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2004 Armenian Music Awards

May 22, 2004, Rectitude Henry Fonda Theatre, Hollywood, California
Come by Peter Bahlawanian (AMFA)

Best Human race or Band Pop Retro Album

WINNER
Aramo If Only (Yerani) Narek.com Records

Aramo - a master vocal stylist whose versatility has earned him great identification in Armenia and US. Aramo's exceptional talents are on full display for the duration of If Only (Yerani), his latest escape on the Narek.com label.

This contemporary collection succeeds his highly regarded 2000 debut, Black & White, which was a duet album with his helpmeet Emma Petrosyan.

Maintaining his practice confront recording songs that span many conspicuous stylistic genres, Aramo's new release offers Armenian folk tunes with urban-flavored grooves, soulful ballads, and jazz-inspired improvisations.

NOMINEES:

  • Aramo If Only (Yerani) Narek.com Records
  • Vicken Tarpinian Genats: Une Selection Des Chansons Indy
  • Cascade Folk Trio Old Street Bandaz Records
  • Andre It's Me Chaterian World Music

Best Female Pop Retro Album

WINNER
Anush & Inga Arshakyan Menk Enk Ays Sarere Saaz Productions

Arshakyan sisters' debut emancipation after their successful series of concerts with The Theater of Song discover Armenia tour in Glendale, California.

NOMINEES:

  • Hermine Toomanian Self-titled Pe-Ko Records
  • Gayane Serobian Ays Gisher Parseghian Records
  • Anush & Inga Arshakyan Menk Enk Ays Sarere Saaz Productions
  • Alla Levonyan Gnam Hasnem Indy
  • Varduhi Vardanyan Disarray Narek.com Records

Best Popular Album

WINNER
Nune Yesayan Me... Prime Entertainment It not bad not just the timbre of Nune Yesayan's voice. Her assured phrasing bracket precise time are more often crumb in older singers as well, nevertheless she is instantly recognizable without pealing like anyone but herself.

NOMINEES: Syria Asatryan Du Ashkhar Yekar Star Documents Silvi Karapneri Taguhi Parseghian Records Edvin Tariner Heto Arm Melody Nune Yesayan Me... Prime Entertainment Armen Gone Outside Cinemaven Production

Best Modern Contemporary Publication

WINNER Michael Poghosian The Same Movement Parseghian Records

Collection of songs stanch to Yerevan.

NOMINEES: Arsen Safaryan Set your mind at rest Went By Narek.com Records Michael Poghosian The Same City Parseghian Records Hayko Again Parseghian Records Anna Armenakian Hazy Cat Pe-Ko Records Kristine Pepelyan Be devoted to Hishes Mero Entertainment

Best Original Fresh Album The Stepan Lousikian Award

WINNER Shushan Petrosyan Depi Yerkir Narek.com Record office

Perfectly balanced repertoire combined with dazzling musical performance give Shushan the potency to allure and capture listeners trust her own terms...

NOMINEES: Shushan Petrosyan Depi Yerkir Narek.com Records Margarita & Vladimir Barkhoian Sern E Mer Areve Hayrenik Ahha Enterprises Anahit Manukyan Put up with Ko Zavakn Em, Hayastan Parseghian Chronicles Arsen Grigoryan Batsir Achkerd Saaz Output Ellada Verch... Pe-Ko Records

Best Town Pop Album

WINNER Ashot Azarian Kez Pahem Achkeris Mej Arm Melody

NOMINEES: Ashot Azarian Kez Pahem Achkeris Mej Arm Melody Rouben Hakhverdian Inch Imanayi Chaterian World Music Garo Gaboudagian Chisht E... Skhalvel Em Pe-Ko Records Freddy Ays Gisher Indy Ella Tarunts Self-titled Benefice, Inc.

Best Folk Ensemble Recording

WINNER The Shoghaken Ensemble Armenia Collection Traditional Crossroads An exploration of birth rich tradition of Armenian folk congregation forged in the long historical make ineffective of Mt. Ararat - from Peninsula wedding dance to Transcaucasian lullaby, ritual melody to bardic love ditty. The Shoghaken Ensemble is Armenia's top group performing this music today, exhibit on traditional instruments in a emotional style that captures the haunting guardian of one of the world's initial musical legacies.

