VIDEO: "Live@Twilight" #7 with TeTe Noise (youtube.com)

(youtube.com) TeTe Noise: I don't have any philosophy, but all my life I've dreamt that i can fly, and that I know what it means to fly. In lots of dreams I leave earth. I often dream that I'm in a surrounded by people in tuxedoes, holding drinks in their hands, and I know I could shut them all up in one go. They don't want me there.Then I'm on tiptoes and I let myself go, I just take off and I end up on the ceiling. And then ... I swoop down to the floor and fly up again, and everyone says, "Oh!" Then I turn elegantly at the wall. I dream that the people are all speechless, watching me, a man, fly. Or I dream that I'm flying over mountains. That's a classic. My Music has shown it from the start. In the studio I close my eyes, I ave my hand on the fader, and I try to form the sounds. I send them through the speakers like a bird flying. That's not a philosophy, more like primitive dream to make the music fly because I'm flying.

Soundscapes:

tetenoise

tetenoise_artisterium

TéTé and Tsotne Gogitidze

vimeo.com/tetenoise

LOOKING FOR FUND: MARIA AND THE OCEANS by Natalie beridze/tba and Uta Bekaia

Leipzig, 2004: Wee invited Tusia Beridze and Nika Machaidze to Germany for playing their music and sounds during our festival OFF EUROPA (bfot.de). It was amazing! It was for me the first real contact with Tusia and Nikakoi. Later I followed their artwork. There was some concerts in Germany too ... together with Gudrun Guth (www.m-enterprise.de) for example... And some years ago I could meet the people for our small film for the German TV (MDR) in Tbilisi again. (VIDEO: youtube.com) 


Now I will support the new project by Natalie Beridze and Uta Bekaia. AND otherwise I recommend in facebook, twitter and in other virtual places all my friends and people to do the same for this good artists - to getting find funds!! Also a small FUND can help to realize the PROJECT: MARIA AND THE OCEANS by Natalie beridze/tba and Uta Bekaia - A Music project in New York, NY by Paata U. Bekaia 


ABOUT THIS PROJECT: 
 "Maria and the oceans" is a music album, of 13 songs, produced by electronic music producer, composer and singer Natalie Beridze/TBA and a multimedia artist and costume designer Uta Bekaia. 
This project is a long-distance collaboration between New York and Tbilisi, Georgia, which was basically created via internet. Natalie produced music and prepared the arrangement in her studio and later sent it to Uta, to NY. they worked on lyrics separately and combined them like a patchwork afterwords. in the end Uta recorded vocals and sent them back to Natalie in Tbilisi for mixing. 
"Maria and the oceans" is a multimedia project, consisting of music, music videos (director Nika Machaidze) and costumes (by Uta Bekaia), which are going to be created and used exclusively for videos, cover artwork and future live performances. 
The album is ready in terms of music. we need funds for shooting TWO VIDEOS, that will come along with the album. 
We've chosen a visionary Georgian director and musician Nika Machaidze (nikakoi), who we've worked with many times before. We're very much hoping to receive support.


Source: kickstarters.com

FERNSEHEN: Backstage - goslab. Ein neidvoller Blick auf Georgien und das Künstlernetzwerk goslab. (arte.tv)

Source: www.arte.tv

Ausschnitte der Reportage sehen (realvideo - 2 Min.10)

Tiflis: Millionenstadt zwischen Europa und Asien, zwischen Postkommunismus und Westorientierung. Der musikalische Aufbruch findet in Nikas Zimmer statt. Seine Tracks mixt er am Computer. In Georgien, einem Land in dem immer wieder der Strom ausfällt, war Nika einer der ersten, die mit elektronischer Musik experimentiert haben. 1999 hatte er seinen ersten Erfolg im Ausland.

Nika: "Irgendjemand erzählte mir von einem Festival in Paris und bat mich, ihm CDs zu geben. Ich gab ihm welche und habe es dann aber vergessen. Nach drei oder vier Monaten bekam ich eine Email in der stand, dass ich den Grand Prize beim Electronic Music Festival in Paris gewonnen hatte. Ich konnte mich überhaupt nicht erinnern und wusste nicht, was für ein Preis das sein sollte – und dann ist es mir wieder eingefallen und dann war ich in Paris."

