Ayas

Contact: ataurvan@mail.ru Unreleased recording: - "Dazan Bacht (The Cruel Fate)" (1991; track listing: Dareri Hetkov Gna/ Dazan Bacht (The Cruel Fate)/ Растерзанные Трупы/ Arevi Schocheri Tak.../ Vaedemna/ The Cruel Fate (Dazan Bacht)/ Etyud) Formed as a band without name in 1986 with the following lineup: Arthur Areskin - vocals, Yuri Torosyan - Guitars, Armen Eghiazaryan - bass, Egishe Marutyan - drums, Arthur Mitinyan - keyboards. In January of 1987 they were named Farvatter and in March of 1987 they finally became Ayas . They took their name from an Armenian sea ship from the medieval town of the same name in Cilicia (a province of Armenia, now in Türkiye). The name was suggested to Arthur by the theater director Lev Oganesyan. Split-up in 1995, when Arthur Mitinyan relocated to Moscow; reformed in 2008 when he returned in Yerevan. Some Russian sources list additional albums in their discography, but probably they are unfinished/aborted projects and were never completed: - "Iphigenia in Aulis" (1993, a rock opera, most likely an Arthur Mitinyan solo project) - "Gaush Urvan" (1995. At least one song was recorded: Vaedemna) There is also a DVD ("Earth and Sky Orchestral") recorded in 2010 with the Philarmonic Orchestra of Armenia