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For Gyumri is the 3rd extended play by Tigran Hamasyan and was released 16 February 2018.[1][2][5][6] Tigran considers this EP a companion work to his 8th album An Ancient Observer, which was released the year before.[1][5][3][7] Similarly to An Ancient Observer, this work is mostly solo piano with use of sparing vocals.[1] The album is named after the city Gyumri and is where Tigran was born.[2][5][6] This was his 3rd release on Nonesuch Records, with the two previous releases being An Ancient Observer and Mockroot.[8] Tigran said that this album "... is an ode to my birthplace, the town that nourished my childhood world with great experiences and made me who I am".[8] He performed this EP in Royce Hall at University of California, Los Angeles, and part of the proceeds went to the Children of Armenia Fund.[9][10][11]

For Gyumri
EP by Tigran Hamasyan
Released	2018
Genre	Armenian folk music, Jazz fusion and other styles[1][2]
Length	29:34
Label	Nonesuch Records[1][2]
Tigran Hamasyan chronology
An Ancient Observer (2017) For Gyumri (2018) They Say Nothing Stays The Same (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019)

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Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	[2]
PopMatters	[3]
AllMusic	[4]

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