CONCERT: OstWind elektronisch: NGA Lounge + Tusja Beridze (NBA)

OstWind elektronisch: NGA Lounge + Tusja Beridze (NBA)


Nikakoi, Tusja & Gogi (v.l.n.r.)

Da die Moderne im Bereich Tanz und Theater in Georgien eher zaghaft Einzug hält, übernimmt vor allem die elektronische Musik eine gewisse Avantgarde-Funktion. Elektronische Musik, wie sie die Künslter Gogi Ge.org, Nikakoi und Tusja Beridze (TBA) in Leipzig präsentierten, ist im eigenen Land gerade im Kommen, auf internationalem Boden aber schon länger sehr erfolgreich. Zwar füllte vor Jahren Nikakoi einmal die Destillery (ein hiesiger Club), doch sind die Musiker auf einer herkömmliche Bühne aufgestellt, dann findet das Publikum kaum den Weg dorthin - oder lag es etwa am Tatort, der zur selben Zeit im Fernsehen lief. Nichts destotrotz war es ein wunderbares Konzert, welches die drei befreundeten Künstler über drei Stunden sehr relaxed und aufgeschlossen 'über die Bühne zog'- phantastisch.

"New release on Thomas Brinkmann's Max Ernst label by Georgian musician TBA. TBA is Natalie Beridze, also called Tusja Beridze ... 'Tibilisi (Georgia) getto child, very beautiful and lonely, talented and deathly woundet ... her sad eyes saw too much ugly things, putting all energy into her music ... just to survive and to give all her rejected love with 21 songs back to the world ...' (The Wire.UK). 'TBA is the Georgien word for lake ... this water is a really deep ... a vortex, from the shores of the black sea right into your heart. Check it out.' (Blaster DJ Magazine.AU)."

"24 year old female music producer from Tbilisi / Georgia, also known as a member of Goslab, a Georgian art laboratory. Her academic education in political and media sciences at American Institutes went in radically different direction from art and music. but it constantly appeared to be a strong challenge surrounding around her, starting from her family, ending with friends and people she worked with, such as Nika Machaidze aka Nikakoi (WFM Rec.) Erast (Laboratory instinct) and Gogi Dzodzuashvili (aka Post Industrial Boys), who used Tusias' vocals and lyrics in most of their songs. Tusia grew up within a space, which is something like an erratic mixture of controversial and at the same time logical records, which leads to a mixed Georgian, Russian and European production. It initiated in childhood under the tunes of The Smiths, Lou Reed, Weather Report, David Bowie, Cocteau Twins, Bjork, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Jeff Mills, Autechre, Kraftwerk, Georgian folk music and much more, which came out transformed from the rough speakers of Soviet production in the tiny studio space of Goslab, which appeared to be a shelter and a medium for translating brutal external reality into the means to survive within it. This was the soundtrack of the political and social transformations in Georgia. From Georgian monarchs to Russian ones, from the collapse of Soviet colonial blockade to the undermined democracy, independence in poverty and finally to 'satin revolution' of the transmitting forcelines. The 21 tracks from the TBA album are precise and straight sketches of the background between such different cultural influences, from the edge, between Asia, Russia and the so called western world. Music from the geographical top (Kaukasus) and very end of Europe in the south east, where despite the whole external chaos, it rounds up with one clear sentence: Georgia is like a spiritual Tokyo. (http://www.forcedexposure.com/)."

"TBA lists among her influences Bjork, Aphex Twin, The Smiths, Squarepusher, Cocteau Twins, and Kraftwerk. Annule, Tusia’s second release on the max.Ernst label, is certainly reflective of this. The beats are quite grey and often cold and simple. Yet that’s not to say they are without emotion and variety. Rather the sounds help place you in Tusia’s world, a world that seems full of political and economical strife, heartfelt music, and strong ties to family and friends. Tusia compliments the moments of mechanized beats with jazzy beats and odds and ends such as the super speedy piano track that opens the disc and “Sign Powder” which is a collection of sounds from a movie soundtrack TBA is working on. Sometimes this CD sounds like a video game soundtrack, while other times the music is reminiscent of a 1920s saloon for robots. Most of these songs are overlaid with Tusias’ soft-spoken, almost invisible vocals. The quiet, almost melancholy style in which Tusias sings goes very well with the sorrow-tinged atmosphere of most of Annule. After reading the liner notes for Annule, themes reveal themselves that were unapparent from hearing the music alone. Particularly striking to me is the title track with its reference to a rejected Visa and therefore an inability to leave one’s country for a particular destination. From the liner notes: “ [Annule] is about a feeling which is not very common in the Western world. Standing in rows for weeks and waiting for a visa, cause there is something important which you cannot reach without a visa and it’s not about economy.” In many ways Annule bridges the western music of her influences and her Eastern European surroundings. I like this combination, and if you are looking for a dreamy trip into a world of unique emotion and color, I think you will too. (http://www.explodingplastic.com/) "

www.max-ernst.de

www.goslab.de














Links:

* Musik aus einem kulturellen Schmelztiegel
* Gogi.ge.org/Post Industrial Boys
* GOSLAB bei ARTE
* »Shentimental« by Nikakoi
* Georgische Melancholie (Sestrichka by Nikakoi)
* Interview mit Nikakoi
* GOSLAB
* Post-Techno-Familie: Neues aus dem WMF-Label
* Nikakoi bedeutet "niemand" auf Russisch