Red Hail

by Tigran Hamasyan

Red Hail cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 12 February 2009
  • Label: Plus Loin Music
  • Country: Armenia
  • Community rating: 3.96/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Armenian piano prodigy's second album as a bandleader is an explosive, highly complex fusion of intricate modern jazz and traditional Armenian folk melodies. Anchored by heavy, rock-oriented drumming and dizzying odd-meter rhythms, Hamasyan's virtuosic playing frequently borders on the intensity of progressive metal. The deeply rhythmic and fiercely energetic compositions firmly established him as a wildly inventive force in contemporary jazz.

Genres

Descriptors: uncommon-time-signatures, improvisation, rhythmic, complex, technical, melodic, virtuosic, polyrhythmic, progressive, fusion, traditional

Tracklist

  1. Shogher Jan (Dear Shogher)
  2. Red Hail (Of Pomegranate Seeds)
  3. The Glass-Hearted Queen
  4. Love Song
  5. Falling
  6. Sibylla
  7. Corrupt
  8. Part 1: Serpentine
  9. Part 2: Moneypulated
  10. Chinar Es (You Are As Tall As A Plane Tree)
  11. The Awakening Of Mher (Mithra)
  12. Amran Gisher (Summer Night)

Credits

  • Tigran Hamasyan - primary artist, piano, electric piano [fender rhodes], keyboards [nord electro keyboard], synthesizer [fantom x8 synthesizer]
  • Sam Minaie - acoustic bass, electric bass
  • Nate Wood - drums
  • Charles Altura - guitar
  • Ben Wendel - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, bassoon, melodica
  • Areni Agbabian - voice

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