Album Notes

"A couple of days ago I was listening to an arrangement, by Arpie Dadoyan, titled "Ov Bidi Lseh? Hok Che Yerke Toon", which loosely translates to: " Who will listen to you? but sing anyway". Well, just today, in my daily reading, I chanced upon the answer to Dadoyan's yearning clearly reflected in the following prophetic line of that said hymn. "... tell me the old, old story for those who know it best, hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest." My take? -- When artistic expression of any human being is not conditionally forged upon a targeted audience's receptive embrace, the detachment from its results always attracts the most satiated souls out of the clouds to hearken, ad infinitum, the "same-old-story" with child-like wonder and glee. That my friends is, simply, beatific divine intervention. Just think! think!! need to think here."
Posted by Sprezzatura 6/2/10

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"there is an innocence and simplicity to the recording which is endearing in this day of ultra technological sophistication.

after your first listen, you find yourself pushing the play button again immediately. you are not exactly sure why, but you feel that there was something urgently personal, just for you, in what you just heard and you want to go back and find it.

while listening the second time, something in your being opens up and feels warm and soft. the sorrow within you makes peace with the joy within you, and then you push the button one more time...

and then there are the songs she has chosen. ah! for all generations it will be the nostalgia of the collective unconscious, that reacts to these songs.

and then there is her voice...

possibly I described too much, but it is beautiful, romantic, nostalgic, playful, and finally, arpie's joy and love for singing shines thru and becomes contagious.

in the end you think you too can sing and find yourself singing her songs even when the world is falling apart around you."

betty

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"I just heard your CD and I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My friend and I listened to it over and over again during our drive back to LA and I can't tell you enough how refreshing it was. The ease of your voice, the choices of the songs and the tenderness of the delivery without dramatics is simply wonderful."

Vahe
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"Beautiful CD....100% Arpie"

ra
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"...interesting moments and arrangements in the program, it sounds original in it's theatrical context. In some songs her row voice gives the authenticity and charm, the texts are fun to listen to..."

MD