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  • Aram Bajakian, Music Inspired by 'The Color of Pomegranates' (2015):

    Something Else! Reviews
    Feb 14 2015


    Aram Bajakian, Music Inspired by 'The Color of Pomegranates' (2015): Sneak peek


    Aram Bajakian consistently find inspiration for his music from places
    few or no one else thinks to look. Kef applied a good ol' fashioned
    American avant-rock twist to Armenian folk songs, while Dálava
    restored to life the nearly-lost traditional music of the central
    European Moravia region.

    Come this spring, the former Lou Reed and Diana Krall guitarist will
    again put forth an album of music sourced from an exotic place, but
    this time, the 'place' isn't a physical location but rather, a motion
    picture.

    The great Soviet filmmaker Sergei Parajanov made an innovative
    biographical film of the Armenian musician and poet Sayat Nova, The
    Color of Pomegranates (1969), which is widely considered his
    masterpiece. A richly colorful film that contained no moving cameras
    or real dialog, the lush visual tapestry of Pomegranates seems a prime
    subject for which to apply a new 'soundtrack' of sorts motivated
    directly by the footage (the original score, by the way, was by the
    Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian).

    That's where Aram Bajakian applies his art. Armed with only a solo
    acoustic guitar, he plays this brief piece (of which I don't have the
    name handy) from the upcoming album in an arpeggiated, classical style
    that closely matches the accompanying imagery.

    Aram Bajakian is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the most
    creative and adventurous guitarist/composers around and it is all but
    assured that this latest venture will only enhance that reputation.


    http://somethingelsereviews.com/2015/02/14/aram-bajakian-music-inspired-color-pomegranates-sneak-peek/

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