musicians playing a new music and became a full-fledged citizen of this society. And his album »CITIZEN» convincingly proves it. Eight from ten compositions presented in the album, the author of which is Manukyan, though being different in their form, are absolutely identical and spiritually close to each other. This new music, the new look, the new breath immediately attracts the attention of the advanced listener, gets him to thinking and enjoy simultaneously. The lyrical numbers - Old new Home and Waltz For Maya, devoted to his little daughter, follow the energetic and expressive Sailors Song and Turgut To be True. There is a composition, which surely gives a tribute of respect to the beginning of his musical career and which Manukyan composed and recorded with his old friend rapper A.Chilla. And finally, worthy of special attention is the composition Duet n.1, which is the duet with the fantastic piano-player and composer Tigran Hamasyan in free spontaneous improvisation style. The partners of Artyom Manukyan this time are Tim Lefebvre (bass) and Vardan Ovsepian Jamire Williams (drums), Troy Zeigler (electronics), as well as invited guests - Arto Tuncboyaciyan (percussion, vocals), Mark De Clive-Lowe (rhodes, keyboards), Vahagni (flamenco guitar, palmas ), Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (violin) and others. One composition was written by composer and piano »player, adherent of the Third stream in jazz Vardan Ovsepian, and the song of the famous in Armenia bard Ruben Hakhverdyan, Ovsepian transformed into an excellent ballad. The debut album of cellist Artyom Manukyan illustrates his width of musical views, virtual boundlessness of his fantasy and absolute new approach to performance music in various styles and mixtures of them » jazz, classics, rap and electronics.

Track Listing

• Sailors Song (Feat.Arto Tuncboyaciyan)
• Cityzen (feat. Ross Garren & Jessica Vautor)
• Waltz for Maya ( feat. Achilles)
• Dark Matters ( feat. Gavin Salmon)
• 3 Mas Dub (feat. Tigran Hamasyan, Achilla)
• Old New Home
• Turgot to Be True (feat Vahagni, Gavin Salmon)
• Duet N.1 ( feat . Tigran Hamasyan)
• All Yours ( feat. Mark de Clive- Lowe,Achilla)
• Words (feat. Gavin Salmon)

Additional Details

Label: Ghost Note Records

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 40 mins

Release Date: 06/18/15

UPC: 641033910135