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01 May 2005 

May 26, 27, 28 — Sevara Nazarkhan is to perform three concerts at the Zarafshan Concert Hall (Tashkent). The performance will include Sevara’s new and “old-best” songs, including “Erkalab”, “Netai”, and “Bu Sevgi”. Start at 19:00.

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Sevara’s 1997 album ’[Sen]‘ - which means ”you” in Uzbekistan - is an album you’ve always wanted: a looping, bright, rhythm-laden jewel highlighted by traditional instrumentation.

Silk Road in Central Asia - legend conjures up an ancient route to a world of fabulous architectural treasure and the music that has entertained kings at court and the people in the community celebrations. Music played by the image of a lone woman singing and clicking on an old lute, an ethereal beauty with dark hair falling light and a voice from another world. A woman not unlike Sevara Nazarkhan - if she was around a few hundred years ago, that is. She is a direct descendant of the past. Her instrument is the doutar - a fifteenth century, two-stringed, lute of Central Asia that is not strummed but rather plucked. When the music was in the hands of shepherds and lonely wayfarers, the strings were made of animal intestines. As the Silk Road became more established and dried fruits and animal skins that Marco Polo carried were exchanged for gems and Chinese porcelain, the strings were woven in silk. The doutar has a warm and sweet. In the hands and voice of Sevara - an ancient tradition breathes.

Today their critically acclaimed albums, which won a World Music Award for the BBC in 2004 and toured internationally, have made Sevara not only into one of the most timeless and talented singers in Asia, but into a pop diva for the future.