Astghik Martirosyan - Distance (2023) [Official Digital Download]

Vocalist Composer Astghik Martirosyan is proud to present her debut album, Distance — an artistic statement born of intense reflection on the relationship between present and past, self and nation, one’s inner emotional life and the call of homeland. Martirosyan wrote the music in 2020 while experiencing a stark duality: tremendous artistic growth and fulfillment at New England Conservatory in Boston, gut-wrenching news from an Armenia embroiled in a 45-day war with neighboring Azerbaijan over the status of the long-disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. This was during the pandemic as well, giving the title Distance another fraught layer of meaning. “All these emotions were happening,” Martirosyan recalls. “I was experiencing it at a distance, by myself, far from my family and my country, and all of this came out in the music. This was my way of trying to heal, hope and dream, but also to express real sorrow. I lost friends in that war, I have friends who lost their homes. Musicwas my outlet.”

The album features Vardan Ovsepian on piano, Darek Oleszkiewicz on bass, Christian Euman on drums, Daniel Rotem on tenor saxophone, and Maksim Velichkin on cello.

TRACKLIST

1. Astghik Martirosyan - Silence
2. Astghik Martirosyan - Spring Is On Its Way
3. Astghik Martirosyan - I'm Calling You (Kanchum em ari, ari)
4. Astghik Martirosyan - Song Of The Final Meeting
5. Astghik Martirosyan - Distance
6. Astghik Martirosyan - Heartsong
7. Astghik Martirosyan - Summer Night (Amran Gisher)



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