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Orient Xpress
12+ albums
alternativerockazerbaijanindieazeri rock
about
Anar Yusufov was born in the musical family in Baku Azerbaijan, he had his first musical experience listening to the records of Ray Charles, BB king, John Lennon and various jazz performers from his parent’s huge vinyl collection. Instead of going to the kindergarten he was left at home with his mother, and that started his musical education. Since he was 4 years old he used to sit in front of his piano mixing various notes and sounds till they were getting into some sort of music. In the age of 6 his father bought him his first Casio baby keyboards, which somehow gave him a bigger space for experiments. In the evening his dad used to join him on piano or a 7 string acoustic guitar. At the age of 7 he graduated to the piano class of the Mstislav Rostropovich music school. And at the age of 8 started his singing career with the BaryBakh vocal jazz band. The band had a lot of performances in the biggest concert halls and music events of Azerbaijan, toured various countries and also gave Anar lots of studio recording experience. In 1999 the band started to work in collaboration with the Vagif Sadikhov Trio. Vagif was a great Azeri jazz pianist that lived in Russia, but was also well known in the Europe's jazz scene. So as Vagif was temporarily back to Baku, Anar was taking jazz piano lessons from him. Vagif gave Anar a huge harmony and performance knowledge base. At that time Anar also started to produce his own home made music with his new Yamaha PSR 520 and his computer. His m
