For this rather petite man, it only takes to touch the keys for whole worlds to unfold under his fingers and epochs to collide: Armenian folk motifs with classics, minimalism — with jazz and beatbox. Shostakovich, Aphex Twin, Radiohead, and Thundercat are shuffled in his player. Micro-intervals of forgotten fifth-century spiritual music are played inside his head. Where all of these genres come together, Tigran Hamasyan finds his own sound.
We found Tigran in an empty theater hall while his piano was being tuned on the stage, a few hours before his first concert in Kyiv and a few days before the release of his album, ‘An Ancient Observer’.
We found Tigran in an empty theater hall while his piano was being tuned on the stage, a few hours before his first concert in Kyiv and a few days before the release of his album, ‘An Ancient Observer’.