This fellow deserves a separate thread. I discovered his music quite recently, and have been obsessed since, unable to stop listening to it. He's an amazing piano player, with a unique style - but he's also an extremely talented composer, who not only mixes genres, but effaces the lines between them, trying his hand at anything: jazz, classical, folk, metal, ambient, progressive...and zeuhl among others. He can switch from group work, to solo piano music (who has the guts to release solo piano music in our days and sound relevant?), to Armenian folk songs, so one can never be sure what he's going to hear when he plays one of his records.
Red Hail and Mockroot are masterpieces for me, and of particular interest for the progressive-fusion crowds. Shadow Theater and the solo piano Ancient Observer are also terrific. I was checking Gnosis and he gets so few ratings, that I was wondering if people here know about him or not. To me he is a genuine genius, one of the very few operating in our times. What does PE think of him?
jawdropping stuff
The metal riff coming in the middle of the song is like something that was waiting for Tigran to discover. Others have done it before, but not so unpretentiously and organically. Tigran was 20 years old when this thing was released!
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