The Quest Begins is the second in Tigran Hamasyan’s triptych of music videos inspired by the Armenian tale The Bird of a Thousand Voices.
During the 2020 Artsakh War, our community came together for a special live concert event to raise vital funds for humanitarian efforts and for a moment of unity. Rock For Artsakh streamed on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram and was viewed over 1 million times the day of its premiere on October 28, 2020. During the live stream, our community raised a whopping $3,106,947.50, which was doubled thanks to the generosity of anonymous contributors and donated to ArmeniaFund to build 60 houses in Artsakh's Askeran region for families displaced by the war.
This film tells the story of an obsession a young mans obsession with music. World-renowned, maverick pianist Tigran Hamasyan makes unconventional jazz music that fascinates the greatest players and unsettles the purists. The director sweeps us along from the United States to Europe to Armenia and to France looking into the roots of this ever-searching artist. Tigran draws his inspiration as much from rock metal and jazz as from an insatiable thirst for the history and the musical folklore of his country. This intimate journey lets emotions surge from the wrestling game between the man and his music.
Tigran Hamasyan (Armenian: Տիգրան Համասյան; born July 17 1987) is an Armenian jazz pianist and composer. He plays mostly original compositions, strongly influenced by the Armenian folk tradition, often using its scales and modalities. In addition to this folk influence, Hamasyan is influenced by American jazz traditions and, to some extent, as on his album Red Hail, by progressive rock. His solo album A Fable is most strongly influenced by Armenian folk music. Even in his most overt jazz compositions and renditions of well-known jazz pieces, his improvisations often contain embellishments based on scales from Middle Eastern/Southwest Asian traditions.
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