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It also chronicles his personal quest to have the Armenian Genocide formally recognized by all governments, a call for justice for the estimated more than one million Armenians who died during the massacre and forced deportation by the Ottoman Empire starting in 1915. The film was directed by Los Angeles-based Armenian American filmmaker Garin Hovannisian and profiles Tankian’s advocacy work. 19 (and will be released on video on demand on April 27). “Electric Yerevan” is also featured in the documentary Tankian produced, “Truth to Power,” which was released in some theaters and on limited streaming on Feb. “At that time, I had written a post on social media, which was word-for-word the middle part of what I say in that song.” “There were protests called the Electric Yerevan and I was so inspired by those protests,” he said of the successful mass push that occurred that summer against electricity rate hikes within Armenia. Tankian said he’s also proud of “Electric Yerevan,” which was inspired by System of a Down performing for the first time in Armenia in 2015 to mark the centennial of the Armenian Genocide. It would have not been cool to release some of these other songs without it.”
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So it became a message of the poet Rumi to the world along with my messages to my son,” he says. “I’d play something and he’d make a sound and so the demos were originally this sort of musical interaction between us, and then I realized there’s a beauty in that.