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	Dutar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		The dutar (also dotar or doutar) is a traditional long-necked two-stringed lute found in Central Asia.
		Its name comes from the Persian word for "two stings", dotar (do "two", tar "string"), although the Herati dutar of Afghanistan has 14 strings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dotar (160 words)

	World Connection Agency
		At the notoriously traditional and rigorous Tashkent State Conservatory, Nazarkhan studied the doutar, an ancient Central Asian instrument that resembles a lute, and mastered the region's maqams, scales and musical patterns that predate Uzbekistan itself by centuries.
		She rekindled the old Silk Road tradition of women troubadours whose songs of love and adventure kept traders' minds off their arduous travels as they hauled spices, silk and other treasures by cart and camel across the desert.
		Nazarkhan believes her synthesis of music is a way to introduce Western ears to a rich tradition of music that, like the Silk Road where it was born, mixes elements of the Middle East with those of Eastern Asia.
	www.c2entertainment.nl /web/act.php?id=78 (681 words)

	Guardian \| X-Bloc: Eastern Divas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		All she had to do was repeat that sound on stage - but she had other ideas.
		A striking figure, with her long fl hair and purple robe, she started well, showing off her cool, easy voice as she sang first unaccompanied and then to the twanging, stirring backing of a doutar, the long-necked Asian lute.
		There were sections featuring what sounded like an Asian Bo Diddley riff on the doutar, and awkward passages in which she tried unsuccessfully to act like some western pop/soul star, with just the occasional echo of the more successful songs on the album.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4678898-110430,00.html (475 words)

	Sevara Nazarkhan / Yol Bolsin / cdRoots
		2003 -- Debut of 25-year-old Uzbek singer Sevara Nazarkhan and doutar player Toir Kuziyev, combining the rich musical tradition of her Central Asian country with the modern sounds of noted French-Algerian producer Hector Zazou.
		But while it is contemplative, its not soporific - there's a groove to most of the tracks, ingeniously woven from Uzbek instruments.
		Based on a song dating back to the days of the brigands who preyed on Silk Road travellers, now its message is more benign; its melodies are played by Toir Kuziyev on various string instruments -Turkish saz and Arabic oud, as well as doutar.
	www.cdroots.com /rw-yol.html (454 words)

	vivamusic.com \| events \| up close & personal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Besides a short explanation about coffee and goodie bags for random members of the crowd who answered trivia coffee questions correctly, Singapore was also given a prelude of the exotic music they would be able to appreciate at the festival.
		First up was Sevara Nazarkhan from Uzebekistan with the doutar, a popular instrument in Central Asia originating from the 15th Century.
		Her expertise in playing the instrument as well as a superb vocalist has brought her much limelight in her homeland and her neighbouring countries, her strength in being able to straddle traditional Uzbek and contemporary music resulting in her clinching several awards.
	www.vivamusic.com /events/u_womad.htm (644 words)

	Sevara
		Sevara Nazarkhan, a twenty-five-year-old, Uzbek singer, songwriter and musician, is a direct descendent of this past.
		Her instrument is the doutar - a fifteenth century, two-stringed, Central Asian lute that is plucked not strummed.
		Most of these songs are rooted in the Near and Middle East, where the instrumentation, whether on doutar or doira, a women's small, flat drum, follow patterns of vocalisation.
	www.orientaljazz.de /Sevara-E.htm (1104 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 - Awards for World Music 2005 - Sevara Nazarkhan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sevara has busily been making up for lost time: growing up in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent she attended music classes from an early age, studying the traditional instrument, the doutar.
		In 1996 she joined an all-women doutar ensemble and then enrolled in the Uzbek National Conservatory.
		In 1999 she was drafted in as a member of Uzbekistan's answer to The Spice Girls and became something of a pop star in Uzbekistan.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/awards2005/profile_sevaranazarkhan.shtml (858 words)

