Sevara Nazarkhan - Yol Bolsin on CD

Description

This 2003 record served as the introduction to the wider world of the music of this Uzbekistan songbird. The album's title translates as Where Are You Going?, a thoroughly apt name for a revisiting of the folk and peasant songs of a country struggling for cultural identity after its break from the Soviet Union at the start of the '90s. But this is no ethnomusicological, trapped-in-amber recording. Sevara is a thoroughly modern woman; back home in Tashkent, she's a huge pop star. Here, with the assistance of production ace Hector Zazou, she offers a handsome digitisation of this old-as-the-hills music.