Arto Tunçboyacıyan

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Arto Tunçboyacıyan Արտո Թունչբոյաջյան

Background information
Born	1957 Galataria, Turkey
Genre(s)	Avant-garde folk Armenian Folk
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter, performer, producer
Instrument(s)	Percussion, duduk, sazabo, bular, beer bottle
Years active	1968 – present
Associated acts	Armenian Navy Band Serart
Website	Artoistan

Arto Tunçboyacıyan (Armenian: Արտո Թունչբոյաջյան) (born 1957 in Galataria, Turkey, a small village just outside Istanbul)^[1]^[2] is a Turkish musician of Armenian descent of the Anatolian root. A famous avant-garde folk artist (singer, multi-instrumentalist), he appeared on more than 200 records in Europe before arriving in the United States, where he went to work with numerous jazz legends including Chet Baker, Al Di Meola, and Joe Zawinul as well as a semi-regular stint with Paul Winter and the Earth Band. Arto fronts his own group called the Armenian Navy Band (ANB). He also worked with Turkish singer Sezen Aksu and the Greek singer Eleftheria Arvanitaki. His brother Onno Tunç was also a musician.

His 2001 album Aile Muhabbeti was used as soundtrack in two films: Hemşo (2001) and Mon père est ingénieur (2004).

Serart is one of Arto Tunçboyacıyan's latest efforts, a collaboration between him and Serj Tankian (singer of the alternative metal band System of a Down), who have found common ground in shared Armenian backgrounds and a passion for sonic explorations in creating music that is claimed to be "completely new."

There is a hidden track on the album Toxicity by System of a Down (right after the song Aerials), where Arto contributed, with the band playing a traditional Armenian Church hymn, Der Voghormya (Lord Have Mercy). This track is commonly known as Arto, seeing as he was a significant part of it. He also played the instrumental part of Science in the same album, and his voice can be heard a couple of times in the interlude of Bubbles, from Steal This Album!

1 Discography
- 1.1 Arto Tunçboyaciyan
- 1.2 Armenian Navy Band
2 References
3 External links
- 3.1 Video

[edit] Discography

[edit] Arto Tunçboyaciyan

1986 - Night Ark, Picture, RCA/Novus
1988 - Night Ark, Moments, RCA/Novus
1989 - Virgin Land, Keytone Records/Svota Music
1994 - Main Root, Keytone Records/Svota Music
1996 - Tears of Dignity (with Ara Dinkjian), Svota Music
1998 - Onno, Svota Music, 1998
1998 - Triboh (with M. P. de Vito and R. Marcotulli), PoloSud
1998 - Avci, Svota Music/Imaj Müzik
1998 - In Wonderland, Polygram
2000 - Night Ark, Petals on your Path, EmArcy
2000 - Every Day is a New Life, Living Music/Earth Music Production
2001 - Aile Muhabbeti, Svota Music
2003 - Serart (with Serj Tankian), Sony Music
2004 - Türkce sözlü hafif anadolu müzigi, Imaj Müzik/Svota Music/Heaven and Earth
2005 - Artostan, Svota Music/ Heaven and Earth
2005 - Love Is Not In Your Mind (with Vahagn Hayrapetyan), Svota Music/Heaven and Earth

[edit] Armenian Navy Band

1999 - Bzdik Zinvor, Svota Music
2001 - New Apricot, Svota Music
2004 - Sound of our life part I - "Natural Seeds", Svota Music / Heaven and Earth