The wind is blowing... in all the speakers.
Der Hova was not exaggerating when he said the song he produced, Kami Pchi (roughly meaning "blow wind", ie. commanding the wind to blow) has swept the country. It IS everywhere, it has captivated the country, and the first time I heard it I knew immediately that it was the song he was talking about. Everybody is talking about it and listening to it, and I really love it, like I haven't loved an Armenian song in a long time. Really Der Hova, fantastic work! Everyone I talk to loves it - this is not one of those songs people disagree on... and everyone agrees this song would have likely as not won Eurovision. Any chance it can be Armenia's next entry? I think it would really blow people away (no pun inteneded!) well beyond Armenia...
posted by Raffi K. at 5:12 PM
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Thanks Raff for the compliments.
Alex thank you too for the pic you put up here.
This song has been more frustrating more than anything. The fact that it's been stolen and people are making money off of it and the group and I aren't is very upsetting. And now I just found out it's being advertised on an Armenian tv channel in North America, selling a cd with the song, illegally.
Der Hova, you have my support, tell me how/where I can purchase a legal CD. It really is a great song, and everyone I know agrees.
Guys, I was sitting at starbucks in Burbank, and a benz pulled up blasting the song... it has spread all over... people are posting the video to each other as myspace comments!
Help me!! It's taking over!! I'm melting!!!! AAAAAAArrrrggGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!
Der Hova,
a guy who works with me in Yerevan has the chorus of Kami Pchi as his cell phone ring tone. I hear it and think, Good job, Der Hova.
It was good to see you on Hotline.
P. Chad
hello any good concerts from june 14 till july 6th in Armenia will be there wanted to go see or good events goign on please let me know
Kudos to you, Der Hova! Its actually the first Armenian pop/hip-hop song I like. Too bad you guys are not profiting from the song. Where can I buy a legal cd from the LA area? PS Der Hova are you single? ;)
Hey Hova,
I just heard the song you produced on myspace, I don't know if that's the official HAYQ myspace account, but the song rocked!!!
I see a lot of potential in Armenian singers, both old school and new school.
I was wondering if maybe, just maybe some of us diasporans can do something like a fund raiser for Armenian talent.
I'm pretty sure that there are lots of Andres and HAYQ's out there. But as we all know money is one of the keys to success. I've got a few ideas, if this message makes this blog, please respond back and maybe we can exchange some ideas.
Thanks!
I saw the video for the song earlier today. I don't think it's a bad song, but I didn't really like the overly sexed-up girls and felt that it was too much of a carbon copy of American "ghetto rappers."
I am a professional musician, so I have a huge bias when it comes to music, but I've always felt that Armenian jazz, rock, (and now rap!)is neither here nor there. Not Armenian enough and a sad mimic of real jazz/rock/rap. (Real = "the best of")
I think all music should have a meaning, a purpose, and I'm not sure what the purpose of this song is.
karine, I see where you;re coming from with your comments but I think that rather than a cardbon copy this song actually adds something to what is often a very samey genre...the vocals in the song include many armenian motifs which i have never heard in this sort of recording before. It 's all these little Armenian touches that I think people are identifying with, and so when we hear it we actually feel like hey...we have Armenian rnb.. rather than " what is this trying to copy american music..." etc..
if you get what i mean? i know it sounds weird
Karine,
The beauty of music is what the listener makes of it. A song can mean something different to everyone else, even if you don't think that it has a meaning.
You know, I think I spoke too soon. What I was speaking of wasn't really unique to HAYQ, but more of a concern with a huge majority of Armenian teens.
I left Armenia in my early teens about 10 years ago, and it's so weird for me that the culture has gotten so blatantly sexual. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about sexual freedom... but it seems that it's not real sexual freedom, just teens dressing like their american counterparts they see in music videos.
That's why I felt it was just a mimic. The song is so catchy though, I will have to not watch the video and just listen to it. :)
Hip-hop or anything else, it's the parroting that is pathetic. ("Hip-hop" culture in the US went so down under, every second word being "motherfucker", that now black artists themselves (the civically conscious part of them) are speaking against it!!)
Armenians en masse ARE pitiful insecure parrots. If the "hot" item was not hip-hop but Chopin, they would be parroting that (the pain is not the music genre but the lack of soul and depth when you are parroting it). Much more visual (and incontrovertible) proof of what I am saying is the clothes people wear.
Again, I am speaking of the mass, so the examples of outstanding and wonderful Armenian musicians are not relevant.
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