The Sweet Sounds of Central Asian Pop

by Nathan Hamm on 3/29/2006 · 12 comments

Uyghur pop! Enjoy! (via Younghusband and AsiaPundit from this new-to-me East Turkestan based blog)

I found some more videos on YouTube. You can find them after the jump.

This Qaraqalpak video features a bitchin’ solo in the middle over, well, all kinds of stuff.

Here’s another Uyghur one from The Opposite End of China.

And finally, here’s some Azeri rap.

I may have to make this a regular feature…

{ 12 comments }

1 Younghusband 3/29/2006 at 3:13 pm: That last dude has got some serious eyebrows.
2 Bill Walsh 3/29/2006 at 4:31 pm: Man, I love the stock footage in “I am a Karakalpak.”
3 uzbekvoice 3/30/2006 at 1:23 am: Those three girls call themselves “Shahrizoda”. I don’t exactly know whether they are uyghurs or not, but I’ve heard that they had been to China several times.
4 uzbekvoice 3/30/2006 at 1:33 am: By the way, have you heard of a new Uzbek rapper Shokhrukh (orig. Shoxrux). Enjoy!
http://shoxrux.com/
5 Chirol 3/30/2006 at 2:07 am: As for the dude with the eyebrows, rapping must be pretty easy with Turkish (Azeri) vowel harmony.
6 Adamu 3/30/2006 at 9:32 pm: Balky raps in honor of his mom! I love it!
7 jonathan p 3/31/2006 at 7:22 am: Nice stock footage of the desert formerly known as the Aral Sea there.
8 Brejen 4/2/2006 at 3:24 pm: these are not uyghur but uzbek girls who had their video shot in China! They sing in Uzbek at least!
9 Azjon 4/4/2006 at 5:26 pm: It seems to me that they have some kind of accent that I can’t recognize.
10 paradox 4/6/2006 at 5:43 pm: Hey guys! whre did you find all of that? That’s all from Uzbekistan, that’s uzbek language. if you are really interested i can transfer couple of clips they are in Uzbekistan but with russian language.
11 Hans 8/21/2006 at 1:00 pm: Yes, Thank you, gave me a good mood this evening. Make it a regular feature, please !
12 eilyar 12/8/2006 at 11:50 pm: pls put some uzbek classic songs, any raced songs from samarkand famous( sharq tarana lari )