal & Makhmoor Ahmed Niazi Qawwal) belongs to a family of Delhi Gharana. Mr. Abdullah Manzoor Niazi was born at Karachi on 1960. The father of Niazi Brothers Mr. Haji Manzoor Ahmed Khan Niazi was born in Delhi, India in 1922. He is a renowned Qawal of Indo-Pak. The Grand-Father of him was Haji Mir Qutub bukhsh famous as Tan Ras Khan Sahib Rehmatullah, who was the teacher of the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar. He was awarded the title of Tan Ras and Nawab Atamad ul Mulk by the said Emperor, which is indicated by history. He was also legal advisor to the emperor.
Hazrat Amir Khusroo Rehmatullah who was the founder of Qawali and other arts, and also who had arranged a group of 12 children which was proved by history as Qawal Bachay. The leader of this Qawal Bachay was Mian Samat Nizami Rehmatullah and he was special student of Hazrat Amir Khusroo and he was the Grand-Father of Mian Tan Ras Khan Sahib Rehmatullah from him the Gharana of Singer started, which is reputed “by history as Delhi Gharana, except this there is no other Singer of Delhi Gharana in the universe”.
Niazi Brother’s father Haji Ahmed Khan Niazi Sahib is the only Qawal of Indo-Pak Subcontinent who first in the fourteen century history in 1970 at Madina Tayeba proved through discussion that Music is right in Islam and by the permission of Imam Madina Abdul Aziz Bin Saleh he at Madina performed publicly infront of Mazare Aqdas with the Musical instruments and sing Qawali in Arabia style and the public enjoyed this.
Quaid-e-Azam gave him the title of Bulbal-e-Deccan at Bombay on 1937. Haji Manzoor Niazi Sahib was granted Civil and Military Award in Different periods. The main titles are Malik-ul-qawal, Haseen Ragi, Shahinshah-e-Qawali, Pasban-e-Qawali, Raees-e-Qawali, Bulbul-e-Bagh-e-Nizam-o-Sabir, Manzoor Ahmed Khan Niazi for a long period remained with the Darbar of Nizam Hyderabad Deccan and he was given special considration by Nizam Hyderabad.
23 march 2006 in karachi given to governer karachi by haji manzoor niazi qawwal to best achivement to award to long time qawwali in pakistan( tamhgha_e_imtiaz)
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[well that clears that up then:) Ed.]

hello sir,
hi i am franky fernandes the manager of khan brothers qawalli group.
based in london.our group is owned and managed by ustad haji ameer khan who is son of late ustad latafat hussain khan who comes from a classical gharana and also shown his magic of music in bollywood movies before partition.you can learn more about our group on www.kbartpromotions.com and you can contact mr haji ameer khan on 07956407487 or 07984617153 or email us at info@qawalli.co.uk

franky fernandes

i know one of the best qawwal in history of qawwali that is Ustad farid ayaz qawwal
Ustad fariduddin ayaz al-hussaini @ farid ayaz qawal belongs to the best known gharana of qawwali, namely; ” qawwal bachon ka gharana ” of delhi. This gharana, approzimately 705 years old, was stafted by saamat bin lbrahim, the principal student of hazrat amir khusrau. The eminent Gharana has produced famous ustads like the late ustad tanrus khan, court musician and tutor in classical music of bahadur shah zafar the last mughul emperor. In the present generation of this Gharana are farid ayaz al-Hussein and party, nationally and internationally acclaimed as one of the best qawwals of the sub-continent.

Farid ayaz started his training in classical music and await at a tender age under the rigorous and critical tutelage of his late father ustad raziuddin khan, who himself was an outstanding classical musician and away and a recipient of the president’s pride of performance medal and was best owed by many other honors by the government of Pakistan. Farid ayaz are an accomplished musician in the genre of classical music and wait in the traditional classical music. He has been performing professionally for the last 30 years, and not only has performed extensively at the national and international level but has neon a cultural representative for Pakistan at numerous Pakistani missions abroad. Farid ayaz and party have performed in the united kingdom, USA, france, Germany, ITALY, Holland, Portugal, Austria, India, Kenya, Nepal, Zimbabwe, bangle desh, croatia, tukey morocco Greece, Egypt, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Belgium iran UAE Saudi Arabia Jordan and many others.

Farid ayaz has total mastery over various genres of classical music, such as, dhrupad, khayal, tarana, thumri and dadra which he blinds beautifully during his performances of qawwali. His mastery over classical music was acclaimed at the all Pakistan music conference annual festival (feb 2005 ), where he was invited to perform as a classical singer and not a qawwal.

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