Arto Tunçboyacıyan

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Arto Tunçboyacıyan ( Armenian Արտո Թունջբոյաջյան ; born August 4, 1957 in Galata (Istanbul) , Turkey ) is a Turkish musician. He is a member of the Armenian minority in Turkey.

Life

Tunçboyacıyan began his career at the age of eleven when he played and recorded traditional music with his brother and increasingly established himself as a professional studio and session musician in Europe and Turkey. His brother, the composer and arranger Onno Tunç , is considered one of the greatest influences on Tunçboyacıyan, musically as well as personally. Characteristic is the use of pots as a percussion instrument and the inclusion of Armenian-influenced singing passages in the drumming.

In 1981 Tunçboyacıyan moved to the USA. Since then he has appeared worldwide as a sideman (among others by Chet Baker , Joe Zawinul , Don Cherry and Al Di Meola ), but also as a solo musician. Tunçboyacıyan founded the group Night Ark in 1986 together with the Armenian oud player Ara Dinkjian , which successfully toured internationally until 2000 and released five albums; He also recorded the records Tears of Dignity and Onno with him . Onno is the homage to his brother Onno Ohannes Tuncboyaciyan ( Onno Tunç ), in 1996 in a plane crash died.

In 1989 his first two solo albums were released on the Dutch label Keytone : Virginland and Main Root . In 1991 he formed the group Right Brain Patrol with Marc Johnson and Ben Monder , whose potential, in his opinion, could not be fully realized.

In 1998 he took part in the Italian project Triboh , together with the singer Maria Pia De Vito and the pianist Rita Marcotulli . The CD Triboh was created for the Italian label Polosud . In the same year he founded the Armenian Navy Band , with which he still performs today.

In 2000 Serj Tankian saw Artos perform at the 'Armenian Music Awards' in Los Angeles and participated in the recording of the album Toxicity by Serj's band System of a Down , which was released the following year, including a bonus track dedicated to him. Another two years later, in 2003, the two founded the duo Serart , which released a self-titled album on the Serjical Strike label .

His album Every Day Is a New Life was made with saxophonist Paul Winter , in whose Earth Band he played for several years, and other American musicians from this context. The album Miho: Journey to the Mountain of the Paul Winter Consort , in which he was involved, was a Grammy Award. Aile Muhabbeti (tr. "Family love") was created in Turkey as a film soundtrack, interpreted and composed by Tunçboyacıyan with various Armenian and Turkish musicians. He dedicated the album Türkçe Sözlü Hafif Anadolu Müziği (tr. "Turkish- speaking light Anatolian music") to his Anatolian fans . This album, recorded in the winter of 2002/03, was released in Turkey in 2005.

In February 2004 he recorded a new solo album Artostan in Yerevan with songs from his solo concerts. In 2005 the CD Love Is Not In Your Mind was released as a duo project with the pianist Wahagn Hajrapetjan (from the Armenian Navy Band), which he dedicated to his mother. He also composed the music for the feature film Le voyage en Armenie (2006) by Robert Guédiguian . In 2007 he founded the group Yash-ar together with the rock musician Yaşar Kurt . In 2008 Tunçboyacıyan supported the well-known Turkish pop singer Sezen Aksu on her album Deniz Yıldızı .

Choice discography

  • Virgin Land , Keytone Records, 1989
  • Main Root , Keytone Records, 1989
  • Right Brain Patrol , JMT , 1992 (and reissued Winter & Winter , 2004)
  • Tears of Dignity (with Ara Dinkjian), Libra Music / Svota Music, 1996
  • Onno , Libra Music / Svota Music, 1998
  • Triboh (with Maria Pia De Vito and Rita Marcotulli), PoloSud, 1998
  • Avcı , Svota Music / Imaj Müzik, 1998
  • Every Day is a New Life , Living Music, 2000
  • Aile Muhabbeti , Svota Music, 2001
  • Serart (with Serj Tankian), Sony Music, 2003
  • Türkçe Sözlü Hafif Anadolu Müziği , Imaj Müzik - Heaven and Earth, 2004
  • Artostan , Svota Music / Heaven and Earth, 2005
  • Love Is Not In Your Mind (with Wahagn Hajrapetjan ), Heaven and Earth, 2005
  • Ararat , 2007
  • Deniz Yıldızı , 2008 (with Sezen Aksu )

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Interview with Tunçboyacıyan in Jazzthetik : In principle yes - Arto Tunçboyacıyan ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Tunçboyacıyan, Arto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Արտո Թունջբոյաջյան (hy)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish musician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Galata (Istanbul) , Turkey