{"id":5455,"date":"2023-07-20T15:54:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=5455"},"modified":"2023-07-20T15:54:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:54:28","slug":"ustad-noor-bakhsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/07\/20\/ustad-noor-bakhsh\/","title":{"rendered":"Ustad Noor Bakhsh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2023\/jul\/19\/totally-full-of-spiritual-energy-ustad-noor-bakhsh-the-pakistani-musician-discovered-on-the-side-of-a-road?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Sayida Ansari, The Guardian, \u2018Totally full of spiritual energy\u2019: Ustad Noor Bakhsh, the Pakistani musician going global in his 70s, 19 July 2023<\/a> &#8220;In clips of sunset jams near the Shadi Kaur creek, Bakhsh sits cross-legged with his electric benju \u2013 his right hand expertly plucking strings on the base, his left moving rapidly up and down the keys on the neck \u2013 playing everything from Balochi compositions to Bollywood favourites, flanked by two damburag players, each holding a long-necked lute and keeping the beat.&#8221;  Brilliant. Facebook helped in boosting Bakhsh&#8217;s profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Tor Sor - Ustad Noor Bakhsh\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Mcg0OJILb8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Ustad Noor Bakhsh | Boiler Room: Pakistan\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rATItxCSfew?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sayida Ansari, The Guardian, \u2018Totally full of spiritual energy\u2019: Ustad Noor Bakhsh, the Pakistani musician going global in his 70s, 19 July 2023 &#8220;In clips of sunset jams near the Shadi Kaur creek, Bakhsh sits cross-legged with his electric benju \u2013 his right hand expertly plucking strings on the base, his left moving rapidly up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570,18,192],"tags":[571,146],"class_list":["post-5455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-balouchistan","category-music","category-pakistan-internet-2","tag-balouchistan","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5456,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions\/5456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}