French Connection Leads To Scotland

FRENCH CONNECTION LEADS TO SCOTLAND

Herald Scotland

Jan 20 2012

TIGRAN Hamasyan is describing how, as an Armenian experiencing the
culture shock of being transplanted to Los Angeles, he managed to
make connections that took him out of the house and on to the stage.

Not knowing anyone and feeling isolated as he confined himself to
lonely piano practice, he suddenly noticed that a familiar name was
playing in town and decided to go down to the club.

“It’s going to sound weird but there I was in Los Angeles, where
there’s any number of great musicians,” he says. “But I actually
had to use a connection I’d made in France to start meeting people
in America. Of course once I’d met and heard some people, I started
getting out to play and life became easier but in the beginning, it
was hard. I spent my first year in the US just playing and writing
music by myself.”