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YEREVAN—Musician Tigran Hamasyan has shared the music video for “Leninagone,” a song from his album “An Ancient Observer,” which was released in March. The song and the video are dedicated to the children who survived the devastating Armenian earthquake that hit his home town of Gyumri on December 7, 1988, 29 years ago today, Nonesuch Records reported.
“I come from the generation of children whose lives were directly affected by this tragic event, followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union three years later,” says Hamasyan.
The video, directed and edited by Melanya Hamasyan, features video footage from the pianist’s second-grade end-of-the-year performance in 1995, capture on VHS tape by a member of the audience.
“This is school N. 10, which at the time was a temporary school that the children attended while the real building was being constructed,” Hamasyan recalls. “When I found this tape in my parents’ video archives, I felt that this footage was the visual reflection of what I felt when I wrote the song ‘Leninagone.’ The video portrays the struggle and the hope of all the generations that lived through this apocalyptic time.”
Source: Asbarez
Link: Tigran Hamasyan Shares Song Dedicated to Earthquake