Arto Tuncboyaciyan-Le Voyage en Armenie

The soundtrack to Robert Guédiguian's film Le Voyage en Armenie by Arto Tuncboyaciyan is the second such collaboration, with Mon Père es Ingenieur the first. Tuncboyaciyan grew up in Turkey, moved to the US and eventually returned, founding the Armenian Navy Band in Yerevan. Working with the director from the script, the music to Le Voyage was composed before the first scene was ever framed. It thus stands musically fully on its own and requires no prior viewing to tell its story persuasively.


"Zetuni Zar" is a gorgeous folkloric melody filled with tender melancholy as is the slow dance of "Dolma Mama" following, its plaintive melody carried aloft by shepherd's flute, duduk and qanun and accompanied by piano. "Hoonk" uses solo cello over deep pedals while "Dancing Hands" gives solo duties to Vartan Grigorian's apricot-wood oboe. "Armenie" is a limping dance, "Butterfly" an uptempo brass band romp. Predominantly instrumental, the soundtrack closes with two songs, "Im Achkovis" and "I am simple like water". The first begins with church bells and segues into a soulful man's Blues over organ drones while the 6/8 closer suggests a couple slow-dancing over the final credits.





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