	Rambles: Sevara Nazarkhan, Yol Bolsin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yol Bolsin is certainly not a Buddha Bar wannabe record, nor does it have any relation to the monotonous rhythms of any of the typical Asian underground records that have been released in recent years.
		Nazarkhan is accompanied by several very talented musicians of note, including legendary Sufi multi-instrumentalist Toir Kuziyev, who plays both the doutar lute and the tambour while giving free rein to Nazarkhan's otherworldly voice.
		One listen and you'll see why Nazarkhan is a celebrated pop star in her homeland.
	www.rambles.net /nazarkhan_yol03.html (391 words)

	World Music Central - Yol Bolsin by Sevara Nazarkhan
		A celebrity among young women in her home, Tashkent, Sevara carries on a regal tradition of the solo woman court musician.
		She brings to us music of Central Asia (Uzbekistan, once a member of the Soviet Union), that combines melodies plucked on a doutar (a lute), with minimal percussion and mesmerizing soprano vocals.
		This traditional music can also be linked to shamanistic traditions in Central Asia, although it was the male bards called bakhshi that used music to connect to their spiritual ancestors and not the women vocalists.
	worldmusiccentral.org /article.php?story=20030625114605473&mode=print (448 words)

	AfricasGateway.com - Store - Yol Bolsin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
		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.
		This is a beautiful album of hypnotic songs, recorded in exotic Tashkent and (not so exotic) Paris on the doutar (played by Sevara) and backup mixed with electronic instrumentation.
	www.africasgateway.com /amazon-buy-B00007JV9T.html (727 words)

	Sevara Nazarkhan's 'Yol Bolsin' reviewed on the official website of Laura Hird
		It is followed by Yol Bolsin (Where Are You Going), one of the strongest songs on the album, and another example of a successful fusion of Western and Eastern in which the latter still manages to shine.
		It’s not one of the strongest tracks, but we hear the doutar again at the outset, and Sevara’s voice.
		She could sing without backup, or accompanied only by the doutar and her songs, if anything, would be even more beautiful.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/yolbolsin.html (757 words)

	Peter Gabriel at the Germaine Amphitheatre Review by Tim Bennett
		Their music consisted of tradition Middle Eastern vocal stylings from Sevara (Uzbek music is apparently closely related to Turkish music) set very often to a hard-rocking background from a band consisting of keyboards, drum kit, bass, and doutar.
		The doutar is also in the lute family of instruments, as is the guitar, but is a two stringed instrument which can be alternately plucked, tapped, or played with a bow (suggesting perhaps yet another influence on Jimmy Page's "Dazed and Confused?").
		Their music demonstrated an incredible synthesis of rock and traditional Uzbek music that succeeds wonderfully and largely, I suspect, because of the folk traditions common to both.
	www.guitarnoise.com /print_review.php?id=261 (1063 words)

	Yol Bolsin
		Displaying her skill as both a vocalist and a player of the doutar (a two-chorded lute-like instrument whose origin dates back to the 15th century), Uzbeki performer Sevara Nazarkhan deftly mixes Central Asian tradition with modern experimentation on her debut album YOL BOLSIN.
		Produced by composer/arranger Hector Zazou, YOL BOLSIN features the sinuous, almost Indian-esque vocals of Nazarkhan as the centerpiece around which the silky doutar strumming, tabla beats and synthesizer ambience swirl with Asian exoticism.
		Listen with wonder at songs like "Yor-Yor," "Orik Gullaganda" and "Galdir," which embody the beauty and mysticism of Nazarkhan's unique musical heritage.
	www.asiastore.org /rw217.html (108 words)

	6moons.com - world music: Sevara Nazarkhan "Yol Bolsin"
		For this album and In the hands of Toir Kuziyev, he incorporates the 15th century doutar as Sevara's instrument and key flavor that anchors her gentle vocals in down-tempo synth/drum ambience.
		The doutar is a long-necked, two-stringed broad-fretted plucked lute strung with either gut or silk whose timbre's related to an Arabian oud like a surbahar recalls a sitar - in a lower, warmer, more redolent register.
		He builds appeal and interest on the groove side of things, with subterranean synth accents, keyboard washes, funky loops, reverb trickery, layered percussion patterns and heavy metal doutar riffs.
	www.6moons.com /worldmusic/yolbolsin.html (571 words)

