One of the first sounds you hear on Hagop Tchaparian’s debut album Bolts is that of the British-Armenian artist quite literally following his family’s footsteps. That soft pulse of shoes on gravel, treading beneath the twangy loop of the 26-stringed Arabic instrument, the qanun on “Timelapse,” was recorded in Musa Dagh, Turkey, where several Armenian villages were once located. That’s where Tchaparian’s father was born — and from where he had to flee with his family at age three.
“I wasn’t intentionally trying to record my footprints,...
“I wasn’t intentionally trying to record my footprints,...
- 10/21/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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