A constant question that is emailed to us is the desire to hear more music. Below appears a list of music from Armen Nalbandian available through various sources.

On armennalbandian.com (yes, the site you are currently visiting)
*Comes Love (from the Armen CD) featuring the Trio
*Come Love (Live) featurinf the Trio from a March 2006 concert
*Oska T (from the Armen CD) featuring the trio
*Don't Explain (Live) featuring the trio from a June 2006 concert

on the Blacksmith Brother Music website
(http://www.myspace.com/blacksmithbrothermusic)
*some of the above tunes plus..
*Movement #11 from the Witness Suite (June 2006)
(featuring the Armen Nalbandian {11 unit} Witness Ensemble)

on master drummer Brian Hamada's website (www.brianhamada.com)
*Camouflage (from the Armen CD) featuring the Trio

on Hamada's myspace page: (http://www.myspace.com/brianhamada)
* an excerpt from Movement #2 from Armen's Psalm Suite (September 2006)
(featuring the Armen Nalbandian Psalm Quintet)

What's the F.O.R.M.?

Check out Armen's BLOG.

On Dave Douglas' record label website, www.greenleafmusic.com, Armen is mentioned in two separate blogs by Dave Douglas. What are the blogs about? See for yourself at:

www.greenleafmusic.com

On November 30th, 2006, Armen Nalbandian will present a new ensemble named “Balance” @ the Fresno Art Museum’s Rhythms of Art Concert. Nalbandian has written an entirely new book of music especially for this ensemble configuration. The ensemble appears below:

Armen Nalbandian “Balance”

Armen Nalbandian: Fender Rhodes, Percussion
Kevin Hill: Bass, Tuba
Brian Hamada: Drums, Percussion (www.brianhamada.com)
Paul Luckessi: Woodwinds
Andre Bush: Guitar (www.andrebush.com)
Tommy Delgado: Percussion, Guitar (www.thesameshape.com)
Nino Moschella: Percussion, Vocals, Guitar, etc (www.ninmoschella.com)
Michael Aguilar: Percussion, Harmonica
Kevin McDonald: Bass

This concert will also feature poet Lee Herrick.


Don’t miss this exciting concert!!

Armen will be making his second appearance on 88.1 KFCF's Move on Up (www.myspace.com/moveonupkfcf), on November 24th, 2006. This time Armen will be performing new material on the show...more details to come.

Don't miss the Armen Nalbandian Trio (w/ guest Kevin McDonald) tonight at Veni Vidi Vici starting at 11pm! This performance likely to be Armen's last VVV performance of 2006. See you there!

The transcript of an interview with Armen on the Jazz Future radio show appears on the Blacksmith Brother Music webpage. In the interview Armen discusses the trio, playing with Nino Moschella, and his upcoming CD. Read the interview at http://www.myspace.com/blacksmithbrothermusic.

We will also soon be posting Mike Osuqueda's recent Fresno Bee article on Armen entitled Playing, writing and ... tire repair?