Tigran Hamasyan announced that his new album The Call Within features Evan Marien on electric bass and Arthur Hnatek on drums and is now available for pre-order (click here).
The album is due August 28 on Nonesuch Records. The album comprises ten original compositions and features special guests Tosin Abasi on the Armenian prog tune Vortex and Areni Agbabian and Artyom Manukyan on Our Film.
Piano, Voices, Music by Tigran Hamasyan.
Produced by Hamasyan, The Call Within is a journey into the artist’s dreamlike inner world, which is as realistic to him as his physical one. Hamasyan, who believes that the “moment of unconscious creation is the way to feel conscious,” says: “Unutterable seconds of longing, subliminal realization, and mostly joy fill the body as a work of art, a poem, or a melody is being born into this world for no apparent reason, but only for the humanity to discover what is invisible: the divine mystery.”
The album takes inspiration from Hamasyan’s interest in maps from different eras, along with poetry, Christian and pre-Christian Armenian folk stories and legends, astrology, geometry, ancient Armenian design, rock carvings, and cinematography—blurring lines between historic reality and the imaginary world.
Watch the video for Levitation 21 here:
The Call Within tracklist:
01. Levitation 21 (05:06)
02. Our Film (05:13)
03. Ara Resurrected (08:23)
04. At a Post-Historic Seashore (01:39)
05. Space of Your Existence (04:43)
06. The Dream Voyager (05:06)
07. Old Maps (02:30)
08. Vortex (05:19)
09. Newlyweds (03:33)
10. New Maps (06:17)
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