ELEMENT BAND PRESENTS ARMENIAN CD YEV O PHE

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18:16 17/03/06

Band incorporates sounds of Europe and the Mediterranean, while
maintaining purity of original compositions

Titled Yev O Phe, Element Band´s first Armenian CD brings a refreshing
and long-awaited sound to Armenian music by partnering distinct vocals
with colorful, warm and exotic arrangements.

While the sounds of Europe and the Mediterranean come to life through
the use of classical guitar, violin, bass, accordion, bouzouki,
mandolin, and keyboard, Yev O Phe remains free to be distinctively
Armenian.

The band takes great pains to keep the Armenian songs pure, but uses
bold arrangements and genuine sounds of instruments to introduce
exciting twists and compositions of traditional songs.

Element Band first captured the attention of audiences with their
performance at the John Anson Ford Theatre in May 2005, as the opening
act for the French gypsy band Bratsch. They later opened for the
legendary Demis Roussos at the Kodak Theater in November 2005.

Element Band members include Ara Dabandjian (arrangements, keyboards,
classical guitar, accordion, string instruments), Saro Koujakian
(songwriter, vocals and guitar), Gars Sherbetdjian (vocals), Shant
Mahserejian (violin), Jeremy Millado (bass). Yev O Phe

During the Middle Ages, as a result of greater and more enduring
contact between Armenia and the West, the 36-letter Armenian alphabet
incorporated two additional letters, o and phe, to better reproduce
the sounds of European tongues–all the while, needless to say,
remaining utterly Armenian. As a result, the modern Armenian alphabet
can almost perfectly replicate the pronunciations of various languages.
So it is with Element´s Armenian compositions that incorporate the
sounds of Europe and the Mediterranean, while remaining untethered,
simply free… to be Armenian–uniquely.

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