A couple of weeks ago Aram Bajakian provided a peek into his latest project, an alternate soundtrack to the Soviet-era Sergei Parajanov 1969 opus The Color of Pomegranates. The light, acoustic guitar instrumentation makes the perfect backing for the solemn and spiritual scenes that has no spoken words, leaving the viewer to fill in the story from other means. Like, for instance, the musical accompaniment.
There was already an original score for this movie — by the Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian — and Bajakian doesn’t seek to supplant it but rather to offer up a different musical reading of the story, the story of Armenian musician/poet Sayat Nova.
This second snippet of Bajakian’s stand-in soundtrack is somber like the first one, adding to the visuals not overwhelming them. It’s another impressionistic melodic sentiment that’s hypnotic, much as Parajanov’s fixed camera has a way that oddly mesmerizes the mind.
Aram Bajakian’s Music Inspired by ‘The Color of Pomegranates’ is slated for release this spring. Don’t miss the screening.
*** Preorder Aram Bajakian’s upcoming The Color of Pomegranates-inspired album here. ***
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