{"id":18060,"date":"2025-11-11T13:28:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-rawiya.com\/?p=18060"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:52:11","slug":"fann-w-fenjein-vladimir-kurumilian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-rawiya.com\/ar\/fann-w-fenjein-vladimir-kurumilian\/","title":{"rendered":"Fann w Fenjein: Vladimir Kurumilian"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Vladimir Kurumilian on the Art of Escape<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Foreword: Between stillness and movement, memory and release, pianist and composer Vladimir Kurumilian<\/a>\u2019s Escape<\/em> unfolds as both confession and contemplation. First written years ago as a quiet refuge from reality, the piece returns now as a raw reflection on coping and transformation, an early pulse in the evolving rhythm of Kurumilian\u2019s upcoming album Mo(ve)ment<\/em>.<\/p>

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Reimagined through the lens of time and experience, Escape<\/em> bridges the personal and the collective, tracing the fractures of displacement, loss, and resilience that define life in the region. Its accompanying visualizer, filmed through rippling glasses of water, distorts and refracts Kurumilian\u2019s image much like memory itself. In this conversation, he reflects on returning to sound after years of pause, the symbolism of water, and how movement in all its forms becomes both resistance and release.<\/p>

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You describe Escape as a deeply personal piece, almost meditative. What emotional or creative space were you in when you revisited it?<\/strong><\/p>

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I had initially started the album with a completely new piece, as a personal response to everything that has unfolded over the past few years; it felt more like an urge, an attempt to avoid feeling completely helpless, a means to share in both the pain and the anger.<\/p>

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Escape started as a place to hide, written back at a moment when I wanted to step out of reality.<\/p>

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Revisiting it years later, I wasn\u2019t trying to run anymore; my perception evolved and I was rather trying to understand that feeling. As the album took shape and its narrative became clearer, including Escape within the storyline became a conscious choice.\u2026 It simply made sense. It wasn’t just an old sketch anymore, but a pivotal moment in the story.<\/p>

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The piece feels like it carries both stillness and turbulence \u2014 moments of calm interrupted by <\/strong>tension. Was that contrast intentional?<\/strong><\/p>

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Escape carries calm on the surface, but underneath there\u2019s this obsessive repetition, a loop that won\u2019t let you fully settle and could go on indefinitely if you let it. I chose not only to preserve that duality from the original demo, but to accentuate it through the music production this time. It tricks you into expecting a linear melody, yet the repetition keeps circling back, building tension\u2026 It\u2019s like being stuck in the very thought you\u2019re trying to outrun; at least that\u2019s how it feels for me.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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