Mockroot - Tigran Hamasyan

Mockroot

Tigran Hamasyan

  • Genre: Jazz
  • Release Date: 2015-01-23
  • Explicitness: notExplicit
  • Country: USA
  • Track Count: 13

  • ℗ 2014 Nonesuch Records Inc.

Tracks

Title Artist Time
1
To Love Tigran Hamasyan 2:06 USD 1.29
2
Song for Melan and Rafik Tigran Hamasyan 5:56 USD 1.29
3
Kars 1 Tigran Hamasyan 5:26 USD 1.29
4
Double-Faced Tigran Hamasyan 5:29 USD 1.29
5
The Roads That Bring Me Closer Tigran Hamasyan 4:16 USD 1.29
6
Lilac Tigran Hamasyan 4:10 USD 1.29
7
Entertain Me Tigran Hamasyan 3:19 USD 1.29
8
The Apple Orchard in Saghmosav Tigran Hamasyan 4:22 USD 1.29
9
Kars 2 (Wounds of the Centurie Tigran Hamasyan 1:34 USD 1.29
10
To Negate Tigran Hamasyan 5:17 USD 1.29
11
The Grid Tigran Hamasyan 5:56 USD 1.29
12
Out of the Grid Tigran Hamasyan 10:25 USD Album Only

Reviews

  • Mockroot

    5
    By An Aspiring Teenage Musician
    Myself and 4 of my friends at music camp plugged this album into a speaker, laid back, and listened to it from start to finish. It was music like we had never heard. Chills from start to end. Tears every now and then. Life changing music. It's unusual keys and time signatures and overall feel is life changing. It inspired us to write a piece just like it, but it could never compare to how unbelievably amazing this album is. It touched the lives of young musicians and we are working to expose this music to the world, for it has too little recognition.
  • Best album I've heard in years

    5
    By Shermski
    Every so often you hear an album that guides your tastes from then on. This is one of those albums. I only wish I could find it on vinyl.
  • Spellbinding

    5
    By Bob W. from Cleveland
    I've been somewhat familiar with Mr H's music and therefore looked forward to this one, and I was not disappointed. This disc jumped "best of year so far" upon first listen. Besides being fine craftsmen flush with talent, they play utterly in sync and with genuine feeling. Bravo to the band, and I hope to see them live sometime soon (was not able to make it to Oberlin show last year).
  • Great album...

    4
    By musikmusikmusik
    This is top notch music by a group of top notch musicians, it really doesn't get much better than this. The complexity of the music combined with the truly savant level of ability... Tigran Hamasyan never ceases to deliver great music. But... there are 3 things about this album that I believe make it a little weak. This is certainly nit picky and sort of holding Tigran to a different standard than... well anybody really, but they are things that ultimately left me dissapointed as someone who has listened to his music since 2006. First, I found it interesting how for the last 10 years his composition style has changed only slightly, making every album more of the same. The predictability of his compositions leaves very little to be interested in. This album makes that predictability more apparent than ever. Granted, his compositions are unbelievably amazing, things I could only dream of writing, but predictable nonetheless. Next, is the drummer on this session. He certainly has a big role to fill when comparing his performance to that of Nate Wood. Nate Wood and Tigran Hamasyan go together like bread and butter. I found this drummer to be much more sparse, and his selection of cymbals far too washy. The jagged and pointed compositions from Tigran don't benefit from washy, muddy cymbols, in my opinion. It ultimately takes away from the energy and makes the group sound less tight. And this could potentially have more to do with my final issue with the album, and that is the recording and mastering. If I had to guess, this album was recorded by someone much less experienced. Tigran's previous albums have much more attention to detail in that respect, whereas this one sounds almost amateurish. The balance of the musicians is very strange with far too much enphasis placed on the piano, and an overall unrealistic sound space, especially with the reverb. The sound is very flat and unflattering to the incredible dynamics that each musician is putting into their playing. I hate to sound so harsh about who is ultimately one of my favorite musicians alive, but I think it's that level of fanboy-ism that is making me far more critical than I usually would be about an album that, in all respects, is fantastic when compared to others, but not so great when compared to his own body of work.
  • Absolutely Killing

    5
    By Cole Riddle
    Nothing less of what I expected. Filled with mind blowing rhythm and harmony that will simply rip your brain to pieces and force you to spend hours on end attempting to figure out what he is playing. Masterpiece.
  • Action packed!

    5
    By Erzom
    The album is full of action and energy!

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