“When money becomes a purpose and a value”
Sorrow, melancholy, wrath, outcry and grief, leap of soul and also love...endless love and purity, strive toward nature, perfection and the harmony of body and soul.
This is what David Amalyan's art is all about. He is not after formalities. He prefers content and doesn't accept the so-called "show business" at all.
"Show is a form and business is money. When the two mix, you lose purpose and value," said David Amalyan during an interview with "A1+".
According to him, Armenians' system of values is distorted and it has been taken away artificially.
"This is not our government's problem. This was the major purpose of the big, foreign powers to have an Armenia without a culture that would make Armenia truly independent."
David Amalyan says Armenians today lack culture, but culture is not only art. It is a profession, a human being and culture is a person's means of communication.
According to Amalyan, the lack of culture is due to the appreciation of materials. He divides today's singers into two groups-those who are still singing after everything and those who are already singing.
There are few things that David Amalyan is afraid of. He is afraid of people who want to become leaders through false words, as well as betrayal.
"Betrayal is within our culture. A serious betrayal took place in Armenia 12 years ago, that is, October 27. I would like the government to reveal that. I don't want to believe that the government did that. Everyone knows that those who did it were foreign powers who didn't want to see a strong Armenia. I wanted to see all contributing forces punished."
David Amalyan is horrified by traitors who can change values based on a political conjecture. "I'm horrified by those who used to hang Vazgen Sargsyan's photo on their walls and are now working against Vazgen and his brothers. I'm afraid of them. They are very dangerous. They are neither part of the HHSh nor the HHK nor the Dashnaktsutyun. They are a different sort."
The events of March 1-2 have also left a trace in David Amalyan's soul and they have impacted him to compose a song based on poet Yeghishe Charents's words.
"I was thinking about the lyrics. I read Charents's poetry and found the following: "As my country is in sorrow, as my country is misfortunate, as my country is in ruins and blood, so my heart is in sorrow...it is as if Charents had written those lines on March 2. I experienced greater pain after seeing that Charents had experienced the same in the beginning of the last century. It was an actual problem in the early 20th century and I regret to see that it could be actual 100 years later as well," says David Amalyan.
One gets the impression that it is hard for an intellectual to live in these days, but David Amalyan is living an easy life because he loves and is loved and is among those who love him. "I'm a happy person."
But it is hard for him in the sense of seeing injustice and the decline of morality. He doesn't watch the news. "It is pointless. They report about earthquakes, murders or that Aliyev said he is going to attack." David Amalyan feels sad when he imagines that the country may lose its boys again, but he is sure that peace will be enduring.
He expressed greetings to his friends in combat Sasun Mikayelyan and noted that God will give repentance for the difficulties. If a war breaks out, will the freedom-fighters fight after seeing all this injustice? In response, David Amalyan said: "Of course they will. Getting offended by the government and not defending the homeland is the mindset of a psychologically ill person; in other words, who are you offended by? The homeland is like your mother."
David Amalyan didn't wish to speak about today's intellectuals. "The intellectuals are the men buried at Yerablur," said Amalyan and closed the subject.
"A1+" had a long interview with David Amalyan. He talked about the army, his friends in combat, song and expressed confidence that one day there will be a revolution, at least a cultural one. David Amalyan sees the potential in the new generation.
David Amalyan will present his 23 songs during his solo concert to be held at the Aram Khachatryan Large Concert Hall on March 2 and 3.