	Charlie Gillett -The Sound of the World Playlist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sevara Nazarkhan told us her song 'Gazli' was about big love in the city, which gave us a clue, but who can explain the extraordinary impact of this young woman singing words we don't understand?
		Accompanying herself on her doutar (a long, thin-necked, two-stringed instrument unique to Uzbekistan), Sevara gave us acoustic versions of two songs which have much fuller production (from Hector Zazou) on her new Real World album, Yol Bolsin.
		With a beguiling and mischievous presence to enhance her touching voice, Sevara will be back later this year for concert dates at the Barbican in London (May) and at WOMAD, Reading (July).
	www.charliegillett.com /playlist.php?date=1March03 (376 words)

	Charlie Gillett - The Sound of the World
		Completely different from the vocal gymnastics we associate with the deep-throat singing of Tuva, Severa's style is high, plaintive, open voiced.
		When she recently performed live on BBC London, accompanying herself on doutar (the long-necked, two-stringed instrument unique to Uzbekistan), there was no doubting or resisting the authority of her performance.
		Based on a song dating back to the days of the brigands who preyed on Silk Road travellers, now its message is more benign; its melodies are played by Toir Kuziyev on various string instruments - Turkish saz and Arabic oud, as well as doutar.
	www.charliegillett.com /rotm.php?date=february03 (540 words)

	Sevara Nazarkhan Tour Dates & Tickets
		Uzbek singer/songwriter and exponent of the doutar - a 15th century two-stringed Central Asian lute.
		Sevara has won a coveted BBC Radio 3 World Music Award.
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	www.ents24.com /web/artist/70591/Sevara_Nazarkhan.html (96 words)

	6moons.com - industry features: The S-Word Recos 2003
		Sevara Nazarkhan from Uzbekistan follows the footsteps of landswomen Yulduz Usmanova and Mokhira Asadova yet establishes a unique style on her US debut Yol Bolsin, by collaborating with French production wizard Hector Zazou.
		Eschewing the type of uptempo EthnoPop numbers for which Usmanova's on-stage dance troupe became rapidly famous for, Sevara concentrates on dreamy ballads accompanied on the traditional long-necked doutar lute to evoke traditional images of a Mongolian woman breaking into plain song inside a yurt tent.
		The magic of Yol Bolsin lies in the tasteful contemporary ambiance of subdued synth beats and mellow grooves that enhance rather than distract from Sevara's haunting vocalizing.
	www.6moons.com /industryfeatures/syszygy03/5.html (1692 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Barbara Rubin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As a musician, she embraced hand percussion of the region.
		She plays dumbek, frame drum, doira, Egyptian riq, finger cymbals, Turkish spoons, cajon, Armenian d'hol, and a doutar.
		Her hand embroidered beaded dance gowns have been exhibited in several art galleries in New York.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Rubin_Barbara_785555476.htm (433 words)

	By Our Hands Feb 20th Photo Gallery
		Autumn closed our show with an Egyptian-style solo incorporating Persian and ballet elements to produce a piece uniquely her own.
		She finished with a live doutar taksim and drum solo from our musicians.
		Special thanks to our musicians and volunteers, without whom we would be nothing!
	www.melissasdance.com /ByOurHandsPhotos.htm (620 words)

	JR.com: SEVARA NAZARKHAN in Music
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		Personnel: Sevara Nazarkhan (vocals); David Fiuczynski (guitar); Toir Kuziyez (doutar, tambour, ud, sato, saz, setor); Abdurahmon...
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	www.jr.com /xs-sevara-nazarkhan-in-music--ap!t;nn!720647.html (123 words)

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