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Call me a philistine, I first heard qawwali on a Jeff Buckley album I stole from my housemate’s bedroom where he proudly exclaimes ‘Nusrat, he’s my Elvis’ before thrashing out the song ‘Yeh Jo Halka, Halka Saroor Hai’ in Urdu to hardy, drunken revellers in a New York bar.