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    SINGERS OF THE CAUCASUS

    Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
    March 18 2013

    Author: VK

    South Caucasian countries famous for their musical culture are almost
    strangers to Eurovision. Armenia's debut at the international song
    contest took place in 2006, the Georgian one - in 2007, the Azerbaijani
    one - in 2008. But Baku became the only Caucasian capital privileged
    to take the competition at home. Now Transcaucasian republics are
    being prepared to Eurovision-2013 to be held in Malmo.

    According to Artur Gasparyan, music critic, showman, they "are
    very active in the context of the Eurovision Song Contest. They are
    very successful, especially Azerbaijan which is making seven-league
    strides. This is a laudable trend, it is the integration not only of
    Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia, but also of other new young states
    in the European world musical process, at least in the musical process
    in the context of the Eurovision Song Contest, because Eurovision is
    not world music. Eurovision has very little to do with contemporary
    show business, in general; these are two structures which develop
    in a parallel mode. The charts in London, New York or Los Angeles,
    as you know, or even in Germany and in France and Italy, are not very
    different from what is going on in the Eurovision. This is a sort of
    Olympics in music, where creative and personal ambitions as well as
    the ambitions of participating states are realized. That is, it is a
    kind of musical contest, competition, and the more active the countries
    in this show are, including the Caucasian countries such as Armenia,
    Azerbaijan and Georgia, the better, since life is in movement".

    "Caucasian musicians, I call them that in general, because there
    are so many nationalities, always made me respect them due to their
    very reverent attitude to what I call the music", Alexander Gradsky,
    musician, told VK in an interview. "This has always been obvious.

    Incidentally, there were several representatives of the Caucasian
    peoples at the "Golos", who have shown their best, at least in my
    opinion. I had a wonderful drummer, Armen Chaldranyan, who worked in
    "Skhomorokhi" for about two years, he was a great guy and a very
    good musician".

    Speaking of his impressions of tours in the South Caucasus, Alexander
    Gradsky said: "At my time I have been in many places. There were always
    very good concerts, wonderful ones. I visited Baku a very, very long
    time ago, but I have a lot of wonderful memories of the audience,
    about how people received us, that's for sure. Somehow we went to
    swim in the port area, and then tried to wash the oil smell out,
    these things also happened. Now perhaps it is much better. But what
    I see, the panoramas that are shown, I see that the republics are
    growing and evolving very nicely. In general, I have no divisions,
    I do not divide people according to their ethnicity. I can say only
    say one thing: there is a very good attitude in the Caucasus to what
    is proper music. I think this is very important".

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    From: A. Papazian
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