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ESC 2015 ARMENIA: ESSAI'S VIDEO MESSAGE TO BLOGILKAR READERS

Essaï Altounian, the French and European link in the Armenian supergroup Genealogy was kind enough to send this exclusive message to my readers. Enjoy!

ESC 2015 IN VIENNA - DAY 5: ARMENIA

Armenia bathes in purple light all through the performance. The singers wander around when doing their solo parts, then unite in coupes and do some joint choreography before going all together in a circle in the instrumental part and vocally seems much better and less shouty and chaotic now. The tree waves in the backdrops and there are also some ancient graphic motives rolling around. Better than I expected but I'm not still a fan of this song.....  Being Armenia this sails to the final anyways.

ESC 2015 IN VIENNA - DAY 1: ARMENIA BRINGS BACK THE APRICOT TREE

Well, it's actually the genelogical tree I guess. Apparently quite a simple performance where the singers are separated, then united and then spread across the world - highlighted by the world map in the floor where they end up standing in different parts of the world, where they come from obviously. They don't do much but there are pyros, wind machines, smoke and clever camera shots that make this a visual feat. All is very purprle and pink, and the ladies are wearing traditional Armenian jewelry, of course. The song's in a musical style because it was the only way to unite all these different artists and their singing styles from opera to pop, rock and r'n'b. I still think it's a shouty mess but at least it looks pretty, I guess.