SERJ TANKIAN’S ELECT THE DEAD SYMPHONY CD/DVD SET TO BE RELEASED MARCH 9
PanARMENIAN.Net
09.02.2010 14:55 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On March 16, 2009, Serj Tankian and New Zealand’s
70-piece Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra took the stage at the
Auckland Town Hall in New Zealand and delivered an exhilarating
and unique performance of Tankian’s latest solo album, Elect the
Dead. Six cameras were set up to capture the performance in HD,
and the resulting product is the impressive Elect the Dead Symphony
CD/DVD set, due to be released on March 9, 2010. Tankian, Reprise
Records, and Cinema Purgatorio have been working together towards
worldwide movie screenings of Elect the Dead Symphony starting in
February. Many of the show locations are being requested by fans and
are being organized together with the Armenian American community,
including the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
Aside from the orchestral performance of the tracks on the album,
the Elect the Dead Symphony includes two bonus, never-before-heard
songs, Gate 21 and The Charade, interviews with Tankian and members
of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, as well as backstage footage.
It has been also reported that Tankian’s next album project, Music
Without Borders, will most likely be released this summer. It’s a
new genre of music in some ways, Tankian told Billboard.com. "It’s
electro orchestra jazz-rock. It’s basically a full orchestra, full,
heavy electronic beats, live instrumentation and resampling… You
name it, it’s there. It’s a huge wall of sound." Meanwhile, Tankian
has been collaborating with writer and lyricist Steven Sater and
Harvard University’s American Repertory Theatre’s Diane Paulus,
toward a musical adaptation of Aescchylus’ tragedy, Prometheus Bound.