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SERJ TANKIAN SQUEEZES IN SYSTEM OF A DOWN REUNION SHOW AT SHORELINE
By: Tom Lanham
San Francisco Examiner
http://www.sfexaminer.com/blogs/backstage-pass/2011/05/serj-tankian-squeezes-system-down-reunion-show-shoreline
May 9 2011
When Armenian/American rocker Serj Tankian recently read the news
that the world's most ancient sandal, dated at 5,500 years old, had
been unearthed in Armenia, "That made me laugh, really hard," he says.
"And I thought 'Yeah! This is why Armenians are in the shoe business!'
And my dad was in the shoe business, most of his life, too. But now,
of course, everything's made in China. ..."
Tankian can't help it - he sees everything through a sharp
geopolitical lens, like the score he just composed for Steven
Sater's new Aeschylus-inspired musical "Prometheus Bound" (with a
Shirley-Manson-sung single, "The Hunger," already available at iTunes).
"We were given the tools of fire, we started our civilization, and
here we are - look at what we've done with it," sighs the ardent
follower of James Lovelock's Gaia Theory. "And according to Greek
legend, Prometheus was punished for giving us that fire. Maybe now
we know why - we have become the disease."
Ostensibly, Tankian should be on the road promoting his second
symphonic solo set, "Imperfect Harmonies," and its followup EP
"Imperfect Remixes." Or perhaps stumping for Axis Of Justice, the
socially conscious nonprofit he formed with Rage Against The Machine's
Tom Morello. Instead, fans will find him at Shoreline Amphitheatre
in Mountain View this Sunday, fronting his recently-reunited aggro
outfit System Of A Down, who temporarily regrouped for some European
festivals but decided to keep right on touring. Tankian barely had
enough time to do a handful of book readings, from his latest poetry
anthology "Glaring Through Oblivion."
All of his work stemming from his basic tenet that "we've created our
own post-agrarian world which is unsupported by science, as far as our
rationale of how we'll be able to live on this planet in the way that
we do. So now we're just trying to find ways to avoid the inevitable.
And they're not there."
From: A. Papazian
By: Tom Lanham
San Francisco Examiner
http://www.sfexaminer.com/blogs/backstage-pass/2011/05/serj-tankian-squeezes-system-down-reunion-show-shoreline
May 9 2011
When Armenian/American rocker Serj Tankian recently read the news
that the world's most ancient sandal, dated at 5,500 years old, had
been unearthed in Armenia, "That made me laugh, really hard," he says.
"And I thought 'Yeah! This is why Armenians are in the shoe business!'
And my dad was in the shoe business, most of his life, too. But now,
of course, everything's made in China. ..."
Tankian can't help it - he sees everything through a sharp
geopolitical lens, like the score he just composed for Steven
Sater's new Aeschylus-inspired musical "Prometheus Bound" (with a
Shirley-Manson-sung single, "The Hunger," already available at iTunes).
"We were given the tools of fire, we started our civilization, and
here we are - look at what we've done with it," sighs the ardent
follower of James Lovelock's Gaia Theory. "And according to Greek
legend, Prometheus was punished for giving us that fire. Maybe now
we know why - we have become the disease."
Ostensibly, Tankian should be on the road promoting his second
symphonic solo set, "Imperfect Harmonies," and its followup EP
"Imperfect Remixes." Or perhaps stumping for Axis Of Justice, the
socially conscious nonprofit he formed with Rage Against The Machine's
Tom Morello. Instead, fans will find him at Shoreline Amphitheatre
in Mountain View this Sunday, fronting his recently-reunited aggro
outfit System Of A Down, who temporarily regrouped for some European
festivals but decided to keep right on touring. Tankian barely had
enough time to do a handful of book readings, from his latest poetry
anthology "Glaring Through Oblivion."
All of his work stemming from his basic tenet that "we've created our
own post-agrarian world which is unsupported by science, as far as our
rationale of how we'll be able to live on this planet in the way that
we do. So now we're just trying to find ways to avoid the inevitable.
And they're not there."
From: A. Papazian