This rather petite man has only to touch the keys for whole worlds to unfold under them and epochs to collide with simplicity in his imagination: Armenian folk motifs impact with classics, minimalism — with jazz and beatbox. In his player, Shostakovich, Aphex Twin, Radiohead, and Thundercat are shuffled while, in his head, micro-intervals of forgotten fifth-century spiritual music play. Where all of these genres come together, Tigran Hamasyan finds his own sound.
We found Tigran in an empty theatre 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 theatre 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.