Sevara Nazarkhan - Tortadur (Sevaramusic) Rating: 8 (out of 10)

Uzbek singer Sevara Nazarkhan studied voice at the Tashkent State Conservatory and also plays the doutar, a 15th century two-stringed lute. Something of a pop star in her own country her 2003 album (Yol Bolsin) with the late French producer Hector Zazou mixed traditional Eastern concepts with Western modernism.