“God help not to listen to jazz after rabiz”
Avetis Harutyunyan
Just several days ago, the authorities of our wanderful city (can you
emagine how amazing it would be if I said “the wanderful authorities of
our city”?) made a decision, according to which it is forbidden to turn
the music sounds loud at restaurants and bars after 12:00 at night. The
experience of the last years show, that the owners of these restaurants
“don’t give a damn about these kind of decisions. If the
decision-makers suspect, they can go to the Hrazdan rift without taking
their car numbers off the car just today. But I think today it is more
important to know what kind of music we listen to, than the way we
listen to.
We are the most contradicting nation in the world. Because there
is no other nation, which has Aram Khachatryan and Aram Asatryan,
Komitas and “Hayko from Spitak”, Arno and “Bghdo”. It turned out, that
the style which’s called as “RABIZ” became dominant not only in the
field of music, but also in the other fields of our life too. The
guests of Yerevan and the local people may have noticed, that close to
the crosstreet, where Baghramyan starts, the new advertisement poster
of Armenchik’s new album is appended. An interesting note: the part of
our society, which are “Rabizers”, listen to the songs of Armenchik,
and the “Elitar rabizers” listen to the songs of “the elitar Armenchik”.
By the way, paying attention to the phones of armenians, which
the last times are used as watches, as a hammer or just a thing to show
to the others, we can make emaginations about what kind of music the
owner of the phone likes to listen to. For example, if someone phone
ring is set the on the anthem of Armenia, this means that either he
pretends to ba patriot, or he is one of the pro-governmental people,
who still have no state office position, but were promissed. If the
music is “Chornyj Bumer” (black bumer, which means a black BMW), this
means that he hints his father to buy this car for him, and if the
music is jazz music, this means that he makes contacts with state
officers very often and wants to show them, that he understands in jazz
too. Of course, all this could be considered as transitional apperances
of the transitional period in the third Republic, if there wouldn’t be
the “masterpiece” of our nation – the TV channel ALM (alternative mass
media), in comparison with which the song of Tatul “srtit banalin” (the
key to your heart) becomes something more than the “Moon sonate” of
Bethhoven, and the armenian music pop stars – constellations.
One more interesting note too: Our singers don’t sing any nursery
rhymes except the song of “the evening tale”, which the children of the
young generation know by heart (I don’t know why the nursery rhymes of
Ruben Hakhverdyan are not so common). And as, not depending to the
nationality, all the children like to sing and dance. But the armenian
children have to sing those songs, which they know from the TV
channels. And if we don’t forget about that our children are our future
(and I am sure that this future will be very bright), we have to come
to the sense and not only think about the nonsense disputes at the
National Assembly, but also about the problems, which seem to be small
from the first look, but are big in the reality.