The Call Within, is new at the end of August from pianist/composer Tigran Hamasyan and features 10 original compositions, the great Armenian joined by Evan Marien on electric bass and Arthur Hnatek on drums + guests, the album inspired by Tigran's interest in maps from different eras, poetry, Armenian folk stories, astrology, geometry, ancient Armenian design, rock carvings, and cinematography. Marlbank had a listen to the rest of the album just now and it is a spectacular affair, darkly prog in places, feverishly intense for sure with an elegiac tenderness to it as well and probably Tigran's best yet, full of bravura playing, tremendous improvisational flair and that unique Tigran sound you just don't hear anywhere else.
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