Radiohead, Sting, -M-, Astor Piazzolla, Nina Simone, Bajofondo Tangoclub, Cesaria Evora, Regina Spektor, Riccardo Cocciante, Mos Def, Blonde Redhead, Gogol Bordello, The Knife, Ben Harper, Cat Stevens, Bjork, Jim Croce, Jesca Hoop, Charles Anzavour, Michel Berger, The Police, Jacques Brel, Serge Gainsbourg, ZaZa, Tori Amos, Monir Vakili, Manu Chao, The Beatles, Veronique Sanson...
Arian was born and raised in the Bay. He would sit under his mother's piano while she sang and played, and he'd scream and cry until she stopped. Though he may have won then, like all great love stories, the music won eventually...
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As a teenager Arian began writing songs and poetry and composing scores for plays and short films. He fell in love with theater and the movies and chased them to LA where he founded the sketch troupe Six Finger Fist with some friends (www.sixfingerfist.com). Along with writing, acting, editing and directing the films with the rest of the group, Arian wrote the music and songs for every film they made. The early version of the song Lesson Learned came from one such film, "Soundtrack of my Life", and he's received great acclaim and attention for the scores to "Misfortune Cookies" and "How to Raise a Child and Other Acts of Levitation".
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After a few years in LA, Arian moved to Paris to finish a few screenplays he'd been working on. In the move out of Los Angeles and the time in France, songs began to form. Slowly at first and then with such unexpected force that Arian returned to the States with both his screenplays completed and a newfound love of songwriting that seemed to overwhelm the other forms of storytelling he'd been chasing all these years.
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For him it was music that perfectly, effortlessly distilled the moments in life that were meant to be remembered, reflected, revised. The right piece of music can give a name to something that before was only ever felt.
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So Arian continues to write and play, chasing the right piece of music, if only just to hear it once...
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