| Vladimir Badirov was born and grown up
in Uzbekistan. He was formed as musician there also.
Educated in a family of music teachers, he successfully
accomplished the course of music school by the class of
the violin. At the age of 15 he crashed on drums. He studied
at Tashkent entertainment studio this specititley, and
for 20 years by now he does not change his favorite instrument.
He is always working on perfection of his professional
skill, aspires to come out from standard frameworks, in
these purposes he perfectly mastered percussion, drum-computer,
experiments with rhythms and samples.
He has participation in many of music projects on his
account. Being student he was invited in the theatre of
song "Resonance" created at the Union of Theatre
Actors of Uzbekistan, with which he went on tour through
the cities of Central Asia. In parallel he played in the
famous jazz trio, together with leaders of the Uzbek jazz
Sergey Gilev (contrabass) and Eduard Kalandarov (piano).
At the same time he cooperated with young Tashkent jazzmen
Igor Nadejdin (piano) and Vadim Largin (contrabass). He
also scores participation in concerts and recording of
the album in "Asia Band", the group created
by Vladimir's friend and messmate Marat Shunkarov, working
in the ethnic jazz style. Cooperation with the theatre-studio
"Ilkhom" became the great life school for Badirov,
when the famous cult director and producer Mark Vail invited
Vladimir to participate as a drummer in the performance
"Tortilla Flat Block" based on the play of J.
Steinbeck.
From 1994 to 2002 Vladimir worked with national actress
of Uzbekistan singer Yulduz Usmanova. With her group he
travelled with performances practically around the Globe,
played on festivals of ethnic pop music, participated
in recording of two albums of Yulduz. Since 2002 he
cooperates with national actress of Uzbekistan singer
Nasiba Abdullaeva. As session musician he worked with
young talent Uzbek singer Sevara Nazarkhan. Together with
her collective he appeared on the Russian in the TV program
of Dmitry Dibrov "Apology", in series of concerts
in Moscow, on the tour trip to Japan. And in 2003, together
with Sevara and her musicians Vladimir worked as member
of the "warm-up-band" in the “Grown Up” ground
tour in Europe and America of Peter Gabriel.
However, working with other musicians, Vladimir didn't
put an aside idea about his own project. And as a result
- release of the first solo album "Greeting from
Nostradamus", where 11 compositions entered representing
symbiosis of modern rhythms, electronic sounds and splendid
oriental color. The traditional Uzbek folk instruments
- nai, ud, tanbur, karnai, sato, - were used in the recording.
In the hands of professional performers they gave to the
album unique sounding and brightly painted it with oriental
patterns.
In the summer 2005 "Greeting
from Nostradamus" was the participant of 1 International
festival "Astana
- blues", Kazakhstan taking place in capital.
On a background of such venerable musicians as virtuoso
- saxophonist Igor Butman and super-guitarist
Enver Izmajlov Vladimir's performance and his collective
not only has not got lost, but has made the present furor.
For Vladimir 2005 is significant two more interesting
projects.
The group "The
FROMUZ" was created.
Andrew G. MARA-NOVIK
- bass
Vitaly A. POPELOFF
- guitars
Albert S. KHALMURZAYEV
- keyboards
Vladimir B. BADIROV
– drums A series of concerts of group with the program
"Playing The
Imitation" is played. " The FROMUZ "
took part in performance Youth Theatre of Uzbekistan "Sodom
and Gomorrah".
Performance with success was submitted on Theatrical festival
of name Chekhov in the summer 2005.
For today Vladimir continues to work on this direction.
In his plans there is a creation of grandiose show, where
the jazz rhythms will be mixed up with oriental melody.
And, certainly, to acquaint with his work as much real
music fans as possible.
Application
Hello! My name is Vladimir Badirov. I am a professional
drummer. For years of my activity as session musician
I have accumulated considerable experience of "live"
and studio work in many genres and styles of music. In
September, 2003, together with my friends and associates,
I have  released
my first solo album, which was named "Greeting
from Nostradamus". The musicians participated
in the work on this project are representing most different
styles and directions in playing. And during the record,
which look more like experiment, there was an idea to
continue our cooperation. We have decided to prepare bright
original show saturated with national color of the East
culture, in which, besides compositions from the given
album, the pieces of other authors and performers will
be included. Our creative team is ready to depart for
any spot on the globe for sharing our undertakings and
performances with all the fans of the genuine music. We
want to make a tour through clubs and festivals, and,
certainly, to record a new album. On these purposes we
are looking for progressive and courageous promoters and
managers, who would not be scared with our musical experiments,
who understand and love music with folk backgrounds. We
aspire to convey to the world a lot of new and interesting
about Uzbekistan, about its ancient musical culture, about
its rich national traditions. Also we are open to any
cooperation with everyone who could be interested in our
project... 
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