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  • Sevasmo!! Mpravoo! Greetings from Romania!

  • I think this song is named Tamzara, an old Armenian folk dance... Artie Barsamian has a great rendition of it. Love Ithikon Akmeotaton's version. Can anyone tell me how does the group's name translates? Thanks.

  • @OneGraphicDesigner Group's name could be translated as "sharp spirit"," strong courage" "moral very flourishing" in the exact translation

  • @xmanthos Many thanks for translation. Wonderful name! Greeting from San Francisco area.

  • @OneGraphicDesigner its is magical to see how unifying music is!

  • @xmanthos That is very true!

  • la plus belle danse qu il puisse existee au monde!!! trop bien jouer vraiment !! grand bravo a vous !

  • Makes me want to break out dancing, beautiful music

    Sounds similar to Turkish/ Kurdish music!

  • This sounds more Persian but it sounds excellent

  • Bravo arxonta, poly kalh ektelesh!!

  • Monitonike sestem ??????

  • false.. it's turkish style.. turkish classical music..may resemble that of the Armenian music..but it's Turkish music Kontas..

  • Same geography so of course it will be identical,similar!but both turkish& armenians who full of hatred and rage,pls go fight elsewhere,this is art &when there is art,there is no way fighting.Listen the music,feel it in ur vein,it is US!!! if u bring an American,Italian,French,etc will not understand it as much as u do cus it is inside us,it s our culture,it affects u same more than the other people. Armenian,Greek,Turkish,Azeri etc let's get united herre at least. Great music,greeting fr Turkey

  • Armenian Music!!! Only it doesn't sound like any other and it doesn't Turkish one bit for ppl saying that it does

  • @SharkyJaws12

    My grandparents suffered just as much when they were forced to leave Constantinople in 1918 but to say there are no similarities between Greek, Turkish and Armenian music is a bit ignorant.

  • @HBeale13 i didn't say that. i said this song doesn't sound like any other music, well maybe persian but not greek or turkish

  • what do u know about the great armenian music u turk??

    i will give u just one thing that would make u shut up .....

    one of the oldest instruments in the world is the armenian duduk for 3 thousand years b.c ...

    so plz people dont talk unless u know especially turks

  • @demerjian100

    Kukushka, but word "duduk" is in turkic )))) The word itself is a loanword ultimately derived from Turkish "düdük".

    Even your surname is in turkic, lol . Or "demerci" is in armenian? ))))

    so shut up and masturbate your own ass ))))))))))))

  • An old folk Assyrian/Armenian song and dance called Tanzara

  • it is look like turkish music

    our cultures are same

    viva brotherhood of all people !!!

  • The Melody of the song is Armenian, but the style of the play seems more Persian.

    I'm an Armenian.

  • @ThaChosenChild then you have a narrow view of armenian culture, because this is definitely armenian style

  • @mygoodname I have a narrow view of Armenia culture? Sure.

    The style of play sounds more Arabic/Persian to me.

  • @ThaChosenChild arabs persians and armenians have been neighbors and lived together for thousands of years. our cultures and music are similar. this is armenian style. what passes for armenian music these days i can easily say sounds like western or russian style. this is an armenian beat and armenians have been playing oud for thousands of years. what is not armenian about it?

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  • @ThaChosenChild The beat is Armenian...the instruments have been played in Armenia long before the modern day european sounding armenian music and this song and the dance that goes with it is unique to armenia. so i think that makes this an Armenian style song

  • Turkish Music....

  • ԻՆԶԲԷՍ Է ՔՈԶՒԸՄ ԱԵՍ ԿՈՐՑԻԿԸ

  • you have to listen;

    /watch?v=n_eXiZaU-iM

  • love armenians ... although i am not nice music ... hala from somalia

  • We are all Grec, Armenians, Turkish. Our musical blood is one !!!! thank you so so much Kostas !! you are the best !!!!

  • @sona2505 the question is why u use Arabic instruments and they are far from you ?

  • @darklightnessful Armenia has for a long time been more associated with being middle eastern or part of the Asian continent however nowadays it's more European due to its political and economical trends. And it actually borders Turkey and Iran that's where the Arabic influence comes from.

  • Sound of brotherhood/sisterhood. Love from Turkey.

