Nooran Sisters Sufi Bhajan (VIDEO)

[PADA: Sounds like a kirtan? These songs are called "qawwali" and are meant to evoke loving feelings towards the Supreme Being. I kinda like it. Thanks to V Dasa for sending me this link. 

I do recall my once working as a security guard where I was at an African America "religious revival concert." Those folks were singing very loudly, stomping their feet, and glorifying God, and I was stomping and singing along with them. 

It is sometimes a good idea to see that other people are experiencing a relationship with God in their own religion, and there is no actual monopoly held by any particular group. Anyway, check them out. ys pd]     

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As a musical genre, qawwali is closely linked to the Hindustani classical tradition of the Asian subcontinent. It draws from the same pool of melodic frameworks (ragas) and metric patterns (talas) as classical India music, and it uses a formal structure similar to that of the khayal song genre. 

Like khayal, qawwali performances feature a mixture of evenly paced metric refrains and rhythmically flexible solo vocal improvisations, which make extensive use of melisma (singing of more than one pitch to a single syllable). 

Moreover, a significant portion of any performance is built from traditional solomization syllables (syllables assigned to specific pitches or sounds) and other vocables (syllables without linguistic meaning). It is during the improvisational sections—particularly within fast-paced passages called tarana—that the lead qawwal engages with and responds to the listeners, elevating them to a state of spiritual ecstacy through ever intensifying, accelerating repetitions of especially evocative phrases. This interaction between the lead singer and the audience is central to any successful qawwali performance.