Magar yegmalian biography
Magar yegmalian biography
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Continually reinterpreting Armenian culture is critical to the nation surviving and thriving, says Justin Mayfield, the driving force behind Ghedtair Composite.
The premise of Music From Armenia, from Ghedtair Composite, is simple: to reimagine music from “the great Armenian songbook” in new ways.
Featuring various Armenian musicians including Sima Cunningham (Ohmme), Sevana Tchakerian (Jinj, Collectif Medz Bazaar), Michael Sarian, and Noah Garabedian, the driving force behind the project is Justin Mayfield, an Armenian-American musician, composer, and audio engineer living in Brooklyn.
“I selected folk songs and love songs from Komitas, one of his teachers Magar Yegmalian (Khourort Khorin), a traditional dance number in Kotchary, and a more modern (early 1900s) opera track called Oh Rose,” says Mayfield.
He has reworked the songs in different ways, adding that he wanted them to feel “more uplifting and joyful” than they are typically perfor