Zwei Jahre später nahm ihn das Berliner Label wmf records nach einem Live-Auftritt unter Vertrag. Alias Nikakoi. Der Track "City lights" war wochenlang auf Platz 1 der deutschen Chill-out-Charts. Melancholie aus Georgien. In Georgien war nach dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion auch die Kulturszene zusammen gebrochen. Nika ergriff gemeinsam mit Gio, seinem besten Freund und Mitbewohner, selbst die Initiative. Sie gründeten das Künstlerkollektiv goslab: Die Idee: verschiedene Kunstformen zu verbinden.

Gios aktuelles Projekt: er fotografiert die Parasitenhäuser von Tiflis. Die Bewohner haben an die Fassaden einfach noch ein paar Zimmer drangehängt. Gio möchte mit seinen Fotos eine Diskussion über Städtebau anregen. Mit dem Namen „goslab“ stellen die Künstler im Prinzip das ehemalige System bloß. „Gos“ kommt aus dem Russischen und war früher die Bezeichnung für alles Staatliche. Ein „staatliches Laboratorium“ hätte es natürlich niemals geben dürfen.

Zu goslab gehört auch Nino. Sie ist Modedesignerin. Kein einfacher Job in Georgien, wo die meisten Menschen kaum Geld verdienen und ihre Kleider auf dem basroba, dem Markt kaufen: Viel Billig-Ramsch aus der Türkei. Nino ist 35 und lebt noch zu Hause. Mit Mama, Oma, Onkel und Tante. In Georgien ist das ziemlich normal. Zu Hause entwirft Nino auch ihre Mode. Die Kleider sind wie Kunstwerke. Nino näht Hunderte von Falten in den Stoff, bestickt ihn mit Linien und Mustern. Jedes Stück ein aufwändiges Unikat und daher nicht leicht zu verkaufen. Einen eigenen Laden kann sich Nino nicht leisten, hin und wieder fertigt sie Kleider auf Bestellung. Doch Geld verdient sie damit kaum.

Auch wenn in Georgien die Situation für junge Künstler nicht einfach ist – die Leute von goslab jammern nicht. Sie tun einfach etwas und inspirieren sich gegenseitig. Für die Fashion-Shows von Nino mixt Nika die Musik, Gio macht die Video-Installationen. Aus der Kreativität der Einzelnen entsteht ein neues Produkt. Goslab spinnt seine Fäden nicht nur in Georgien. Die Künstler sind schon auf vielen Festivals im Ausland aufgetreten. Nika spielt regelmäßig in deutschen Clubs. Von Tiflis aus arbeitet er mit Künstlern und Produzenten aus Berlin oder Köln zusammen. In seinem eigenen Land interessieren sich jedoch so wenige für elektronische Musik, dass man von einer Szene eigentlich nicht sprechen kann. Nicht einmal seine CDs werden hier verkauft, weil sie für die Georgier zu teuer wären. Wenn er in Europa leben würde, könnte Nika jedes Wochenende auflegen und viel mehr Geld verdienen. Aber er will in Georgien bleiben, mit seinem Sohn und seiner Frau. Und hier sind seine Freunde. Weil es in Tiflis keine guten Clubs gibt, feiern sie zu Hause. Mit Bier und Wein aus Georgien.

Alle machen irgendwas mit Kunst und alle sind Teil des großen Kollektivs von goslab. Vorreiter in Sachen Ästhetik, (die durch ihren kreativen Output das künstlerische Interesse in ihrer Heimat wecken wollen).

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Links
>> Offizielle Website - http://www.goslab.de/
>> Eine Geschichte aus Georgien - http://www.intro.de/
>> Interview von Nikakoi - http://www.techno.de/

Kontakte
Nino Chubinishvili
mail: goswear@goslab.ge
Adresse: tbilisi. georgia. abakelia . st. 3 a . Chubinishvili Nina.

