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WATCH: TIGRAN HAMASYAN UNVEILS ANIMATED VIDEO FOR "MOCKROOT" SONG "KARS 2 (WOUNDS OF THE CENTURIES)"
NoneSuch
Feb 9 2015
Tigran Hamasyan, whose Nonesuch Records debut album, Mockroot,
is out now in Europe and due February 17 in the United States, has
unveiled an animated video of the album track "Kars 2 (Wounds of the
Centuries)." The video, which premiered on Les Inrocks, was created
by his sister, Melanya Hamasyan. You can watch it below.
The song was written about the town of Kars, the ancestral home of
Hamasyan's maternal grandparents, a place that became part of Turkey
in the years that followed the Ottoman genocide of Armenians during
the First World War.
"They call Armenia a country of stone, because there are so many huge
mountains made up of crazily shaped and oddly coloured stones," says
Hamasyan. "Every time I see these mountains, they tell me something.
They have a story. And, even though the town of Kars is no longer part
of Armenia, and even though the Armenian culture in that environment
doesn't exist anymore, it has been preserved in those cliffs and those
rocks. That's what I'm trying to capture in this simple, eight-bar
phrase that goes with a poem."
To order Mockroot now in Europe and pre-order in the US, head to
iTunes or Amazon. To pre-order in the US, you can also head to the
Nonesuch Store, where CD orders include a download of the complete
album starting February 17.
http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/watch-tigran-hamasyan-animated-video-mockroot-kars-2-wounds-centuries-2015-02-09
From: Baghdasarian
NoneSuch
Feb 9 2015
Tigran Hamasyan, whose Nonesuch Records debut album, Mockroot,
is out now in Europe and due February 17 in the United States, has
unveiled an animated video of the album track "Kars 2 (Wounds of the
Centuries)." The video, which premiered on Les Inrocks, was created
by his sister, Melanya Hamasyan. You can watch it below.
The song was written about the town of Kars, the ancestral home of
Hamasyan's maternal grandparents, a place that became part of Turkey
in the years that followed the Ottoman genocide of Armenians during
the First World War.
"They call Armenia a country of stone, because there are so many huge
mountains made up of crazily shaped and oddly coloured stones," says
Hamasyan. "Every time I see these mountains, they tell me something.
They have a story. And, even though the town of Kars is no longer part
of Armenia, and even though the Armenian culture in that environment
doesn't exist anymore, it has been preserved in those cliffs and those
rocks. That's what I'm trying to capture in this simple, eight-bar
phrase that goes with a poem."
To order Mockroot now in Europe and pre-order in the US, head to
iTunes or Amazon. To pre-order in the US, you can also head to the
Nonesuch Store, where CD orders include a download of the complete
album starting February 17.
http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/watch-tigran-hamasyan-animated-video-mockroot-kars-2-wounds-centuries-2015-02-09
From: Baghdasarian