translate English to German: Vilayat loved his motor cars, but at the same time he unmasked technocrats and philistines, those imprisoned in their small minded egoism. And even though his music goes back to a culture of ‘Khans´ who favoured masculine games on horseback, getting the male adrenalin going and founding empires on it, he refused to define his personality via tradition, religion (´Music is my religion´) or his motor car.
An die Wand gedudelt und ausgelaugt, begann ich mich gegen die Tour de Force und die Schau-was-ich-alles-kann-Kraftmeiereien eines Ravi Shankar oder Imrat Khan zu wehren.