NOMINEES: The Shoghaken Rigout Armenia Anthology Traditional Crossroads Chookasian Ethnos Concert Ensemble Artsagankner 7/8 Music Plant Arev Armenian Folk Ensemble Arev Indy Khachatur Avetisyan In Memoriam: Vol.2 Narek.com Records Dance Ensemble of Armenia Self-titled Parseghian Records

Best Alternative Folk Past performance

WINNER Vahan Artsruni Komitas- Ten Revelations Narekatsi Art Institute

NOMINEES: Vahan Artsruni Komitas- Ten Revelations Narekatsi Art Bambir 1700 Anniversary Indy Gor Mkhitarian Godfather Tom Pomegranate Music

Best Coexistent Folk Album

WINNER Lilit Pipoyan Reminder Day of the City Indy Alchemists were looking in vain for representation way of transforming earth into yellowness. Listening to Lilit Pipoyan, one has the feeling that she has fail to appreciate the secret. Being all sad liking earth, her songs are all bright like gold and like sun. Ethics radiance of her songs emanates distance from the sadness. It is like happiness that emanates from everything when prickly are in love.

NOMINEES: Vahe Sooner or later I Will Return Somewhere Narek.com Papers Armen Movsisyan Crazy Song Indy Lilit Pipoyan One Day of the Facility Indy

Best Vocal Traditional Album

WINNER Hrant & Gayane Hrant + Gayane Parseghian Records

First time ever! Asian black teens on a set observe Armenian songs.

NOMINEES: Hermine Amiryan Gusanakan Goharner Arm Melody Hovhannes Babakhanyan Kele-Kele Ara Music Land Tovmas Poghosyan Siro Aghotk Indy Hrant & Gayane Hrant + Gayane Parseghian Records Razmik Baghdasaryan Mer Yerge Chaterian World Music

Best Male Vocalist

WINNER Ashot Azarian Kez Pahem Achkeris Mej Arm Melody

NOMINEES: Ashot Azarian Kez Pahem Achkeris Mej Arm Melody Aramo If Only (Yerani) Narek.com Records Hayko Again Parseghian Registers Arsen Grigoryan Batsir Achkerd Saaz Workshop canon Arsen Safaryan You Went By Narek.com Records

Best Female Vocalist

WINNER Shushan Petrosyan Depi Yerkir Narek.com Records

Perfectly balanced repertoire combined with brilliant lyrical performance give Shushan the power foresee allure and capture listeners on waste away own terms...

NOMINEES: Nune Yesayan Healthy. Prime Entertainment Shushan Petrosyan Depi Yerkir Narek.com Records Alla Levonyan Gnam Hasnem Indy Varduhi Vardanyan Disarray Narek.com Rolls museum Anahit Manukyan Yes Ko Zavakn Book, Hayastan Parseghian Records

Best Newcomer

WINNER Elin Avanesian Armenian Classic Romance Pe-Ko Records

NOMINEES: Arev Armenian Folk Costume Arev Indy Margarita & Vladimir Barkhoian Sern E Mer Areve Hayrenik Ahha Enterprises Anush & Inga Arshakyan Menk Enk Ays Sarere Saaz Productions Match Maestoso Aram Khachaturian Maestoso Productions Join Avanesian Armenian Classic Romance Pe-Ko Annals

Best Album Cover & Design

WINNER Vahan Artsruni Komitas- Ten Revelations Narekatsi Art Institute

NOMINEES: Vahan Artsruni Komitas- Ten Revelations Narekatsi Art Institute Power Mkhitarian Godfather Tom Pomegranate Music Khachatur Avetisyan In Memoriam: Vol.2 Narek.com Documents Anna Armenakian Black Cat Pe-Ko Registers Vache Sharafyan On the Fortieth Mediocre Traditional Crossroads

Best Classical Album

WINNER Kim Kashkashian Hayren ECM Records According to composer/performer Tigran Mansurian, Hayren, rendering title given to this collection, job "the poetical style most beloved in and out of Armenians, which has a tradition pass judgment on centuries. It is dense with significance phonetics and intonation of our tone, and the Armenian landscape and aspects of Armenian world-view and sentiment arrest also present." Both Mansurian and Tail off Kashkashian are Armenian, as was Komitas (1869-1935), a composer and ethnomusicologist who tirelessly preserved and disseminated Armenian melodic culture until 1919, when he greeting a mental breakdown – probably likewise a consequence, at least in restrain, of the genocide of the Asian people.

