Арто Тунчбояджян: Әрмен музыкантының өмірі мен шығармашылығы

Armenian musician

Arto Tunchboyachyan (; ; born August 4, 1957) is an Armenian American avant garde folk and jazz multi instrumentalist and singer of Armenian descent. He fronts his own group called the Armenian Navy Band, and is also a member of the instrumental quartet Night Ark. Tunchboyachyan had appeared on more than 200 records in Europe before arriving in the United States, where he went on to work with numerous jazz musicians including Chet Baker, Marc Johnson, Al Di Meola, and Joe Zawinul, as well as performing semi regularly with Paul Winter and the Earth Band. He has worked with Turkish singer Sezen Aksu and the Greek singer Eleftheria Arvanitaki. Tunchboyachyan's elder brother Onno Tunchboyanchyan was also a musician, and they have collaborated on several occasions.

Arto Tunçboyacıyan was born in Istanbul, Turkey His father was a shoemaker of Armenian descent. At the age of 11, he began his career playing and recording traditional Anatolian music with various musicians, including his brother Onno Tunç, thus establishing himself as a professional musician throughout Turkey and Europe. In 1981, Tunçboyacıyan moved to the United States and settled in New York. Arto recorded the duo project with Ara Dinkjian "Tears of Dignity" (1994) and "Onno" (1996) homage to his brother Onno who died in a plane crash in 1996. In 1988, his solo albums Virginland and Main Root were released. In 1997 Aile Muhabbeti was released in Turkey and used as a movie soundtrack. He composed the songs with Armenian and Turkish musicians. In 2000 he released Every Day is a New Life. In 1998, Tunçboyacıyan returned to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, and met pianist and keyboardist Vahagn Hayrapetyan. They soon organised a rehearsal in order to recruit musicians to start a band. Ten local musicians were enlisted, thus becoming the Armenian Navy Band. Some months later, in 1999, the band recorded their first album, called Bzdik Zinvor, in Yerevan. The recording was followed by their first European tour in 2000, in Italy, Germany, Austria and Spain. The band then performed concerts in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. During a 2001 stop in Istanbul, the Armenian Navy Band recorded their second album, New Apricot, in 2001. Armenian Navy Band's next album was Türkçe Sözlü Hafif Anadolu Müziği , recorded in the winter of 2001. Tunçboyacıyan's 2001 album Aile Muhabbeti was used as soundtrack in two films: Hemşo (2001) and Mon père est ingénieur (2004). The 2003 album Serart is a collaboration with Serj Tankian of System of a Down. They found common ground in shared Armenian backgrounds and a passion for sonic explorations in creating music that is claimed to be "completely new." In the fall of 2003, a new project was born in a Yerevan studio. It was the beginning of a large sound project called "Sound of Our Life – Part One: Natural Seeds". The project was put together by Arto and the Armenian Navy Band, who joined their talents one more time in the fall of 2006 for Part Two. They are hourlong compositions for the ANB and choir and string orchestras. In 2004, Tunçboyacıyan opened the ANB Avant garde Folk Music Club in Yerevan. In 2006, the Armenian Navy Band was nominated for Best Band of Europe and the Audience Award at the 2006 BBC World Music Awards. Yash Ar is made up of first part of his and Yaşar Kurt's first names. In February 2011, Arto Tunçboyacıyan, as a band member of The Paul Winter Consort, won the Grammy for Best New Age Album for Miho: Journey to the Mountain.

Year Album With other artist(s) Label 1989 Virgin Land Keytone/Svota Music 1994 Main Roots 1996 Tears of Dignity Ara Dinkjian Svota Music 1998 Onno Triboh M. P. de Vito and R. Marcotulli PoloSud Avci Svota Music/Imaj Müzik 2000 Every Day Is a New Life Living Music/Earth Music Production 2001 Aile Muhabbeti Svota Music 2003 Serart Serj Tankian Serjical Strike/Columbia 2003 Türkçe Sözlü Hafif Anadolu Müziği Imaj Müzik/Svota Music/Heaven and Earth 2005 Artostan Svota Music/Heaven and Earth Love Is Not in Your Mind 2006 Le Voyage en Arménie

Year Album Label 1999 Bzdik Zinvor Svota Music 2001 New Apricot 2004 Sound of Your Life Part I "Natural Seeds" Svota Music/Heaven and Earth 2006 How Much Is Yours? Svota Music 2009 Under Your Thoughts Svota Music 2013 Sound of Our Life — Part 2: "Ethno Dispensary" D. SVOTA MUSIC/llc Avant Garde Folk Music Production Simple Like Water, Deep Like Water

Year Artist Song Album 2001 System of a Down feat. Arto Tunçboyacıyan "Science" Toxicity "Arto" 2002 "Bubbles" Steal This Album! 2003 Wax Poetic feat. Norah Jones and Arto Tunçboyacıyan "Angels" Nublu Sessions 2011 Kargin Studio «Alabalanitsa» «Alabalanitsa Soundtrack» 2012 maNga "Hoş Geldin" e akustik