    

  • WE ALL ARMENIANS

  • @ViresVeneratio at the first I would like to say I was, moreover, I was in Turkey as a tourist and saw the ruins of Ani, the aincient capital of Armenia or what of it left the Turks varvary.A where were you?WereYou in Armenian churches wich are more than a thousand years, or were you manumente Tsitsernakaberd? Do you feel a cold sweat after that? "What do you know about music? If you just wanted to insult me, it's not fair, and then it that we are far apart, but clever you said nothing.

  • I love this performance. Does anybody know if it is available on cd or on digital download? Also, does anybody know if there is a place in the USA that I can order this from?

  • fspilot221 the british just stupid,they support the armenian curse,this OLD OSMANLI MUSIC,osmanli imperia,armenians culture thief,fuck off Gay menia !.

  • Great oud word you do your family proud keep making music, for you have a gift!

  • Turkish, Greek, Kurd, Assyrian, Armenian, Arab, they are all intertwined, but who cares as long as the OUTCOME IS THIS GREAT !

    PLAY ON ITHICON...

  • @fabianoasc = Thank you so much for this very original video - I really liked the music!. I have great admiration for the Armenian (and the Georgian) peoples.

  • perfection!

  • aram34 they are the enemy but armenians thief!,Armenian--WTF?THIS STUPID WORD !!!

  • hahahah this turkish music :D:D:D

  • @radnoybaku that s normal..cos turks and armenians share a lot,,they r brothers..not enemies

  • @radnoybaku Turkish Greek assyrian Armenian Kurdish what ever they are all similair

  • Hopahhhhhh :) !!!

  • free armenian music armcrimea.ru

  • IMO music from that area of the world, the one thing they mastered. Is the ending of their songs. Its timing is perfect and intense.

  • Ah! I found it! It's an OUD! Very beautiful instrument.

  • what is the name of the stringed instrument?

  • what is this big drum called?

  • @agee771

    From left to right : Zarb, Dap and Ud

  • och Armenia 4ever

    i must dance now

  • krÅss_bIñ_sÛpér_Ðråúf_gràDÈ_sü­cht_màl_ÂÚf_googlè_ñAch:_gelde­asy_Ës_klÃppt_wÎÉ_gÊschmìèrt

  • Great performance. this is tasteful music!

    Greetings from Armenia

  • Allah size lenet elesin. onun bunun esasda AZERBEYCANIN medeniyyetini her weyini ogulayib, oz adlarina cixirlar. thief nation armanian

  • Wow this put me in a fucking trance

  • Армяни ЛОХИ!!!

  • brothers to the kurdish people :)

    i love Armenian people.

  • What is the original name of the guitar he's playing?

  • @fedayi1177 Thx : )

  • @guitarriff1988 : This is an oud. I can't tell if it is the arabic oud or variations of it, but there are multiple versions of the same instrument on a regional basis.

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  • @guitarriff1988 go wikipedia

    /wiki/Pandoura

    /wiki/Oud

  • nice work

  • Read "Paradise Lost" by Giles Milton (2008). It tells the facts of the Turkish genocide of all the Christians of Asia Minor (now "Turkey"). It is available in English, Greek, and Turkish. It would be safest to read the English version.

  • this Turkish musik !!!!!!!!!

  • @AzerbaycanTurk99 hayir kardes orijinal ermeni müzigi. türkler calmislar.

  • @AzerbaycanTurk99 Turks dont have their pure own music mate... They have music from greece iran armenia etc mix

  • @blancbard i didnt read comments b4 this. but thats fucking faschist.

  • magyarisztan ! minden jót Nektek Örmények ! Ararat rulez ! :)

  • Azeri idiots its oud, not saz,,,,, vashu mat , kakie vi tupie aaaaa... u vas nichevo netu, tolko bolshoy porvanni flag s baranom,

  • Azeri idiots its oud, not saz,,,,, vashu mat , kakie vi tupie aaaaa... u vas nichevo netu, tolko bolshoy porvanni flag s baranom, 

  • armenia power 4 ever 

  • Azerbaydjanskaya muzika...This is Azerbaijanian misic...turkish saz verno skazali...

  • @Azeripsixolirik

    cocksucker

  • many thanks from Kurdistan.

    viva Armeniens !

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  • ZAWT TANEM!

