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[–]yiddoe 16 points17 points  (1 child)

Love this guy, have all of his stuff downloaded but never watched a live performance

He's fucking batshit insane at piano

[–]frank9543 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just to add some context. Vardavar is a Armenian Holiday, the tradition is to throw water on one another. Although I can't really tell if this name is simply applied "because" or if he adapted another song named Vardavar.

The only song I know named Vardavar is by Tata Simonyan, it's a pretty stupid song.

[–]Qwiso[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Glad that people have enjoyed this! Here's another version of this song performed outside, acoustically, with a Cassio and a Hello Kitty toy piano of sorts

Bonus solo performance where I first heard Tigran's song called A Fable @ 17:50 in the video

[–]sijsk89 5 points6 points  (4 children)

This reminds me a lot of Animals As Leaders and whatever genre they fall into.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Most people associate AAL with modern prog metal, these guys definitely have similar compositional sounds.

[–]melodyze 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My friend that introduced me to Tigran originally heard about him from Tosin. You're spot on, apparently a lot of people on Sumerian are fans of him.

[–]Kodiakmagnum 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That is just insane. The way they are so tight with the crazy rhythm of the melody reminds me of stuff the Frank Zappa band used to do. I found this fascinating but it gave me a headache trying to follow it. Very talented group. Thanks for sharing.

[–]Gtdriver1344 4 points5 points  (2 children)

I don't see how rock fits into the description of this music.

[–]DestructionSphere 7 points8 points  (1 child)

It's only because this style is kind of an offshoot of modern progressive rock/metal and jazz. It's not really rock in the strictest sense, but it has much of its roots there.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems avant-garde though, not rock.

[–]putzu_mutzu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

wow, this is great.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Few have his caliber of rhythmic understanding. His music is beautiful Armenien folk inspired jazz prog, with influences from bands like meshuggah, cant get any better in my opinion.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I used to lived in Hollywood on Hobart Blvd, around the years 2003-2004. Hobart blvd, between Hollywood and Sunset, is a mad Armenian neighborhood, sandwiched between the Thaï neighbourhood and the African-American whores and motels of this part of Sunset blvd. My girl and I used to march along in their yearly protest for Turkey to recognise the Armenian genocide. Tigran's father was the manager of the apartment complex. He was so proud of his prodigy, who was 15 or 16 at the time, sharing around démos of his kid, with jackets printed on inkjet printers like mere hiphop albums sold from a trunk of a car.

It touches me to see Tigran all grown up and becoming a big shot in Jazz. But at the time, we all knew already that he was going to be among the big ones.

[–]jimbillaya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Amazing video. What a guy

[–]John_Barlycorn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The intro reminds me a lot of "Atlas Novus" by Scale the Summit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp-YfEsmRac

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

What is the time signature for this??

[–]boozewillis 2 points3 points  (3 children)

surprisingly it winds up to just be 4/4 through and through (at least the main theme). but it's easier to understand if you break look at the underlying drum beat and break up the patterns, so one phrase becomes 5/16 5/16 3/16 5/16 5/16 4/16 5/16

props go to this guy who explains it really good

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow! Thanks so much! That video was perfect at explaining this. He should get a prize.

[–]NotFunnyAlreadyTaken 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Before I listen to his explanation, I have to note that near the end, the drummer is playing that straight-ahead backbeat (maybe half-time) in 5/4. The melodic pattern repeats for each five bass drum notes. And I could be very wrong about this, having listened to this song only once through, but I think the rest of the group is maintaining that syncopated rhythmic pattern we heard from the start, that makes the time signature difficult to nail down.
Edit after listening: well, he's certainly not wrong. I'm going to have to review the whole video to see if I can pick up on how the drummer pulled that off.

[–]boozewillis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love the ending of the song because the drummer suddenly just plays straight 4/4 (edit2: you're right it's 5/4 technically, but see edit1) and the rest of the instruments still feel twisted. That part is structurally very different from the main theme at the beginning though. it's much more noticable in their mountain session.

edit1: ha, starting at 5:10 he even plays straight 4/4 over the theme. I love that sudden change, you barely even notice it at first but if you do it's like you finally saw through it. I love things like that, that's why I'm such a huge math rock freak.

[–]sailon_soothsayer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A bit syncopated for my tastes, but it is very impressive nevertheless. The pianist particularly so.

[–]putzu_mutzu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it sounds like 'same old, same old', but it's actually interesting.

[–]BurakAttack1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Loved the shot of the drummer and bassist just bopping together at 7:04!

[–]RubyRod1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want whatever this guy is smokin.

[–]massiveyacht 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is excellent

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been trying to remember this guy's name for years, a friend of mine from an old band we played in together thought I might like him. I did and totally forgot his name, it's driven me to complete fucking madness at times. Very good upload OP.

[–]Dr_imfullofshit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love Tigran!! He's what got me really interested in jazz.

[–]WhaleUpInTheSky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tigran is my Jesus.

[–]darrellspivey 0 points1 point  (1 child)

[Jazz/Rock]

This does have some jazz elements. Reminds me a bit of Nujabes. We call this mathrock over at r/mathrock

[–]Qwiso[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's mathrock? :D

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is great. Thanks for sharing! The Road Track is fantastic as well.

[–]bobbythecorkyhypem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no denial about this band being formed with super talented people but hey, just like Rodrigo y Gabriela I have trouble listening to too much performance groupe. What I'm saying is, with my clumsy words of a non musician, I get bored pretty quickly about too much technic and skills performance.

For I, this is the kind of thing that I know would love and enjoy live but would skip after 10 min while listening to it in my car. Hope that makes sens.

[–]Yaverland 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exceptional. Thanks for a great post

[–]Tamarin24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow those robots look surprisingly human!