Kashmir's Sufi Music Lovers Are Sticking With the Audio Cassette SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the ...

Preparations are in full swing for Sufi music festival “Jahan-e-Khusrau" at Sunder Nursery. The festival showcases the ...

He’s part of a small, dedicated community that believes cassette tapes are the best way to listen to and archive the Sufi music of Indian-controlled Kashmir, where music inspired by local and central ...

Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine whirrs to life. As the Kashmiri tailor stitches, the machine crackles for a moment ...

Shaksaaz, a tailor in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar, inherited his passion for local Sufi music from his grandfather along with a meticulously preserved collection of audio cassette tapes from the ...

Shaksaaz, a tailor in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar, inherited his passion for local Sufi music from his grandfather along with a meticulously preserved collection of audio cassette tapes from the ...

Ben Folds, Livingston Taylor part of Hartford Symphony’s 2025 Talcott Mountain Music Festival Shaksaaz, a tailor in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar, inherited his passion for local Sufi music from ...

1/2. In the first of two award-winning programmes, first broadcast on BBC World Service, Jameela Siddiqi attends the all-night festival at the cradle of Sufi music, the Nizamuddin shrine in Delhi.

Riaz Ali Qadri and Bhai Ghulam Muhammad Chand are music teachers. They all agreed that various versions of Sufi and classical music could vary but a blend of their voices with beats is something ...