The Qawwali Capsules featuring Qawwals Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad

The Qawwali Capsules, where the practitioners speak, is an initiative by Manjari Chaturvedi wherein the practitioners themselves speak about their performance art, their lives, their association with the spiritual art they perform. This is focussed on smaller town musicians who practice their art amidst the people in an organic, non commercial set up. Their art form "Qawwali" is sung as a means of spiritual elevation a music form always associated with the Sufi traditions in India and Pakistan. This is an attempt by the Sufi Kathak Foundation to document the traditions as they exist at the shrines itself.

This video capsule features, Qawwal duo, Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad from Pakistan. He belongs to the Qawwal Bachchon Ka Gharana of Delhi and are the flag-bearers of this school of music (gharana), which is also known as the Delhi gharana. Fareed Ayaz is the son of the famous Late Munshi Raziuddin Ahmed Khan who was a renowned Pakistani Qawwali, a classical musician and a researcher and scholar of music. Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad speak on the importance of universal spiritual message of Qawwali, they speak of the oraganic ways of training, and the poetic nuances explored in the form through the interesting means of telling a story during the performance itself.