Armenian Pop Music

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1.	Alas Alas 12:17	buy track
2.	On Those Days 06:55	buy track
3.	My Heart 05:46	buy track
4.	Ai Ai Heyveh 07:51	buy track
5.	Al Elnim 06:12	buy track
6.	Michel Strogoff 05:49	buy track

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A winsome and dizzying spin on disco pop, recorded in westernized Iran during the last moments before the 1979 revolution. All but criminalized in the wake of Ayatollah Khomeini's theocratic repression, Hamlet Minassian's solo masterpiece is a testament to the Middle East's forgotten dance music culture. This six-song, 44-minute LP hybridizes Euro attitude and Armenian traditional songs to create long, hypnotic proto-house, seemingly beamed in from another dimension.

The young Armenian musician Hamlet Minassian was born in Tabriz (North-Western Iran) in 1940. After graduating from the music school of his native city, he attended advanced courses at the Teheran Conservatoire followed by musical research work in Europe and the United States. His career began with composing chanson type songs. He then moved into the film industry where he rapidly built up a reputation as the composer of a number of popular themes. Hamlet Minassian has also produced original vocal and orchestral arrangements of Armenian folk tunes and has composed a number of romances and the ballet.

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released January 1, 1980

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800 Line Chicago, Illinois

The '80s live in the 800 Line, Numero Group’s new series of low-cost, high-quality repros and collections from that glorious decade where America’s inexorable decline truly began. The 800 Line is all genre, all heat, no frills, all chill.

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