  • countries are at war because of the people like u there are almost 4million armenians living in turkey they arnt complaining so what it happen long time ago life is too short to go around spreading the hatered unfortunately u cant be armenian cause a true armenian is a true christian who is the follower of jesus christ who prays loves and forgives the ones that sin.

  • @McLarenF1rus what do you know of religion stupid turks not all turks there many understanding nice turks , the reason there are armenians living in turkey they are not quiet they are boycotting every april24 and the reason they live in turkey because there are Armenian ancient lands that was stolen from mongols turks dadjiks and the list goes on ! so dont talk shit of Armenians and eenjoy the Armenian music !

  • thumbs up if yur Armenian (:

  • these guys are great! the recording quality is exceptional

  • TURKISH SAZ!!! U R THE FUCKKING ARM....DON'T U HAVE ANYTHING??? FUCKING NATION!

  • @abbasov88 idiot u think u have anything urs???ur fucking thief.

  • @Iloveando17 lol..pls put here ur shit comments, which don't mean anything and don't lick other nations slave!!

  • @sevki79 ......ur an idiot

  • tüm türk kirli anne sikme

  • this is not Armenian music re Malaka

  • @sevki79

    Проститутка твоя мать, сестра, дочь, жена и жена брата. Ай исчадие кочевого племени гомогрилов и вакханок.

    Сколька раз говорили вашему племени - не сосите Армянский Хуй...

  • I LOVE ARMANIAN FROM TURKEY

  • as mou pei kapoios pou paizoun auta ta palikaria

  • Proud to be Armenian! <3

  • Good u learnt how to play National Turkish Saz and Ud. Good Job guys keep it up :))

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  • "never imitate"

    HELL YEA!

  • My grandfather came from Armenia. I hope that some day I will visit this country. God bless you!

  • Not all Turks raped and not all turks murdered, mind that.

    Those who speak in general about people, are always wrong, because people are not the same.

    No, i'm no turk, armenian, greek or even middle eastern, i'm far away from you guys, but my point doesn't really requires me to be there.

  • 13 Turks didn't like this song. Looks like they'll have to steal another culture's music and claim it for their own.

    Fantastic Song, friends.

  • Nice music.im From Turkey and we are friendly no problem..Thanks

  • and yes, Turks are asian invading people which took control of the region, found it suitable geographicaly for their needs, occuppied the people and stole their culture. And it has nothing to do with Islam, though, as a coincidence or not, most nations which converted in mass to Islam decided to expand their "borders" and gain supremacy over other peoples

  • Not turks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!

  • I love this.... Awesome job!

  • Im from Tokio. Armenia, Greece and Iran are only ancient countries in this region.

  • God bless all Armenians , greetings from Canada

  • i agree ( i am an Armenian thank you for this music ) i play saz and oud ):)

  • Λ A O Y T A P  X E

  • mercie baucoup mes amis c' set éccélane

  • There is nothing Armenian in this music ... !

  • Thank you for this beautiful music!

  • I did not no that aramenians have it's own music. I am shoked, it is unbeliveable

  • i'm gonna IMITATE them :P

  • ARMENIA GREECE COUSINS 4EVER!!!!!!!!!!! O Greeks of Sivas, we were there together!!!!!!!! Ithikon kicks ASS with this medley. No mistakes. Great chops.

  • Beaultiful music!

  • The qulity of the sounds is so good that it makes the melody much more beautiful than it is!

  • what? you all sound kinda lame

  • udu calan arkadas guzel calmis eline  saglik

  • Guys, can you help me out? I have been searching for this old Armenian song for such a long time, and I can't find it!!! It used to play on the Armenian channel, probably Horizon, here in LA California back in the 1990's. It was a slow, dramatic song, and I only remember part of the lyrics: "Du im sertum es. Im Yeraznerum." And I remember that the commercial featured colored and black-and-white pictures, one of them was a grandmother holding an AK-47 in her lap, probably during Karabakh,

  • I remember this words, it will take me some hours to find the Song

  • @Qwerti60

    Thank you so much. Can you contact me if you find anything please?

  • nice music .i love it.

  • nice music .i love it...

  • It's beautiful. The beautiful music played by very handsome greek men. Thank you so much dear gyus for sharing with us your personal emotions in such a beautiful music. Love and kisses from Poland from Martyna.

