what are you listening to ?

[xBaron Dants]

Originally posted by Lagonid hishir sirelis - Harout Pampoukjian

Harout yawww, kezme lave chiga

Ha, garodtser eyi. Now I'm listening to it.

To be followed byyyyyyyy Nune's "Ton gooka verevits".

[whitelotus]

tarkan - gulumse kaderine ( murar matthew erdem remix)

i dont really care what you guys think of me listening to turkish music, i find it to be absolutely beautiful, i am open to all sorts of music, no matter what language or ethnicity is from. If its appealing , then i will listen to it. Music is universal, it has no bounderies.

if your going to give me crap about what the turks did to us, and that its really bad to listen to, then maybe you should think about a big fact , which is that 90% of rabiz music (jhoxortakan music) you guys listen to are all originally turkish songs that armenian singers stole and slapped on armenian lyrics to. And im not even talking about old songs , i mean new and original songs that belong to some of the new pop stars in turkey.

Some of these stupid rabiz singers say that there great grandfather would sing the song, so its armenian. Bullxxxx, it doesnt matter if your grandfather sang it, it doesnt make it armenian. My grandparents sang many turkish songs, it doesnt mean its a original armenian song. Cant all you idiots tell between a turkish melody and an armenian one ? they are nothing alike, they are original, unique on there own.

if you dont believe me, i can name the artist these songs belong to, and the songs names, i can even go into the original lyrics lol.

[xBaron Dants]

Did you just say that you're listening to Tarkan in order to start some sort of controversy? You seem so riled up about it before anyone said anything. You just called everyone idiots without even knowing anyone's opinion. I'm just going to guess that it's "one of those days".

Now, how shocked will you be when I actually tell you that I KNOW that many rabiz songs are based on turkish ones? Best example would be Asatryan's "Sharjir".

Rabiz isn't joghovrtagan. Joghovrtagan is the type of songs sung by Matevosian, Badalian, Hambartzumian and so on. You may be wrong about it, but that still doesn't make you an idiot. Hantardir kich me...


And to keep the post thread-related, I am listening to Alla Levonyan's Hoy Nar.

[whitelotus]

no i simply stated that so all the ignorant people out there dont attack me for it. I made my arguements beforehand

its happened many times before, people are way too closed minded and they attack you for it.

and i was reffering to the idiots, as those who are going to oppose what i said, i wasnt reffering to you.

and most of the jhoxortakan music is played at weddings, christianings parties etc in los angeles, i dont know about canada. im assuming that you guys still listen to old 70s armenian music like harout and junk haha or like addis hahaha

its way different in the states i must say though, then the armenian canadians who listen to other artists, more outdated or either....different.

especially the berutsy canadians who listen to totally different music period. which is usually old favorites , like the names you listend above etc.

[xBaron Dants]

No, I don't like Adis. Harout is cool though, except when he does that thing with his voice for too long.

Still, Joghovrtagan means folk, and armenian folk music are the songs sung by the artists I named.

I don't know which beirutsi canadians you're talking about, but the ones I see usually listen to Paul and Maxim and the other stooges. Veeeeery rare are the people who listen to Matevosian and the like.

My choice of Armenian music goes from Nune to Datevik to Matevosian to Hakhverdian to newer artists such as Lilit Pipoyan, Gor Mkhitarian and Alla Levonyan. And Tata for kef.

What about you?

[TJ]

alla and nune are pretty good. tata is good but his songs all sound the same he has this rhythmic thing in everyone. and although some people dont like him i like aram asatrian

[whitelotus]

tata makes me want to puke

dude maxim is like so 30 years ago haha
whats wrong with all you out dated berutsy canadians ? hahaha

as for listening to armenian music, i like armenian gregorian chants, old armenian church hymes, armenian jazz, classical armenian music and armenian opera. I also like artists like : michael ganyan -a famous francahye accordion player. Yerso-a frencahye singer and composer . her music is very artistic and experemental, uses duduk, electric guitars, interesting sound affects etc, walking sounds, rain drops. All her music is in the armenian language, but in a older form of armenian because they immagrated a long time ago. I like some of nunes stuff, but it gets boring. I like lusineh Zakaryans old recordings in the etchmeadthzin. I like Gary Kesayans music a lot, his jazz is awesome.

i also like old armenian music from movies like ' ench e axmekoom leecheh (getheh ?)"

old armenian songs etc.

im not into jhorxortakan music, nor rabiz music.

i like more old, artistic music. I also like some of the newer new age electronic armenian music that combines wierd sound affects, artistic mixes with duduk and other instruments

[xBaron Dants]

Originally posted by TigranJamharian alla and nune are pretty good. tata is good but his songs all sound the same he has this rhythmic thing in everyone. and although some people dont like him i like aram asatrian

Ya, Tata songs all have the same beat. Used to make me the first thirty seconds of a song before knowing which one is which.

As for Aram Asatryan, I enjoy listening to Hayer, Hayastan, and Karabakh. LOL, what patriotic titles. And Hye em Yess has become a classic.

What I hate about him is when he takes turkish songs and just translates it directly. Like Sharjir, for example. And sometimes, he does that nasal voice waaaaay too often.

[whitelotus]

rabiz singers try to imatate turkish vocal style, which is totally different from normal armenian vocalizations like the way harout sings, he sings clean armenian vocals

but the new rabiz singers , they all ' kelkelatsnel' the vocals, like the up and down vocalizations of turkish and arabic ( muslim) nation vocal types.

i dont know how to describe the type of singing, but you know what i mean. Armenian vocal is nothing like that, the way they stress certain endings, lift them, or elongate them.

[xBaron Dants]

Originally posted by whitelotus rabiz singers try to imatate turkish vocal style, which is totally different from normal armenian vocalizations like the way harout sings, he sings clean armenian vocals

but the new rabiz singers , they all ' kelkelatsnel' the vocals, like the up and down vocalizations of turkish and arabic ( muslim) nation vocal types.

i dont know how to describe the type of singing, but you know what i mean. Armenian vocal is nothing like that, the way they stress certain endings, lift them, or elongate them.

Understood, trust me.

But vocally, Rouben Matevosian remains UNDEFEATED.

And Yerso is pretty cool actually. Very nice version of Kele Lao, and Yelek was quite something. I'm listening to it now actually.