Thursday, September 30, 2004  

Sevara Nazarkhan

Sevara Nazarkhan, "Yol Bolsin (Where Are You Going?)"
Sevara Nazarkhan, "Moghulchai Navo (Moghul Melody)"
from Yol Bolsin (Real World, 2002)
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Nazarkhan opened for Peter Gabriel last year, and she would join him to do Youssou N'Dour's part on "In Your Eyes" (would have loved to hear her do Tony Levin's basso profundo bit, perhaps while wearing a big-ass 'stache and 1980s trenchcoat---w/collar up, natch). You can watch Nazarkhan do "In Your Eyes" on Petey's Growing Up Live DVD.
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Buy the download for her self-produced Gozal Dema album (pretty much impossible to find otherwise) and two tracks from her forthcoming Uzbekistan-only CD, Netay, including the OG version of "Mogulchai Navo," before Hector Zazou & the Real World Crew fed it through the computer (not that I mind at all, hence the posting). In fact, there's a third version of "Mogulchai Navo" floating around the universe, and I wish I could find it because I think that's the video I saw on Link TV. It has something of a hip-hop beat + back-up singers, and Nazarkhan is doing the coolest step: she barely twists up her long silk dress and just leans back, leans back. Fat Joe should rope her in for a remix.
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Official site
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Real World page, where you can see the video for "Adolat Tanovari" & "Yol Bolsin"
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Buy the Yol Bolsin CD
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BBC Radio 3 Award
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Live set on BBC
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Live at WOMEX
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BBC review of Yol Bolsin
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NPR profile
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel interview

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