Artsakh Soul Sound

Bands that never were. Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) was an Armenian enclave that fell to Azerbaijan in 2023. I wish that I'd stumbled upon Artsakh Soul Sound on Spotify, but the truth is that the voices and instruments are AI-generated, the poetry and arrangements are mine.
I'm not Armenian, but I had the honor of visiting Stepanakert and fell in love with everything I beheld. The fall of the democratic republic, ethnic cleansing, mass exodus of the region became overshadowed by the Israeli ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. Artsakh has been, as they say, relegated to a footnote in history.
None of that changes that I lost friends in that war and there are souls very dear to me that I don't know if they are dead or alive, living in a refugee camp somewhere or fled to another country. I share this music here because, as I wait for, as Siamanto put it, bloody news from my friends, this world needs all the blessings that we can get, even if they are computer generated.