The Armenian Jazz Star TIGRAN HAMASYAN
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Tigran Hamasyan is an Armenian jazz pianist and composer. He plays mostly original compositions, strongly influenced by the Armenian folk tradition, often using its scales and modalities. In addition to this folk influence, Hamasyan is influenced by American jazz traditions and, to some extent, as on his album Red Hail, by progressive rock. His solo album A Fable is most strongly influenced by Armenian folk music. Even in his most overt jazz compositions and renditions of well-known jazz pieces, his improvisations often contain embellishments based on scales from Middle Eastern/Southwest Asian traditions.
A young Armenian prodigy, takes us into his shadow theater from which emerges a sublimated Orient. A poetic ballad, sometimes dreamlike, sometimes furiously rhythmic, with bold pop and rock accents. An unclassifiable music that serves as a setting for fragile and bewitching songs.
A sophisticated writing for a limpid and direct listening from which the emotion is born...
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