Tigran Hamasyan
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Topic: Tigran Hamasyan
Posted By: ProfPanglos
Subject: Tigran Hamasyan
Date Posted: October 23 2020 at 18:02
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I came across this video on YT, sorry, I don't know how to embed the video. I was pretty impressed by the weirdness of this piece. Anybody else familiar with this guy/group? I think this piece is totally cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-A_BHFZd3w
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 23 2020 at 18:19
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Insert Movie function.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 23 2020 at 18:41
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He's very good, been talked a few times here.
https://tigranhamasyan.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - https://tigranhamasyan.bandcamp.com/ https://tigranhamasyan.bandcamp.com/album/mockroot" rel="nofollow - https://tigranhamasyan.bandcamp.com/album/mockroot ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: October 23 2020 at 20:54
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Should be added to the archives ------------- The sun has left the sky... ...Now you can close your eyes |
Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: October 23 2020 at 21:11
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I think he is on here. He's great. Check out the album Lines of Oppression by Ari Hoenig. Tigran plays on it. The track Higher to Hayastan is incredible.
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 23 2020 at 21:37
I suggested him to the jazz fusion team not too long ago. -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
dougmcauliffe wrote:Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: October 24 2020 at 09:07
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He's not in the archives personally, but the band Aratta Rebirth which he led and with which he recorded one album is: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=6275 This song is beautiful: |
Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: November 01 2020 at 08:29
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Think I have heard a bit of it. I really liked it if I remember correctly. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: November 01 2020 at 08:38
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Hey, i've only heard his latest 2020 release but if any of you can come up with some songs that you would consider slam dunk jazz-fusion material, please share them here. So far there are two votes YES for Tigran. ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: tanmayj99
Date Posted: March 24 2021 at 18:06
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Replying pretty late to this but whatever. I've gotten really into Tigran's music recently and I just can't get enough. Brain-melting music, tbh. He makes complicated time signatures go soo hard xD. I generally like his live stuff better (not to say his studio tracks aren't goddamn amazing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU0g3O06HSQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A6rFjTfXEA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7j7bdEPSd0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzFAR6aN20g And just to list some great songs: Kars 1 Double-Faced The Roads That Bring Me Closer To You Lilac (solo piano piece) Entertain Me To Negate The Grid/Out of the Grid The Poet Drip The Court Jester Levitation 21 New Maps
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Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: March 24 2021 at 18:44
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I have quite enjoyed everything I've heard by him. ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: March 24 2021 at 20:18
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Love the new one. I really want "Red Hail", but it is super hard to find. Even digitally...unless I want to sell my soul to iTunes...or whatever its called now. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: exodustoinfinity
Date Posted: May 08 2021 at 05:58
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Tigran is a total monster! When I first heard this song and performance, I was more excited for a new artist than I'd been for years! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7j7bdEPSd0
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: May 08 2021 at 18:35
| If it's possible to shred on piano this guy does it. Listening now on youtube. He's very talented. I'm not sure it's fusion though. It sounds more like contemporary jazz(post bop?) to me. |
Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: May 09 2021 at 02:22
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^He definitely fuses jazz with Armenian Folk and other influences from his native background. While it isn't usually jazz+rock, it certainly ends up sounding proggy very often. Check this out: It cuts in from a crazy, almost unrecognizable rendition of the jazz standard How High the Moon.
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 09 2021 at 02:58
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A bit surprised to see Tigran included on PA as I consider him a contemporary jazz musician before anything else. Anyhoo whether or not I think he belongs here, I still very much dig the music he makes. He has been a fresh of breath air in the jazz scene. I think there are quite a few PA members who would enjoy this guy. I do imagine them coming from a jazzier background/pallette though. Mockroot is a great way to start  ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 09 2021 at 03:17
I had discovered Tigran's music just prior to the release of Mockroot, and was most impressed with his Red Hail album. Always thought there was some kind of Zeuhl side to his music. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 09 2021 at 03:32
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For those of you who like these mid-eastern infuences in their jazz-rock: Dhafer Youssef (Tunisia) Ibrahim Maalouf (Lebanon) >> this dude invented the four-piston trumpet to reflect "arabian" influences in music ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: May 09 2021 at 05:26
Ditto. Love his music hugely but don't hear much Rock there (although Djent is clearly an influence rhythmically) ------------- 
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Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: May 09 2021 at 22:54
I wonder if it's an influence, or if it's convergent evolution between his native music. Or maybe djent bands have Southeastern European/Southwest Asian influence without knowing it? Hm. (Is it a problem that by adding "hm," I can't see this comment as being anything but sarcastic and snide, even though I'm being genuine?)
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Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: May 11 2021 at 11:07
 ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: May 11 2021 at 12:02
There is no way we can get him on the Archives, is there? Maybe with an online petition?
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 11 2021 at 12:11
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I'd vote for Dhafer, great stuff, saw him live a few years ago, lovely night.
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Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: May 11 2021 at 16:01
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Yes, to both of you, amazing! ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |