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Outside The System: 2007
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| Posted by cozmachina on Friday, January 11, 2008 - 05:42 PM |
England seemed nice this time of year; the festival was going to start later
this evening, and I can already smell the testosterone of the moshpit. I was
visiting a friend, as she and I were outside sitting at tables lined up under a
pavilion. The buffet they had for the festival was plenty; there were more
people than I ever expected.
My friend had mentioned to me how she had seen System Of A Down just a few days
ago. Of course my gratuitous response was because I was more than happy she had
gone. It had been almost one year since I’ve seen any band perform. I wish I
could have been with her. |
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A Human Being with Armenian Seasoning
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| Posted by Zildjian on Tuesday, May 01, 2007 - 07:55 PM |
On the cold night of February 16 th , a small battalion of Armenian music lovers rolled around the Harvard yard, growing like a snowball, ready to follow anyone ready to guide them towards the mysterious Paine Hall. Brandeis University graduate student Teta Kokhreidze, 25, appeared at the avant-garde of the crowd despite her high heels, holding a plastic bag full of garlicky dumplings. She was in a hurry to deliver the snack to a friend who had rushed to the concert hall straight after work to save some good seats.
“This is my favorite moment,” she exclaimed. “It's like in the old Transcaucasian joke: ‘Seventh row, your dumplings are ready at the cafeteria!'”
Finally the group reaches the concert hall, where Kokhreidze's friend Gor Zakaryan has clearly lost his appetite for the fragrant treat: in the jam-packed concert hall, the only anticipated flavor is the multi-ethnic mix of Arto Tuncboyaciyan's Avantgarde Folk music. Keeping his promise, Zakaryan has reserved almost half of the fourth row.
“Armenian is my flavor, but my nationality is Human Being,” says the 50-year-old multi-instrumentalist whose performance in Cambridge commemorated the slain editor of Istanbul's Agos newspaper, Hrant Dink. The event was co-sponsored by Harvard University Center for Middle Easter Studies. Tuncboyaciyan and Dink were personal friends.
"They didn't just kill an Armenian, they killed an ideology,” said Tuncboyaciyan about Dink's assassination. Referring to the overwhelming pro-Armenian reaction to the killing among Turks, he argued that neither religion nor culture had anything to do with it. “People came together not because of religion or culture. They came together to show that the ideology of peace among human beings can never be killed,” he said. Seeing the wave of support for Armenians rising in Turkey, Tuncboyaciyan says he can finally feel comfortable naming it as his place of origin. |
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System of a Down License Music for 'Disturbia'
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| Posted by Moonette on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 12:20 PM |
It's not easy to convince rockers System of a Down to allow for their music to be used in films.
They had never agreed to license any tracks from their library of music before director D.J. Caruso approached them about using a song in the teen thriller "Disturbia," out in theatres Friday.
Their criteria? They had to like the movie.
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Lies, Torture and Murder Exposed!
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| Posted by ZAk on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 08:12 PM |
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THE second decade of the twentieth century in the Turkish village of Efkere, a
six year old Armenian boy called Stepan Haytayan watched as his father was
wrestled away from him and tied with rope to a line of fellow men – everyday,
working, well-meaning men – by Turkish soldiers of the Ottoman Empire. The young
boy tried to kiss his father, but was pushed aside in the dirt by gun-toting
soldiers. He never saw his father again. Soon afterwards he discovered the body
of his grandmother amongst many corpses of friends, relatives and neighbours.
Soldiers had callously tried to throw her body into water to dispense of any
evidence, but her hair became entangled in thorns and lay there in the sun
overnight.
The young boy and his brother tried to untangle their grandmother, but her head
became separated from her body. Eventually they freed it and threw the head into
the water, before they were rounded up, separated and put into orphanages. Soon
afterwards the boy discovered the grave of his brother and tried to dig him up
with his bare hands, before soldiers again intervened: “Forget it, he’s dead.” |
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Directions to Scars On Broadway
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| Posted by cozmachina on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 01:58 AM |
“It’s got nothing to do with artistic expression,” stresses
Daron Malakian. “The song is the way it’s supposed to be.” That’s more than
likely to be false for what is in Daron’s songwriting, because he said this to
me in a dream, but it changed my perspective on a lot of things.
 I believe that once you’ve created something, you might think it’s
complete but it’s not – it’s only the beginning. It interprets different things
for different reasons, so there is still much yet to surface through many means.
Avenues can also rely upon personal experiences, including straight ways that
you wouldn’t go into, and turns that you would take.
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seems to be no reassurance looming for fans of System Of A Down when it pertains
to the band’s hiatus. The four members have recently finished touring with
Ozzfest 2006, but they aren’t leaving us empty handed. "We all want to take a
little bit of a break," says Daron. "But I don't want to sit around, so I'm
going to make an album."
You are now entering project-Malakian, entitled “Scars On
Broadway”, with anticipation taking the place of hiatus fears. Just the mere
mention of it already makes it a huge success. Fans can only begin to imagine
how pieces fit the puzzle – if Scars On Broadway is an end to
Mezmerize/Hypnotize, or if it’s another beginning for the next phase into System
Of A Down.
The journey that now leads Daron away from his last two incredible years is to
be anything but expectable. At least, that’s what I am hoping for. The material
is soon to emerge, and perspectives of an “outside System Of A Down” Daron
Malakian either assume the worst for his effort, or give Scars On Broadway an
enthusiastic approach with plenty of support.
So what can be expected if anything from his next project? For yourselves,
that’s for you to decide – for you to hope, dream about, or express. Personally,
among things that I can expect from Scars On Broadway is for Daron to do what he
wants.
I can also expect that Daron’s hybrid will not sound like any of what System Of
A Down has already done. However, I will suggest leaving your minds open –
exploring the avenue that he’s riding on.
By Christine Spalla
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