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alim_qasimov_consert2.jpg“Spiritual Sounds of Central Asia: Nomads, Mystics, and Troubadours,” provided Houstonian audiences with a rare opportunity to hear music from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Qaraqalpakstan (an autonomous region in Uzbekistan). Concert featured a panoramic range of vocal and instrumental music that showcases some of Central Asia’s finest performers.
The artists, legendary Azerbaijani vocalist Alim Qasimov, whom the French newspaper Le Monde hailed as “one of the most beautiful voices of our era,” and his daughter Fargana; Bardic Divas, four women from Kazakhstan and Qaraqalpakstan who demonstrate the power and beauty of the female voice; and the Badakhshan Ensemble, 

which performs trance-inducing mystical songs from the majestic Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan and Afghanistan, an area known in Persian as bam-i dunya, “the roof of the world.” The concerts included introductory documentary films about the featured musicians; supertitles with translations of song lyrics; and live, large-screen video close-ups.

 
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