  • what's that instrument that looks like a guitar? :)

    it's beast! :D

  • @nukebacon876 Its an Oud

  • Yasoo!!!!!!

  • very good music or the azeri guy im sry his mouth id fool o crap if hes saying something bad ! but very good Armenian music !

  • респект))

  • These guys and this music are great. I'm from the UK but these guys have skill, such nice rythems and melodies. I can imagine a nice grill, smells of cooked meats and relaxation. Great

  • nice performance

  • Sheer mystical beauty. The sounds you are creating with your team are phenomenal. Btw, what tempo are you using? Is it 5/8 or 5/11 or other? Thanks.

  • her biji :)

  • ooo......i like it...

    thanks for nice musik..

  • Sounds very good!

  • bravo re paidia na sixexisete etsi!!!!!!!

  • HOLA ITHICON!!! COMO ESTAS?

  • Armenians and Greeks are brothers!!! so many commons !

  • It's sensational to see difficult music and cultures embracing the beauty of music! Well done once again gents!

  • i love to see greeks on our videos armenian greek brother hood forever

  • That ud player is seriously pissing me off. He makes it look so easy. I feel totally talentess.

    Please mate, just pretend a little bit that you're trying hard.

    Joke aside, thanks to Youtube for making visible such talented musicians.

  • music is lenegon armenian music i play oud my self so i know lenagon is next to yerevan but near the turkish border

  • the best musician.....kosta u are the best!!!

  • armenia forever!!!!!

  • armenian heritage!!!

  • Oh my god what a bueautiful and divine music**

  • Sounds Egyptian because of the Oud. And I could recognize some Egyptian melodeys.

    People come on! Egyptian, Turkish, Armenian. What does it matter we are all Middle Eastern. Ofcourse our music is similar!

  • @SurpSargis

    Dear friend stop putting invented copyright on culture. Culture is shared and sharing is making people go toward peace... The fact that Turks, Armenians, Greeks, Slavs of Balkans share so many things is not a reason for hate, but call for peace and understanding... We are actually the same when you look at it...

  • @Japodian - We are only the same if you look at it from a naive, ignorant standpoint. The only reason Turks seem "similar" to Greeks, Armenians, or Balkan peoples is because they FORCEFULLY INVADED, RAPED AND STOLE FROM THOSE PEOPLE. Remember, Turks migrated from Central Asia. Culturally, they have absolutely NOTHING in common with ancient Anatolians. The only reason they resemble Anatolians today is because of their brutal take over of that area, and that is NOT a reason for celebration!

  • @Intramorph Humans have been exploiting and enslaving each other for a very long time. The British subjugated my Irish ancestors to a point where they were nearly wiped out by famine, raping them of their culture and language. My American forebears heaped injustice and cruel disrespect upon the heads of the Native Americans, whose culture is now almost gone.

    Your culture is beautiful and vibrant, a cause for celebration. Even through the horrors and atrocities, Armenian culture is still alive.

  • @Intramorph - You are so purist and purism leads to racisim. Who are Turks and who are Armenians? Turks have been living in Anatolia for 1000 years but you talk about them as if they came from Mongolia yesterday. 1000 years ago Germans and Frenchs were living under the same state. 1000 years ago English was a language similar to German. 1000 years ago Russians were still ruled by Vikings. The reality is that all the nations and their languages as you know them today formed during this 1000 years

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  • @ealtinta it is interesting to see how biased this info is. With all respect to you, if lest say armenians took parts of Turkey and claimed it is Armenia, you wouldn't be uttering the same words and you would probably have the same reaction as intramorph or any other armenian! were it not as I say, then the Turks wouldn't have killed more than a million armenians. And no, pls, dont bother to tell me there was no genocide, there is footage and enough testimonies... 

  • @Intramorph - If you look at more closely you will see that there were Turkish tribes who converted to Christianity and became Armenians or Greeks and there were Greek or Armenian people who converted to Islam and became Turks. I know you don't like it but before nationalism came to Ottoman Empire there were villages where Turks Greeks and Armenians were living together. Now can you tell me which one of them created this song? You like it or not we share the same culture.

  • They stole from our culture turks are rats mongolian barberic tribes have no culture just kill rape and take over civilized poeple. Armeians and Greeks are the foundations of humanity. Get educated you dumbass.

