Enver Izmailov

Along with his self-invented “tapping” design of guitar playing, that allows him to simultaneously play harmony, melody and rhythm, Enver Izmailov may be the Stanley Jordan of Asia. Merging jazz, Mediterranean settings, Oriental folklore and traditional harmony, Izmailov is constantly on the garner acclaim for his unique playing. The champion of the Initial European International Acoustic guitar Competition, kept in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1995, Izmailov was voted “Musician Of THE ENTIRE YEAR” by Ukrainian Music Critics exactly the same 12 months. Explaining Izmailov’s playing, Stereoplay published, “The rhythms of china and taiwan are intertwined with raga meditations from Indian levels”. Alexey Kogan, a Kiev-based radio journalist required a similar look at when he stated, “(That is) extremely interesting, magnificent and exclusive music which may be referred to as ‘borderless’ or ‘global’.” Playing acoustic guitar from age fifteen, Izmailov analyzed the bassoon in the music college in Ferghana, graduating in 1973. After using some rock and roll and jazz rings, he became a member of a Ferghana-based music group, Sato, in 1980. Through the eight years that he continued to be using the group, his playing was presented on two albums — Efsane in 1986 and present Your Like For A PAL In A Group in 1987. Time for college, Izmailov graduated from Tashkert University or college in 1989 having a level in correspondance having a niche in “performing folk music orchestras”. The next 12 months, he released a solo profession, performing frequently at wedding ceremonies. Izmailov offers subsequently performed within the Unite d Says, Germany, Holland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Bulgaria, Estonia, Russia, Moldavia, Turkey as well as the Ukraine. Presently living on the cooperative plantation, Zavet Leninsky (Lenin’s Testament) within the Crimea, Izmailov offers discovered the Ukrainian area to become an motivation. During an interview he described, “I could feel in the home only in my own home country. In my own village within the Crimea, where I merge with character, and where in fact the morning hours breeze from your Black Sea as well as the smell of watermelons and lush southern vegetation mix deep feelings inside me, and I be quick expressing them in audio.” While he primarily performed and documented being a soloist, Izmailov provides significantly collaborated with various other musicians. Furthermore to executing duets with Turkish drummer Burhan Ocal and French keyboardist Xavier Garcia, he documented an album, Artwork FROM THE Duo: Dancing FOR THE Moon, with United kingdom flute and soprano saxophone participant Geoff Warren. In 1995, he shaped a trio, Artwork Trio Of Crimea, with saxophone, clarinet and flute participant Narket Ramazanov and percussionist Rustem Bari. The trio released an record, Minaret, in 1998.