Home » Search Center » Results: Aram Bajakian

Results for "Aram Bajakian"

Advanced search options

10

Article: Album Review

Aram Bajakian: Music Inspired By the Color Of Pomegranates

Read "Music Inspired By the Color Of Pomegranates" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Guitarist Aram Bajakian found a fitting concept to tie together his creative ideas and the extended techniques he's been exploring: An obscure Russian movie about the 18th century Armenian poet, Sayat Nova. The resulting album, Music Inspired by The Color of Pomegranates, is pensive, layered, brilliantly virtuosic music, sometimes minimalist, sometimes orchestral, all of it created ...

7

Article: Live From New York

Paal Nilssen-Love, Bruce Brubaker, Muzsikás & The Glasshouse Orchestra

Read "Paal Nilssen-Love, Bruce Brubaker, Muzsikás & The Glasshouse Orchestra" reviewed by Martin Longley


Paal Nilssen-Love's Large Unit First Unitarian Congregational Society June 13, 2015 There aren't many churches where a believer can purchase Large Unit underpants upon entrance. Brooklyn's Issue Project Room experimental music venue is currently undergoing even further renovations, so they've been promoting gigs at various temporary haunts around the ...

4

Article: Live Review

Lou Reed: Bonn, Germany, June 29, 2012

Read "Lou Reed: Bonn, Germany, June 29, 2012" reviewed by Phillip Woolever


Lou ReedKunst!rassen FestivalBonn, GermanyJune 29, 2012 As far as omens may go, Lou Reed's two-hour performance as the headliner of the freshly spawned Kunst!rassen 's inaugural concert was a dynamic debut for the new festival. Reed is doubtless a major international talent, but he's also drawn very mixed reactions for ...

160

Article: Year in Review

Chris May's Best Releases of 2011

Read "Chris May's Best Releases of 2011" reviewed by Chris May


2011 produced a bigger than usual crop of engaging new albums and important reissues. In no special order, here are ten new releases and five reissues: la crème de la crème. Waitiki 7 In Hi-Fi (Pass Out)

117

News: Recording

Aram Bajakian - Aram Bajakian's Kef (2011)

Aram Bajakian - Aram Bajakian's Kef (2011)

Listening to the guitarist Aram Bajakian is lot like listening to Marc Ribot, and Aram follows much of Ribot's wildly divergent style that incorporates the vintage forms of swing, punk and rock and roll into a fresh and daring style. So it's fair to state that if you like Ribot, you're gonna like Bajakian, too. That's ...

353

Article: Extended Analysis

Aram Bajakian's Kef: New Sounds from the Armenian Diaspora

Read "Aram Bajakian's Kef: New Sounds from the Armenian Diaspora" reviewed by Chris May


Aram BajakianAram Bajakian's KefTzadik2011 Itself born out of traditional music, jazz has over the last hundred years often enriched itself with folk infusions. In the 1930s, the Gypsy jazz of guitarist Django Reinhardt enlivened the European scene. Contemporaneously, the country swing of bands such as Bob Willis ...

132

News: Recording

Aram Bajakian's Kef (Tzadik, 2011) ****a1/2

By Paul Acquaro Picked by John Zorn for his new Spotlight series on Tzadic records, you know something interesting must be is going on with Aram Bajakian's Kef trio. Listening to the Brooklyn based guitarists debut recording, all suspicions are confirmed. The songs on this album seductively, destructively and quite entertainingly blend passion, reverence and sometimes ...

156

News: Recording

Aram Bajakian's Kef (Tzadik, 2011)

By listening to this album, you can tell why rock 'n' roll legend Lou Reed would ask guitarist Aram Bajakian to play guitar on his summer tour. Bajakian can rip feedback laden Velvet Underground/Robert Quine style riffs at will, but can also play gentler music in acoustic and electric format. This album (which will be released ...

Album

Boxing Dreams

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Boxing Dreams 02. Courage 03. Morpheus 04. Crazy Legs 05. The Return of the Peanut Butter Queen 06. Mayrose 07. Big Mouth 08. Look 09. Story of Jones 10. Over-n-Out 11. Lost in Gunter's Wald. Tutti i brani sono di Sean Noonan.


Engage

Get more of a good thing!

Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories, our special offers, and upcoming jazz events near you.

Install All About Jazz

iOS Instructions:

To install this app, follow these steps:

All About Jazz would like to send you notifications

Notifications include timely alerts to content of interest, such as articles, reviews, new features, and more. These can be configured in Settings.