  • @spacejunk5 Your grandmother was also moaning these words while raped by my grandfather. Your father is the bastard of that rape.

  •  Fuck your turkish blood and muslim vains. you are a rat son of a fucking turkish rat .

  • @Intramorph - Finally even if we assume Turks came to Anatolia yesterday from Mongolia with their horses and invaded it. Today Turkey is the main place where this culture really lives. You claim the ownership of this culture how do you want to make it live without Turks? Do you think this culture will survive in LA or in Paris? You cannot grow a cactus around Amazon river or make a fir tree live in a desert. You need Anatolia and Turks if you really like this culture.

  • @ealtinta Not really. This music is well and alive in Armenia. Armenia has even deeper folk music than this. Turks claiming this is like English Americans claiming Native American culture as theirs. True, Turkey has this culture today, but in Ottoman times, Islam limited the creation of music to muslims. Most folk songs in Turkey is based on Greek, Armenian and modern Arabic.

    Most Osmanli march songs were composed by Armenians as well and Istanbul music is almost purely Greek.

  • @Arzive Information given by you about music and Islam and music and Ottoman society is not true either. First of all there is no such thing as music ban in Islam. Even Usama would not claim this. There are very reliable sources which says that Prophet Muhammad himself allowed music. Second Ottoman Islam tradition was the most liberal of its time. Even there was not an alcohol ban during Ottoman times. Sufi Islam which most of the Turks embrace, is wholly based on music.

  • @Arzive Mawlawiyah order was the main place where Istanbul court music was developed. Go and search for Hamamizade Ismail Dede, Zekai Dede, Itri. Even Sultan Selim III himself was one of the greatest composers of Ottoman classical music. In later periods Tanburi Cemil, Listen to these: QEiZiOkfctc vCyJsvnE7qA STz3xLAvDug For more secular examples: gaL5qGtLoes L4l4Et9g9BE kGbeEkgea7A .

  • @Arzive Check these for sufi music from Turkey in Ottoman Turkish. Mawlawi: ipbvzfPP4YM Bektashi: 2sJ2ltG8IOk Jerrahi: HguWFB5SueE I can write 10 other Sufi order with their musics but it is not necessary. In addition even today one third of population of Turkey is Alevi, who also use music in their religious ceromonies: 5PdjK1cyIls . Finally look at these two religious music pieces from a mass in a mosque and a church: Mgd-QgG_8uQ bEfmhTemgvA .

  • @ealtinta Think about the Huns, who were nomadic too. When they saw the civilized world of Rome, and conquered parts of it, they copied its culture, adopted it for themselves. The same applied to Turcomen who took over Anatolia and Persia. They absorbed the culture of native Anatolians and Persians.

    The amount of Turcomen who converted to Christianity and became Armenian is very slim. People don't assimilate into people they rule in their own country and forget their identity.

  • @Arzive So why not the Turks in Anatolia look like Huns or Mongolian or even like Uzbeks? Even if we accept Turcomen did not became Armenians, how come Turks did not forced Armenians to convert or take Armenian women as slaves or even rape them if they were so barbaric? The fact is that current Turkish population is a mixture of many different ethnicities including Armenians. I had a friend whose grandfathers were Armenians and he knew this but they converted to Islam possibly after 1915.

  • @ealtinta They don't look like Turkic peoples because Turks in Anatolia are, like you said, mostly turncoats and assimilated peoples. But Turkcomen didn't become Greek or Armenian, Armenians and Greeks became Turcomen (Turks).

    If all this is Turkic music, then why is it that of all Turkic nations in the world, only Turkey has this type of music? Central Asian music is very different.

  • @Arzive I don't say this is Turkic music. What I say is that what we have as a common Anatolian culture which was not here thousand years ago. This culture as we know it today is the common production of all the people who lived in Anatoli in the last thousand years. It should also be true that sedentary people of Anatolia contributed more to it as they already had a more civilized living when Turks came. But as you said everyone started as nomadic at one point.

  • @Arzive So I would not accept if some nationalists try to use the situation 1000 years ago to claim that they are more civilized than other people. No one can claim that Turks did not convert anyone or there was not any pressure at any time against the local people. However one should not compare people who lived 1000 years ago not with the developed countries in 2010 but with the other people and countries who lived at the same time with them.