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TANKIAN DEDICATES SONG TO ARMENIA'S POPULAR MOVEMENT
http://asbarez.com/109016/tankian-dedicates-song-to-armenia%E2%80%99s-popular-movement/
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
Tankian performs in Yerevan in August 2011
LOS ANGELES-Armenian-American musician and human rights activist
Serj Tankian has dedicated a recording of Komitas's "Garoun a" to
"all those in Armenia fighting for positive change."
Tankian, who is the front-man of the band System of A Down, recorded
the song with pianist Tigran Hamasyan.Listen Now.
Tankian said the song will be part of an upcoming album
"Jazz-iz-Christ" due out this summer.
Immediately following the contested presidential elections in Armenia
on Februrary 18, Tankian wrote a letter to President Serzh Sarkisian
demanding an end to corruption and injustice in Armenia, asking the
president to unite and inspire Armenians instead.
"Like most Diasporan Armenians, I have always been reluctant to
criticize your government directly and publicly. But the avalanche
of people suffering under your rule due to corruption and injustice
is tipping the scale for us all," Tankian said in the letter.
Sarkisian responded to Tankian's letter, prompting a second letter
from the rocker urging Sarkisian to not use notions of security to
distract people from injustices taking place inside Armenia.
http://asbarez.com/109016/tankian-dedicates-song-to-armenia%E2%80%99s-popular-movement/
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
Tankian performs in Yerevan in August 2011
LOS ANGELES-Armenian-American musician and human rights activist
Serj Tankian has dedicated a recording of Komitas's "Garoun a" to
"all those in Armenia fighting for positive change."
Tankian, who is the front-man of the band System of A Down, recorded
the song with pianist Tigran Hamasyan.Listen Now.
Tankian said the song will be part of an upcoming album
"Jazz-iz-Christ" due out this summer.
Immediately following the contested presidential elections in Armenia
on Februrary 18, Tankian wrote a letter to President Serzh Sarkisian
demanding an end to corruption and injustice in Armenia, asking the
president to unite and inspire Armenians instead.
"Like most Diasporan Armenians, I have always been reluctant to
criticize your government directly and publicly. But the avalanche
of people suffering under your rule due to corruption and injustice
is tipping the scale for us all," Tankian said in the letter.
Sarkisian responded to Tankian's letter, prompting a second letter
from the rocker urging Sarkisian to not use notions of security to
distract people from injustices taking place inside Armenia.