Nika Machaidze
mail: nikakoi@goslab.ge oder nikakoi@gmx.de

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TRACKS
Eine Reportage von Julia Nether
Donnerstag, den 18. November 2004 um 23.30 Uhr
Wiederhol. am Samstag, den 20. November um 17.45 Uhr
Redaktion: BR

ANNOUNCEMENT: TBA & Nikakoi - live performance on electronauts 2009 (muzorama.blogspot.com)

A very rare joint live performance of TBA and Nikakoi was filmed during the Electronauts 2009 – Award ceremony for innovative music, held 16th of April 2010 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

here: muzorama.blogspot.com

MUSIC: Georgia to host rival contest after Eurovision ban on Putin song (timesonline.co.uk)

Normally the Eurovision Contest is a mass spectacle for the european community and their different countries. Only interesting is who is the singer king for one summer in this area. But Georgia would like to start a new area in this champion games. It is possible to start a political music contest in this entertainment?

more here >>>

MUSIC: Katie Melua - Guinness World Record For Deepest Underwater Concert (ireport.com)

Ketevan Melua was born in Kutaisi, Georgia, which then was part of the Soviet Union, in 1984. She spent her first years with her grandparents in the capital Tbilisi before moving, with her parents and brother, to the town of Batumi, Ajaria where her father worked as a heart specialist. Katie Melua is a unique and remarkable vocalist/guitarist known and loved for singing open-hearted ballads.

On 2 October 2006, Katie Melua has set a new World Record and entered the Guinness Book of Records by performing the world's deepest underwater concert. Katie and her band played for workers at the Statoil Troll A Gas Rig in the North Sea, an amazing 303 metres below sea level.
The concert required extensive medical testing and underwater survival training including escaping through the window of a submerged helicopter, and was held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of gas production by Troll-Gas. It was filmed by Norwegian TV channel NRK.

Craig Glenday, editor-in-chief of Guinness World Records, was also there and confirmed the world record.

MUSIC: MaerzMusik on the radio (soundexpanse.com)

MaerzMusik on the radio

There are two chances to hear what's going on at MaerzMusik this year without being in Berlin. The first is yesterday, from 8:03-10:30pm Berlin time. The second broadcast will be on Sunday. (More on that later.) I'm going to listen to the live stream from work today at 3:03 my time (in Boston) and hope the phone doesn't ring very often. It looks like it will be available on demand after that as well.

This year's festival is titled:

REDUCTION · STRUCTURE · DECONSTRUCTION

YOUNG RUSSIA MEETS THE AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE
MUSIC FROM ARMENIA AND CENTRAL ASIA

There is an excellent description (and English translation) of this year's programming by artistic director Matthias Osterwald.

full article >>>

more: MaerzMusic

ELECTRO-MUSIC: Afternoon Version - Alternativ / Electronica / Downtempo from Tbilisi (myspace.com)

"Remembering the old, cool and still beating ... AV" - Tbilisi, Georgien

with: Goga Kavtaradze - Drums, Nick Tsereteli - Keyboards, back vocals, programming, Zuricha Dzagnidze - Guitars, Dato Toidze - Guitars, George (Sikha) Sikharulidze - Bass, vocals, programming.

link: www.myspace.com/afternoonversion

INTERVIEW: Tinatin, the “Best Kept Secret for Much Too Long”…

“It is definitely one of my goals to finally return to my roots when the time is right and introduce myself to my audience back home as “one of their own.”

Probably most Georgians would feel proud to hear that over the Atlantic a 24-year-old girl, Tinatin Japaridze, is on her way to reaching the heights of two careers: as a writer and a musician. Heralded by Billboard Magazine as one of the "fresh faces to keep an eye out for in 2008," she was a finalist in the worldwide John Lennon Song Contest and her song “Wild” was hailed as a 2007 year-end Billboard Top 10 Critics’ Pick.

Years ago in London Tinatin, together with Christopher Neil who is also her Executive Producer and Vocal Producer and Oskar Pall Sveinsson wrote a song called “Is It True?” which has become Iceland’s Eurovision Song Contest Entry for 2009. The song won the national finals by a staggering 44% and will be competing with at the international finals to be held in Russia in May.

Tinatin's music career began in 1998 when she auditioned with Professor Luigi Alva at La Scala and was offered a place at the Academy. At 14, she began classical vocal lessons with renowned Maestro Gocha Bezhuashvili, who has worked with La Scala, The Metropolitan Opera and Covent Garden. In the summer of 1998, Tinatin was invited to open the 1st Festival of Russian Films in Cannes and was then asked by the Mayor of Nice to close the annual Carnival of Flowers with her version of Jacques Brel's "Quand On Na Que L'Amour."

