Hi. Habrban is hosting 
Areg and Vardan from the LSD band.
Hello, Areg; hello, Vardan.
Hello.
Hello.
Can you please tell us 
a little bit about your band?
When was it founded? 
What's the overall concept of it?
The idea of it came to us in 2004.
We started playing in 2005, 
we're playing for a long time,
members in the band always change.
The reason to that rotation is
that the concept of the band 
is to constantly work on new projects,
have jam sessions,
exchange experience, etc.
Talking about the genre of your music. 
What genre do you associate your music with?
Well, after Vardan joined us
he joined us in 2012 and we had a seperate project,
then he joined our main line up
and from then on, 
Vardan brought ambient sounds with him...
Experimental...
In gerenal, it's improvisation.
Before, around 2005
there were projects that were more like punk music,
still experimental...
but now we play mainly improvisation.
The primary members of the band were:
Guru, Areg, Arsen and Qyach, Aram and...
Was Simon there? The drummer?
No, he joined later.
Yeah, Simon joined later.
Now we play with Kay, Daniel is playing wiht us...
Yeah... Now it leans more towards free improvisation.
What's you overall creative process like?
It has to be experimetnal.
Mhm... Vardan?
I think the most important part is 
the initial setup that we do.
We join in with our instruments,
make sure everything's okay with the sound.
The rest is easy, someone starts the grove
and the rest join in,
everyone has something to say, everyone plays,
the most important thing is the contact,
to feel each other, to understand each other.
Very often you feel alone playing in the band,
here you feel the music together.
Each of you have a different background.
I know, Vardan has an acedemic background, 
you (Areg) played in a different music style.
Can you tell us a little bit 
about your musical experience
and the process of growing as a musician?
Yeah, I played punk... Armenian punk.
We were very often banned because of our lyrics,
but it was long time ago.
Then... I think I had no background after.
Yeah! We have a side project with Vardan,
it's called International Monks.
We play Armenian music, compose it, combine it.
Yeah, I guess you can call it 
modified Armenian pop music.
Vardan on his own, with some of 
the members and friends from LSD union,
has 2 projects.
One is electronic music - Spectrum, 
the other one is Flower Lover
this one is better defined 
and we'll pay more attention to that.
I don't know, 
Vardan on his own plays metal, art rock,
he's a music composer kind of guy.
Music composer kind of guy...
Yeah, I graduated from the Conservatory.
But I basically compose no academic music.
I'm more in the field of experimental music.
But I think after an academic education
it's very interesting 
to work on experimental contemporary music like this,
not in the academic sense of it.
I remember in Conservatory 
when I used to write music,
then I had to go and find musicians.
I remember I wrote a piece for a quartette
and I was thinking, 
where am I going to find those 4 people to play this.
And here, you've got the people.
You want to do a quartette - you do it,
you want to do a trio - you do it,
you want to do noise music... Anything you want.
You want to play jazz, you can.
You collaborate with different people,
 you play different music.
It's interesting on its own.
Thank you for playing for Habran and 
telling us about your band.
Thank you for coming and filming us,
I hope it's a good music material.
Thank you.
