Name: Yol Bolsin
Brand: Sevara Nazarkhan

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CDRWG109

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-07-01

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Sevara Nazarkhan

Genre GB

Rest of World

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Real World

The history of a lone woman singing and accompanying herself on a string instrument is ancient. It is a familiar image in manuscripts and miniature paintings from Iran, Turkey, the Middle East, and China— the countries and regions of the legendary Silk Route. In places that evoke the exotic, like Bukhara and Samarkand —the cities of modern day Uzbekistan— music was advanced and courtly. A female singer and instrumentalist epitomised high culture.

Sevara Nazarkhan —an Uzbek singer, songwriter and musician— is a direct descendent of this past. Her instrument is the doutar – a 15th century, two-stringed, Central Asian lute that is plucked not strummed. For this album’s doutar-playing, however, Sevara borrows the hands and experience of Toir Kuziyev, a master of instrumentation. In Toir’s hands and Sevara’s voice an ancient tradition breathes.

Yol Bolsin

Music GB