Armenian Navy Band To Perform In Moscow February 20

PanARMENIAN.Net
16.02.2006 01:38 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ February 20, 2006 avant-garde folk Armenian Navy
Band of Arto Tuncboyaciyan will give a concert in Moscow. The event
will be held in the Theater of Variety Art. The band is arriving in
Russia for the first time. The avant-garde folk is in demand in Europe
today. European critics call Armenian Navy Band's music "a mountain
stream that has flooded Hollywood Dixieland." Instruments used by the
Armenian Navy Band are a mix of Armenian folk instruments (duduk,
blul, zurna, kanon and others) with contemporary ones - saxophone,
trombone, bass, keyboard. Percussionist, singer and composer Arto
Tuncboyaciyan was born in Turkey, lived in the US and returned to
his historical fatherland only at the end of past century.

He has 20 solo albums, music for cinema under his belt. The most
known one is that for Ararat film of Canadian Armenian film director
Atom Egoyan.

In late 90s Arto Tuncboyaciyan gathered a group of 12 musicians
from Armenia in Yerevan and started active creative work. Later he
managed to organize the work of Avant-Garde Folk Music Club, which
is very popular today. The Armenian Navy Band has taken part in many
international festivals, has had concert tours in many European and
Eastern countries. The group has already recorded 4 CDs - Bzdik Zinvor
(1999), "New Apricot" (2001), "Sound of Our Life" (2003), "How Much
Is Yours?" (2005). Barcelona and Madrid, Cologne and London will host
the Armenian musicians soon.