The Bambir ft. Alin Demirdjian - Episode 2: SHIRAK

Նուրբ Ակնարկ - Nurb Aknark (A Gentle Hint)

Song from the 2010 Bambir album ‘Armenian Scotch’. Written by Gagik ‘Jag’ Barseghyan with the lyrics by Scottish poet Robert Burns.

ONE PROVINCE, ONE SONG:
‘One Province, One Song’ («Մեկ Մարզ, Մեկ Երգ») is a project by the Argentinian-Armenian singer-songwriter Alin Demirdjian. The project aims to discover the diversity of the local musical scene and the cultural identity of each province (‘marz’) in Armenia and Artsakh.

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THE BAMBIR:
The Bambir is a music collective, a school of thought, an approach, spanning 4 decades, with more than fifty musicians having passed through its ranks. Beginning with Jag Bambir, over the last 40 years Bambir has developed and grown new branches.
The Bambir band (Narek, Arik, Arman and Vardan) - they have gathered their childhood appreciation for hard rock and smuggled vinyl, Armenian traditional music and poetry, pulsing beats and whirling trances, ancient tales and pagan wails and pumped it into their own unique sound. Their music has an experimental character, which usually takes place on the edge of cultures, concepts and melodies.
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ABOUT THE PROVINCE:
Shirak is a province (marz) of Armenia. It is located in the north-west of the country, bordering Turkey in the west and Georgia in the north. Its capital and largest city is Gyumri (a very cultural city, the second largest in Armenia). It is as much semi-desert as it is mountain meadow or high alpine. The climate is characterized with extremely cold snowy winters and mild summers.
Shirak Province covers an area of 2,680km2 (9% of total area of Armenia) and it has a population of 251.941, forming around 8.3% of the entire population of Armenia.
The dialect of Shirak is a variant of Karin dialect, closely related to Western Armenian.
The economy of the province is mainly based on agriculture, including farming and cattle-breeding. Around 80% of the total area of the province are arable lands. The fertile Shirak plain is the largest producer of grains and potato in Armenia.
About the industry, Shirak is the largest producer of building materials in Armenia, mainly tufa stones and pumice.

CREDITS:
Idea & managing Director: Alin Demirdjian
Project Manager: Mari Anazonian
Musical Director: Alexander Hakobyan
Video Director & DOP: Seda Grigoryan
Sound Engineer & Audio mixing: Petros Goroyan
2nd Camera: Sevak Thomasians
Social Media Manager: Anna Hakobyan
Animation: Alex Gostanian
Video equipment: E-motion Studio
Drone: David Demirchyan
Graphic Design: Proper Company

PROJECT SUPPORTED BY:
Birthright Armenia: https://www.birthrightarmenia.org/en/
My Step Foundation: https://mystep.foundation/
AGBU Armenia: https://www.agbu.am/

SPECIAL THANKS:
Regional Government of Shirak
Berlin Art Hotel (Gyumri)
Villa Kars (Gyumri)
Our dear driver Vahram Mkrtchyan.

Intro song: ‘Caminos’ (Alin Demirdjian. 2014)

©Alin Demirdjian. 2019
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