Serj Tankian shares new 24-minute classical composition ‘Disarming Time’

Serj Tankian has shared a brand new 24-minute classical composition – take heed to ‘Disarming Time: A Trendy Piano Concerto’ under.

The piece, previewed earlier this week, is the primary preview of a brand new challenge from the System Of A Down frontman known as ‘Cool Gardens Poetry Suite’, which can function 4 tracks together with spoken phrase sections taken from Tankian’s current poetry e-book, Cool Gardens.

Talking of the brand new piece, which Tankian revealed got here from the pandemic leaving him “itching for a musical problem,” he stated: “One night time sitting in mattress wanting by completely different voice memos on the iPhone I realised I’ve this big trove of brief, particular, unrealised musical concepts.

“Proper then the considered creating an epic piece utilising all of them made me smile. So I recorded all of them and began arranging the instrumentation to create this extremely distinctive musical expertise. I imply, who the fuck listens to 24 minutes of music as one piece right now?”

Hearken to ‘Disarming Time: A Trendy Piano Concerto’ under.

Tankian had beforehand mentioned the concerto in an interview with Revolver. “Creatively, I’ve at all times had this Dada-esque type of vibe, a Zappa-y type of vibe the place even the 24-minute fashionable piano concerto was principally having completely different items of music marry one another that didn’t have a preexisting relationship and making it work,” he stated.

‘Disarming Time’ is just not Tankian’s first solo launch of 2021. Again in March, he shared the 5 monitor solo EP ‘Elasticity’.

Elsewhere, Tankian not too long ago thanked US President Joe Biden for recognising the Armenian genocide.

“That is extraordinarily vital however solely a milestone in the direction of the lengthy street of justice,” he stated.