The Armenian Navy Band Presents Sounds of Our Life

03/18/2004 06:07AM

Germany - The Armenian Navy Band has a new recording. The title is Sound of Our Life - Part One: Natural Seed and it is a nearly 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 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. For Arto Tunçboyaciyan, the project Sound of Our Life is a never-ending musical documentation of the future.

Arto Tunçboyaciyan is featured as a composer and performer on several hundred recordings in Europe, America and Asia. He also has 20 of his own albums for which he composed all the music, wrote all the lyrics, and which he performed himself and recorded with the support of musical companions such as his brother Onno, Ara Dinkijan, Joe Zawinul, Paul Winter or Serj Tankian.

In 1998, in the Armenian capital Yof erevan, 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. Thus, The Armenian Navy Band was formed.

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