"SO MUCH WEIRDNESS; SO LITTLE TIME"
Personal blog for GRAMMY®-Award nominated composer and Buddha-Bar recording artist, Armen Chakmakian.
Welcome! You'll find posts here related to my music career and anything else happening in my life. I'd like to invite you to visit my website (links below) and check out my music and videos. Happy surfing!
A video tribute to Neda Soltan. I created this video to go along with the music I composed for her. If you'd like a copy of the music, you can download it for free from the previous post.
Labels: election, Iran, music, news, people, politics, video
posted by Armen @ 2:12 AM
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I've had an interesting life so far. At age 11 I found out that the Turkish word chakmak translates to Flintstone in English. Lucky me! I've played in many bands, one of which was nominated for a Grammy (Shadowfax), and another that appeared on the Tonight Show fronted by Oscar De La Hoya, the boxer (yeah, he had a band for two weeks). I've played in biker bars and watched a biker bust the doors wide open by riding his Harley right through them and then start to do "donuts" on the dance floor! I've seen screaming matches between psychotic people in the music business over nothing important, had a former girlfriend become a nun, experienced the death of a band mate, married a woman I met online who has a brother named Armen Chakmakjian, auctioned my soul on eBay to raise money to finish an CD, found out after golfing left-handed for 19 years that I play better right-handed, and today...today I received a phone call out of the blue from Ralph Rieckermann, the bassist for the Scorpions. He asked me to record some lounge-style piano music as a "favor" to one of HIS friends for a hundred bucks. Scorpions? Lounge? Favor? What the hell?! I then realized THIS is a good day to start a blog.
