"Sound of our Life" - Armenian Navy Band

• artist:
  Armenian Navy Band
• country:
  Armenia
• release year:
  2004
• style(s): Folk Jazz
• formats:
  • CD (Compact Disc)
• record submitted by:
  alba Kultur
• label:
  Heaven & Earth
• publisher:
  Heaven & Earth

In 1998 in the Armenian capital Yerevan, in the country of his ancestors, Arto Tunçboyaciyan invited eleven young, open-minded and enthusiastic musicians to join in a session for the first time. With these musicians - who played traditional folk instruments such as duduk, blul, zurna, kemanche and kanun, but also contemporary western instruments such as trombone, alto, tenor and soprano saxophone, trumpet, bass, drums, keyboards and piano - his "sound worlds" finally became audible in the form he had wanted for a long time and which fit his identity.
The album presents an almost 50-minute-long composition in eleven parts, which is dedicated to nature. "Natural Seeds" takes the listener along part of the path of life that Arto Tunçboyaciyan and his musicians have traveled. The recording equally represents the return to the origins of the musical "seed" of the Armenian Navy Band; the tremendous joy and affection which the band's musicians feel with and for each other in the here and now of their life together - also outside the recording studios and stages; as well as the hopeful, self-confident view to the future. That is simply avant-garde folk the way Arto Tunçboyaciyan understands it!

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• label Armenian Navy Band