Sufi Songs from Pakistan

This year's inaugural Tokyo Festival of Intangible Culture seems to have scheduled its most interesting concerts first. Following on from the Carnival Music from Haiti gigs at Sogetsu Hall a week before, the action moves to the Bunkamura for an evening with twentysomething Pakistani singer Sanam Marvi. One of the prime exponents of Sufi songs, Marvi will be accompanied by a group of top-flight classical musicians from Pakistan, led by alghoza (double flute) player Akbal Khamisu Khan.