The Call Within

by Tigran Hamasyan

The Call Within cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 28 August 2020
  • Label: Nonesuch
  • Country: Armenia
  • Length: 47:50
  • Community rating: 4.08/5 from 8 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The virtuosic pianist fuses heavy, djent-inspired rhythmic complexity with the delicate melodies of traditional Armenian folk music. Inspired by ancient maps, poetry, and Christian mysticism, the instrumental trio navigates utterly bewildering time signatures and ferocious jazz-rock improvisations. It is an incredibly dense, technically staggering achievement that continually blurs the line between modern metal pacing and progressive jazz.

Genres

Descriptors: uncommon-time-signatures, progressive, complex, technical, improvisation, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Levitation 21 (5:05)
  2. Our Film (feat. Areni Aghbabian and Artyom Manukyan) (5:13)
  3. Ara Resurrected (8:22)
  4. At a Post-Historic Seashore (1:39)
  5. Space of Your Existence (4:42)
  6. The Dream Voyager (5:05)
  7. Old Maps (feat. Varduhi Art School Children's Choir) (2:30)
  8. Vortex (feat. Tosin Abasi) (5:19)
  9. 37 Newlyweds (3:33)
  10. New Maps (6:17)

Credits

  • Beth Fitchet Wood - backing vocals [backup vocals]
  • Artyom Manukyan - cello, featuring
  • Ruzanna Shahparonyan - conductor [conducted by]
  • Arthur Hnatek - drums
  • Susanna Sargsyan - edited by [poetry and text edited by]
  • Evan Marien - electric bass
  • Tosin Abasi - guitar, featuring
  • Areni Agbabian - vocals

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