MADRID, 1 One. (EUROPA PRESS) –
With his violin and his new album ‘Petit Garage’ in his suitcase, the violinist Ara Malikian has welcomed 2021 and an exceptional welcome to the travelers who arrived this Friday at the Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas airport, with a mini concert that has surprised everyone.
The artist has confessed, in statements to Europa Press Television, that what they wanted to convey with this action is their wish that “we can soon return to normality, where it is possible to travel again, discover other countries, other cultures, other cities and to be able to make music around the world. “
The violinist has chosen this place where all his tours around the world begin, to present his new album ‘Petit Garage’, with an emotional welcome to “a hopeful year”.
“It is the only thing that remains for us right now, hope; it has been a difficult year and we do not know what will happen and, therefore, what we have left is hope,” he emphasized.
Malikian explained that he has created this album in a pandemic, “for all the time” he has had “to enjoy at his family’s home” and, at the same time, to be inspired by everything that happened.
“Of course, all that inspires you and affects you, be it positive or negative and that, in music you listen to, makes the songs more intimate, smaller, they are hopeful but not so open,” he said.
The violinist has highlighted the ‘Nana Wrinkled’, one of the “most important” songs that he has composed in confinement for his new album and that “is dedicated to all those infected” by Covid in this health crisis.
In addition, the pandemic has forced the artist to stop his tour of more than 60 countries with the show ‘Royal Garage World Tour’, which had to be reinvented and become the intimate ‘Petit Garage’
“On the tour we have reinvented ourselves and it has given us a lot of happiness, especially thanks to the audience that has given us a lot of inspiration and joy” he celebrated.
THE CULTURE HIT IN THE PANDEMIC
Ara Malikian has recognized that the pandemic “has hit culture very hard”, since he lamented that, “unfortunately”, “the first thing that is questioned is the importance of culture but at the same time” he has argued, ” has shown that in the pandemic what gave people the most joy was precisely the culture. “
“We realized that we cannot live without culture. In the long term I am not worried because I know that culture has survived in the centuries before pandemics, wars, dictators and censorship, but in the short term, it is true that it is very worrying for all the colleagues who are without work, “he admitted.
For all this, Malikian by 2021 the first thing he asks “is health”, ensuring that “this is the most important thing for everyone” and for his sector, he wishes “that culture be taken care of more”.
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