Credits:

Areni Agbabian

Description:

ECM debut album by improvising vocalist/folk singer/storyteller/pianist Areni Agbabian, who plays piano and voice in a quiet duo with percussionist Nicolas Stocker, formerly of Nik Bartsch's Mobile. Agbabian plays piano and voice in a quiet duo with Nicolas Stocker, a percussionist who used to play in Nik Bartsch's Mobile. Agbabian, who was born in California, is of Armenian ancestry, and many of you may know him from his participation in Tigran Hamasyan's works. In this remarkable work, Agbabian reinterprets sacred hymns, traditional stories, and folk melodies copied by the comitatus, interspersing these elements into her own stirring compositions.

Tracklisting:

1.Patience: Patience Is More Important Now/A Time to Be With You as a Time to Pray
2.Petal One
3.Rain Drops
4.Yearning
5.Petal Two
6.Light Effect
7.Anganim Arachi Ko
8.The Water Bride
9.Mother
10.Garun A
11.The River
12.Anganim Revisited
13.Sear
14.Full Bloom
15.Whiteness
16.Colored
17.Seeing More