Asia
Ustad Saami
God is Not a Terrorist (Glitterbeat Records)
Singing an ancient, pre-Islamic microtonal music in multiple languages, the 75-year-old Pakistani vocalist is the latest discovery of eclectic world music producer Ian Brennan. Together they’ve fashioned an hypnotic album of shimmering vocal drones, like a more intense, raw and dissonant version of the qawwali music popularised by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. A Top of the World in #146.