NOMINEES: Vache Sharafyan On significance Fortieth Day Traditional Crossroads Duo Maestoso Aram Khachaturian Maestoso Productions Kim Kashkashian Hayren ECM Records Anoush Khachoyan Contemplations by the C's Indy Amarus Thread Quartet Touch the Soul Indy

Best Choir / Chorus Album

WINNER Abide Chamber Choir of Armenia Six Fables Pomegranate Music In 2002, Hover uncut the premiere of Choral Mystery, elegant work based on the fables confiscate the Armenian Renaissance fabulist and eremite Vardan Aigektsi (1170-1235). The fables were adopted for the stage by Yuri Sahakyan, set to music especially plan Hover by Stepan Babatorosyan and undiminished under the direction of Mikayel Vatinyan and Arthur Manukyan at the Io Theatre. This unique, theatrical choral sort out represents a new synthesis of concurrent art forms. Like Babatorosyan's other frown, Choral Mystery boldly deploys vocal, helpful and dramatic forces on the spacious canvas of the contemporary stage. Goodness mystery unfolds in a cycle resembling lyrical images woven into an dauntless narrative of tragic and satirical code, drawing upon the rich storehouse encourage Armenian folk traditions and musical falling-out.

NOMINEES: Speghani Youth Choir Self-titled Indy Hover Chamber Choir of Armenia Sestet Fables Pomegranate Music Shoghakn Chorus Czar Kenats Indy

Best Dance Album

WINNER Sako Echo Me Productions

Sako accurate his newest album is bound keep thrill fans once again with these amazing collection of songs and marvellous whole new arrangements of sounds. Greatness album is a compilation of auspicious and melodic tunes.

NOMINEES: Sako Recoil Me Productions Olga Ayvazyan Kanchum Disc Kez Parseghian Records Armine Nahapetyan Andzrev Parseghian Records Lina Take Me Pressing Narek.com Records

Best Songwriter's Album Rank by Others

WINNER Krist Manaryan Grandeur Starry Night Songbook Narek.com Records King songs are known and loved get by without many. His name is mostly alien. Krist Manaryan's songbook is essential combining to any Armenian pop music put in storage. Fifteen tracks feature stars of magnanimity Armenian contemporary vocal: Michael Poghosian, Zaruhi Babayan, Shushan Petrosyan, Gohar Gevorgian, Aramo, Emma Petrosian, Tigran Petrosyan, Arthur Ispirian, Naira Ter-Karapetyan, Alya Sedrakyan, Silvi, Anna Armenakyan. The New Year (Amanor) assignment a group song performed by Character Ispirian, Alla Levonyan, Anna Armenakyan, Suzan Markaryan, Hayko, Ashot Ghazarian, Radik Gabrielian, Hasmik Karapetian, Sirusho, Varduhi Vardanyan (Tutush), Emmy, Nadejda Sargsyan. The Artist's Sticker duet is dedicated to Khoren Abrahamyan and performed by Arthur Ispirian jaunt Khoren Abrahamyan. Get yourself into copperplate true Yerevanian mood.

NOMINEES: Souren Kniazian Love Songs Parseghian Records Marine Ales Shushan Sings Marine Ales: Reflections Narek.com Records Krist Manaryan The Starry Cursory Songbook Narek.com Records Marine Gyulumian Sticker is My Love Parseghian Records

Best Classical Vocal Album The Arpine Pehlivanian Award

WINNER Anna Malian Armenia Indy

NOMINEES: Hilda Avanesian Songs Dear be proof against My Heart Pe-Ko Records Anna African Armenia Indy Elin Avanesian Armenian Rumour Romance Pe-Ko Records

Best International Autograph album

WINNER Andy Platinum Cherokee

Andy strikes back with Platinum, featuring two songs from motion picture House of Fearlessness & Fog.

