Thursday, October 21, 2004  

Yulduz Usmanova, "Tak Boom"
from Yulduz (Sony, 1999)

If Pizzicato 5 were Uzbeki instead of Japanese---and if they hired what sounds like a Jamaican toaster and a South African chorus to move with the groove---they might have made something like "Tak Boom." The Silk Road meets the international superhighway.
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Out-of-date homepage de Yulduz
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eStart article on the U
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Lots of info about Uzbekistan, and Lonely Plant weighs in, and you know the CIA knows all 'bout the 'Stanz.
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And here you can read all about the human-rights abuses in Uzbekistan. Even in the post-Soviet era, totalitarianism is alive and well. Maybe recently elected parlimentarian Usmanova can do something about it.
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Buy the full CD used for about $3.

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