![Выступление в Тромсе было захватывающим. Вот интересный комментарий Дживана Гаспаряна.]( "Выступление в Тромсе было захватывающим. Вот интересный комментарий Дживана Гаспаряна.")
Выступление в Тромсе было захватывающим. Вот интересный комментарий Дживана Гаспаряна.
Dear Friends,
I have asked Brian to publish this message in his website. I suspect that fans of Brian and Queen would like to hear my opinion about our collaboration.
First of all, i want to express my full satisfaction with the performance in Tromso. It was a challange for us for the following reasons:
1. It was the first time we were playing together. We did not have much time to rehearse (maybe 2 hours in total). Still, the band was great, simpye fantastic... Spike and others.. all brilliant musicans. I think we did our best and I feel happy.
2. It was very cold. My hands (and Brians too !) were frozen...Yet, I think we did our best and nobody has even noticed how hard we have been working to make the music.
3. I can imagine that the improvisation was more challenging for Brian...I was playing the stuff I knew very well and that I used to play many times while Brian was doing this kind of music for the first time. First time playing an Armenian style and "talking " with a duduk. This is not easy at all !
I must stress that I played duduk for 70 years (since I was 7), collaborated with many artists, different styles (LA Philarmonic and Kronos Orchestra, jazz bands, etc.). Yet, I am a folk musician playing one of the oldest instruments on our planet. Playing an ancient Armenian Christian music.
This was my first collaboration with a rock guitarist and I must admit that I could never imagine that an electric guitar may sound so gentle, so deep from the heart, so penetrating deep into your soul... Bravo Brian ! I have heard you playing in your solo albums and in Queen CDs but what you have done with a Gladiator soundtrack was absolutely fabulous. The blend of Brian's Red Special with my duduk was brilliant.
We talked with Peter Gabriel shortly after the concert and Peter has also mentioned that Brian's playing is touching your heart just like my duduk does... So the effect was double ! I have noticed that the audience in Tromso were listening carefully to our performance with Brian. We were doing something totally different, something unusual, never done before. This is nice because the life is a challenge, an experiment. A musician without a fantasy and a risk is a dead musican, dead artist.
I pay my deep respect to Brian May, Peter Gabriel, and all other healthy musicans who are not scared of making new collaborations, new experiments and take chalanges. The music is not only a business, famous name, publicity etc... It's an ART and we should never forget about this. I am happy that Peter and Brian are among those who valued my art.
In Tromso I met Justin Adams (currently a member of Robert Plant's band, Strange Sensation). Justin reminded me a concert which I did 15 years ago in Tokyo. It was raining very heavily and we were thinking that the concert for 7,000 people will be cancelled. However, people did not leave. Justin recalls that they were all crying after my performance. Duduk brought tears and the rain could not wash them out. I can imagine how many times Queen's "The Show Must Go On", "Who Wants To Live Forever", "Love Of My Life", Peter Gabriel's "Don't Give Up", "Mercy Street" etc.., brought tears into your eyes. This is a Real Art, an Art which has no time and no limits. I pay my deep respect to these artists.
I would like to thank Peter Gabriel, who did not think twice, and kindly accepted our invitation to appear on stage and play with us "The Feeling Begins" from the Last Temptention of Christ (i am sure you know that Peter wrote the music for this movie). He did not rehearse at all ! Again, only a great human and a real musican is able to make this step. Thank you very much Peter ! You have our love and our deep respect. Your talant has no limits !
I also want to thank our modest friend Garik (Astrophysicist, Dr. Garik Israelian). We could not make this collaboration and our perforamance at 46664 without Garik. He was my 4 language interpreter, manager, musical supervisor, advisor, travel agent.... everything !
First of all, he is my, and Brian's, good friend and I want to thank him for everything.
I hope we have made our little contribution to 46664. We shall do more !
with love,
Jivan Gasparyan
