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The recently released double album is inspired by an ancient Armenian tale in which a hero travels into unseen realms to find and bring back a mythical bird – whose thousand different songs will awaken people again and bring harmony to the world. Red Hail was issued in 2009 by Aratta Rebirth and his band. His musical influences were numerous, as is his trademark.
Joining the band on a couple tracks was Jan Bang on live sampling (which set the groundwork for the 2016 ECM Atmosphères project with Norwegian musicians Arve Henriksen on trumpet and Eivind Aarset on guitar).
All About Jazz raved about Shadow Theater, saying, “Hamasyan’s distinctive musicality blends jazz, European classical music and an array of influences like progressive-rock and DJ mixing.
The most conventional results of this approach are heard in the two vocal tracks. This album is the observation of influences and experiences I had.”
Born in Gyumri, Armenia, in 1987, Tigran grew up in a household that was full of music—his father more of a rock fan while his uncle was a huge jazz buff. The following year, he won the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition.
Hamasyan was awarded the Deutscher Jazzpreis international category in Piano/Keyboards in 2021. “Since then I have been meaning to have it recorded,” he said. Hamasyan has released records on France’s Plus Loins, Universal France, Nonesuch and ECM.
Hamasyan’s new conceptual album “The Bird of a Thousand Voices” was released in August 2024 on Naïve/Believe – his debut with the label.
Playlist The Aristocrats “Aristoclub" from Duck (Boing) 00:00 Fiasco “Drop Test" from anger artist (Unit Records) 06:05 Tigran Hamaysan “Only The One Who Brought The Bird Can Sing" from The Bird Of A Thousand Voices (Naive) 11:53 EABS “Boratka" from Reflections Of Purple Sun (Astigmatic) 17:50 Jizue ...
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Adam Holzman, John McLaughlin, Antoine Fafard and Brett Garsed
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Hamasyan leads a trio here with Matt Brewer on bass and Justin Brown on drums, occasionally helped out by tenor saxophonists Mark Turner and Joshua ...
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ECM Releases Four New Titles in September: Tigran Hamasyan, Giovanni Guidi, Andrew Cyrille and Jakob Bro
Source: ECM Records
RELEASE DATE: September 9 Tigran Hamasyan/Arve Henriksen/Eivind Aarset/Jan Bang: Atmosphères Tigran Hamasyan: piano; Arve Henriksen: trumpet; Eivind Aarset: guitar; Jan Bang: electronics and live sampling.
“They were different genres of music,” he says. At the time Tigran also played in the funk band Pinot.
Tigran began his recording career with three albums on the French Plus Loin label as a leader: World Passion (2006), New Era (2008) and Red Hail (2009) and was heralded as a jazz revelation by critics who had been impressed by his artistry, with one scribe writing about New Era that “with more seasoning and a calming maturity not driven by merely showing off, Hamasyan is certain to elevate his art to a top tier of jazz and world music expressionism.” Tigran incorporated Armenian folk instruments into the mix on the first two albums while expanding to a quintet format to include a vocalist for the third.
Some of the pieces are through composed and completely written out while others are through composed but with ample space for Tigran to improvise. A piano virtuoso with groove power, Hamasyan seamlessly fuses potent jazz improvisation and progressive rock with the rich folkloric music of his native Armenia. “He taught me about bebop.
In the case of pianist/keyboardist Tigran Hamasyan, potent jazz improvisation fuses with the rich folkloric music of his native Armenia. His ECM debut, Luys i Luso (Armenian sacred music from the fifth century to the twenty-first century, arranged for piano u0026 voices), was released that year. In early 2018, he released five more tracks from the sessions as the EP for Gyumri.
“In these arrangements the piano parts are never written out.