484 music Album Review for Contemporary Folk page 1::
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Artist Sevara Nazarkhan Album Review
Yol Bolsin Label: Real World
Genre: Contemporary Folk
Origin: Uzbekistan
Format: Music CD
Wiki article
Yol Bolsin is an intriguing new export traveling west on Asia's Silk Road. The debut of 25-year-old Uzbeki singer and doutar player Sevara Nazarkhan, the album combines the rich musical tradition of her Central Asian country and fuses it with the modern sounds of noted French-Algerian producer Hector Zazou. Like much of the best stuff to come out on Real World, the combination here is timely and timeless, with Zazou's modern sounds simply providing a tasteful backing to the plucked, lutelike lines of Nazarkhan and fellow doutar player Toir Kuziyev. A pop star in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan, Nazarkhan has a soaring, conservatory-trained voice that conveys myriad emotions with range and an intonation enriched with deft shading.
Artist Sevara Nazarkhan Album Review
Sen Label: Emd Int'l
Genre: Contemporary Folk
Origin: Uzbekistan
Format: Music CD, Import
Wiki article
Sen is a looping, shimmering, beats-laden gem that will rightly be acclaimed as one of the great world music releases of the year. This Uzbek singer is poised to become a global diva; electronica blended with Silk Route folk and dreamy vocals
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Artist Yulduz Usmanova Album Review
The Best of Yulduz Usmanova Label: Blue Flame
Genre: Contemporary Folk
Origin: Uzbekistan
Format: Music CD
Wiki article
Yulduz Usmanova is from Uzbekistan, along the fabled Silk Road trade route in Central Asia. Her singing is a fusion of intricately coded styles, which includes borrowings from Turkish and Persian rhythms and scales. She is accompanied by the tanbur (a long-necked lute) and the doira (a hand drum) but often wields a wicked backbeat and sees no reason why she should not use the latest electronic percussion and synthesizers. She is a folk singer and a club diva, a Moslem woman who wears miniskirts and was elected to her country's parliament, and an international figure who resides in a rural area outside of Tashkent.
