Pianist Tigran Hamasyan, whose new album, Mockroot, is due soon, is among the "Musicians You'll Tell Your Friends About in 2015," according to NPR Music's Ann Powers. Hamasyan's "startling combinations of jazz, minimalist, electronic, folk and songwriterly elements ... beckon listeners with a magical kind of openness," she says. "On Mockroot, his Nonesuch debut, Hamasyan and his collaborators travel musical expanses marked with heavy grooves, ethereal voices, pristine piano playing and ancient melodies." Powers concludes: "You'll hear nothing else like this album in 2015."
Pianist Tigran Hamasyan, who makes his Nonesuch Records debut with the release of his new album, Mockroot, in February, is among the "Musicians You'll Tell Your Friends About in 2015," according to NPR Music's Ann Powers.
Hamasyan's "startling combinations of jazz, minimalist, electronic, folk and songwriterly elements ... beckon listeners with a magical kind of openness," says Powers. "On Mockroot, his Nonesuch debut, Hamasyan and his collaborators travel musical expanses marked with heavy grooves, ethereal voices, pristine piano playing and ancient melodies."
Powers concludes: "You'll hear nothing else like this album in 2015."
Read more and see the complete NPR Music collection of Musicians You'll Tell Your Friends About in 2015 at npr.org.
You can hear two tracks from Mockroot—"Entertain Me" and "The Apple Orchard in Saghmosavanq"—below and download the tracks now when you pre-order the album at iTunes and in the Nonesuch Store.
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