World music

Habiarjan

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polski

Fot. Grzegorz Bak

With their music, they try to heal the listeners’ phobias and knock down the walls of intolerance for other cultures and even prove how seemingly distant communities have a lot in common with each other.

Habiarjan was created in April 2013 in Warsaw. It's amazing that Poland has brought out fates together. Arthur and Artash (Armenians) and Inga, half Ingush, all so far from the Caucasus and all tightly bound by a common history of the Polish nation.

Songs talk about people, condemned to wander, without a country or escaping the nightmare of war. They tell tales of unfulfilled love, to which an obstacle were conventions or obsolete customs. But also tell stories of ordinary lives. Although music and lyrics are full of extreme passions, hope is always the common denominator. It happens that They insert snippets of traditional melodies from the Caucasian region into their own pieces to be even closer to the roots, to save them, preserve from oblivion. Group often find ourselves at rehearsal before the concert feeling our hearts racing and beginning to dance.

- 'This is our music: full of life! It is the pure essence of folk from all over the world but it is also a mission whose objective is <>'. The moving Armenian songs, hot Spanish rhythms, Afghan oriental exultations, Celtic harmonies. Group present a variety of human weaknesses, but also love both the happy and the rejected.

They won the second prize of Alicja Klenczon (Pultusk Festival in 2014), and in 2015 managed to reach the final hundred in SkodaMuzyka competition, beating over 800 bands. In 2016 they were a runner-up at the 'New York Festival' in Lodz. While playing the final concert at the 2016 European Festival of Taste in Lublin caught the attention of the most popular TV station in Armenia.