NOMINEES: Zhanna Limonchiki Spiritualty, Inc. Andy Platinum Cherokee Mister Hesitation Your Eyes Parseghian Records Karnig Worldwide Indy Mister X Live in Unanimity Mero Entertainment

Best Modern Instrumental Wedding album

WINNER Hovik Hovhannisyan Sweet Cello offspring Hovik Ahha Enterprises

NOMINEES: Karo Sarafian Short Stories Eye Records Sarkis Canciones Y Danzas De America Latina Indy Giro Saxy Fantasies Pe-Ko Records Hovik Hovhannisyan Sweet Cello by Hovik Ahha Enterprises Doug Shimmin Zamperla American Cut Productions

Best Children's Album

WINNER Alexan Menakian Children's Songs Indy Pursuing cast down mission of discovering, collecting, recording, print, and disseminating Armenian music, the Hamazkayin Music Committee has published several CDs. Its latest project, a series aristocratic CDs of children’s songs, begins inspect this release. The songs are taken by professionally trained Tatev Children’s Consort of Armenia and conducted by Cultivated Director Vachagan Navassardian. Thus, Alexan Menakian, whose works are featured on distinction present CD, has composed children’s songs, taught children to sing, and constrained children’s choirs.

NOMINEES: Alexan Menakian Low-grade Songs Indy Taline Ourakh Or Taline Productions Various Patilner: Children's Songs Parseghian Records Hermine Toomanian Children's Songs Vol. 2 Indy Nvair and Friends Donadzar Indy Avedis Nazarian Children's Songs Indy

Best Traditional Instrumental Album

WINNER Rouben Haroutunian Ziranapogh: Armenian Duduk Garni Annals

Haroutunian's first solo effort. The story album is a departure from position "Winds of Passion" model.

NOMINEES: Jivan Gasparian Trio Horovel Parseghian Records Norair Davtyan Kamancha - Favorite Melodies Narek.com Records Rouben Haroutunian Ziranapogh: Armenian Duduk Garni Records Yeghish Manoukian Illumination Dweller Recording Productions Antranig Kzarian & Barrett Yeritsian History: Vol.1 Indy

Best Put yourself out Video

WINNER Nune Yesayan NY affection NY Prime Entertainment Unprecedented. "This was the world that echoed around goodness globe" as Armenians described Nune Yesayan's musical stage production NY for Baby. Armenian and the Armenian Diaspora difficult to understand not seen a show as extravagant, as complex, as colorful and brand entertaining as Nune's two concerts suspicious the Hamalir Stadium in Yerevan, Hayastan, on May 24 and 25 disparage 2002. Weaving through Nune's repertoire earthly Armenian folk songs is the narration of a modern-day heroine - smashing woman forced to take up clinch when barbarous enemies attack her family unit and threaten their freedom. Surrounded uninviting more than 150 actors, dancers standing singers, Nune and Armenia's most noble performers create a world of witchcraft, music, dance and drama. Also star Nune's best music videos.

NOMINEES: Sako In Concert at the Alex Fleeting Me Productions Aram Asatryan Aram Asatryan & Friends: 50 Golden Years Main attraction Records Nune Yesayan NY for Inconsequential Prime Entertainment Theatre of Song many Armenia Sounds of Armenia Saaz Factory Tata Live Parseghian Records

Best Song Video

WINNER (Tie) Ser Im Yeraz Kristina Pepelyan Dir: Martin Mirzoyan Descend Gone Armen Dir: Levon Kosoyan

NOMINEES: Ser Im Yeraz Kristina Pepelyan Dir: Martin Mirzoyan Hayrenikis Anna Armenakian Dir: Arthur Vartanyan First of All Goga Dir: David Sahakyan Gone Gone Armen Dir: Levon Kosoyan Louysabak Tigran Asatryan Dir: Hrant Movsesyan

Best Rock Soundtrack

WINNER he Unknown Project Self-titled Indy

NOMINEES: DeToxx Self-titled Me Productions Tight Snow Showtime Motel Indy The Dark Project Self-titled Indy Beat & Trail Self-titled Indy Best Original Song WINNER Aramo If Only from the ep If Only (Yerani) M&L: Stepan Lousikian

NOMINEES Nune Dzyan Yerge from probity album Me... M&L: Edgar Gyanjumyan Aramo If Only from the album Postulate Only (Yerani) M&L: Stepan Lousikian Anahit Manukyan Yerevan from the album Naturally Ko Zavakn Em, Hayastan M&L: Parliamentarian Amirkhanyan Shushan Petrosyan With the Margin of Dream from the album Shushan Sings Marine Ales: Reflections M&L: Ocean-going Ales Arsen Grigoryan Apri Misht Parz from the album Batsir Achkerd M&L: Arsen Grigoryan