It has been three years since the «Miqayel Voskanyan and Friends» band playing in folk fusion style is playing pop, rock, jazz, and blues styles with Armenian folk musical instrument – tar. Today, the band presented a concert-presentation of «Folk Fusion by Miqayel Voskanyan and Friends band» debut album in one of the art cafés. The CD includes 10 songs, which are mixtures of different genres by ethnic grounds. The author of all compositions is the band leader Miqayel Voskanyan and the instrumentation was made by the efforts of the band.
In conversation with Aravot.am, Miqayel Voskanyan noted that the idea of releasing a CD is born when there are enough pieces and a desire to deliver them to the audience’s judgment in the form of an album. Thanks to the diligence of the group, the great desire is already a reality. The guys do not want to stop on this. They are thinking about recording a video; they also have tour proposals, which are still for discussion. The fans of the band would not even be able to “take a breath”. Soon, the new works would join to the new ones on the CD.
Miqayel Voskanyan (tar), David Sherman (saxophone), Arman Peshtmaljian (string instruments), Grammy Ebejyan (bass guitar), Movses Ebejyan (drums) and a special guest musician Edward Harutyunyan (percussion), with their experience, want to prove that the folk music is in fashion, but when you give new solutions to the national music, it becomes not only interesting, but also to some extent, even exotic. The guys managed to “put a new dress” on the “old” music and make it more perceivable for the audience. During the evening, the band presented its album and talked with the audience. New works were performed, other bands and musicians also played.
From «Miqayel Voskanyan and Friends» Band performances:
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