Nostalgique Arménie 1942-1952 Digipack

Description

Western Armenian popular music uses instruments such as oud, qanun, keman, darbouka, clarinet, mandolin, tambourine, dumbeg as well as the "duduk," which is characteristic of it. The songs are in several languages: Armenian, Turkish, Greek, Kurdish, or others, often a mix of languages like street talk.
The first recordings of Ottoman-Anatolian music played and sung by Armenians, Greeks, Arabs of the Empire, between 1909-1929, were thus made in the United States, then in Europe by companies like Colombia Records, Odéon, Archalouys, or others.
This precious collection brings together the songs and performances of great Armenian artists from the time of Sayat Nova to the golden age of cultural and musical reconstruction in the diaspora. It respectfully testifies to Armenian identity, from Anatolia to the New World.