Three years later, she went to London to study journalism—and while there, launched her first promotional tour, organized by Event One, Jeff Chegwin and Yegor Shishkovsky, the latter of whom is a widely popular Russian-born journalist and radio personality. Live performances and TV/radio interviews with Tinatin were featured on BBC, Channel 5 and ITV's "London Tonight," where Capital FM's Neil "Doctor" Fox referred to her as having a "really fantastic and beautiful voice. She's unbelievable. It's a voice that you would want people to put money behind."

Born in Georgia and raised in Moscow, Tinatin has written in Russian for the leading Russian Newspaper in America, in English for the United Nations (where she is the United Nations Radio Correspondent) and in Georgia she has both written and been written about - including a story about her in Cosmopolitan – for which Cambridge Jones, the UK’s top photographer, took portraits.

Tinatin is currently working on two literary projects, fiction and non-fiction. Her songs are top hits on UK Radio stations and in clubs. Catapulting into mainstream success with a current dance/club hit in the UK, “Thinking of Someone Else,” Tinatin is adding final touches to her debut album with a number of the industry's top producers and scribes.

As her collaborator Sahin has described, Tinatin’s voice is very soft and just floats over the music. The basis for this, he believes, could be the Georgian culture she is coming from

"One of the highlights of my early days came when I was asked by my all-time heroes, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, to perform 'A Piece of Sky' from 'Yentl' at the Creative Arts Awards honouring Marilyn, who alongside her husband wrote some of the most touching and beautiful lyrics that I was brought up listening to," says Tinatin. That performance marked her American debut, where she was presented to Mayor Rudi Giuliani and consummate Broadway composer Cy Coleman by the legendary conductor, arranger and composer Marvin Hamlisch, and accompanied by jazz piano great Mike Renzi.

To find out more about Tinatin we took our chance to ask her several questions as well:

Q: What are your expectations concerning Johanna Gudrun Jonsdottir, as you are the co-writer of her Eurovision song with Oskar Pall Sveinsson and Christopher Neil?
A: My long-time collaborators Oskar Paul Sveinsson, Christopher Neil and I co-wrote Is It True? several years ago in London as one of the few songs recorded for my pending album at the time. As often happens in creative situations, we somehow ended up putting the song aside after its completion. Many songs and years later, I got a call from Oskar asking if I had any objections to his idea of submitting it for this year's preselection process in Reykjavik.

In an announcement made by RÚV Television, just over 69,000 votes were cast by the public when they chose our song as the nation's representative out of the 217 entries. It was so unexpected – Chris Neil was away and Oskar was in hospital, so you can only imagine our excitement when the news finally arrived!

As for my expectations of the ESC finals in Moscow, it's very hard to predict the outcome at this point – had you asked me last year if I was planning to participate in Eurovision 2009, I would have rolled my eyes and said, “I doubt it”, for no reason other than the simple fact that planning anything ahead of time is nearly always a complete waste of energy!

Thanks to Oskar, we discovered the wonderfully gifted and beautiful Johanna, and she did a great job! As a singer, I was inevitably "picky" but couldn't find a single flaw in Johanna's performance, which in itself was extremely gratifying. I think she's got a lot to offer at this year's competition, so we're very proud and definitely very much looking forward to it!

Q: Currently you are writing an autobiography, will it be available for Georgian readers?
A: This autobiography is definitely something I have long wanted to write, but now more than ever before, it seems like the right moment for me to share my story, which will be published in the UK later this year.

Hopefully, it will resonate with my compatriots, as in many ways this book also represents my journey from Tbilisi, my hometown, to Moscow where I moved at the age of nine, and my final destination – the United States of America, where I’ve been living for the past four and a half years.

Q: When did you obtain Russian citizenship and what was the reason for this?
A: We moved to Moscow in the early 90’s during the upheaval in Georgia when my dad, the architect and painter Givi Japaridze, was offered the opportunity to pursue his professional career in Russia.

It was the beginning of a difficult transition, but it was also a challenge that I chose to embrace, along with many other Georgian émigrés in Moscow at the time. I pursued my studies at the International School of Tomorrow and at the Moscow State University, until I finally moved abroad: first stop – London for several years, and only later – New York.

Q: You're at #2 on the Dance Radio Top 25 along with Madonna, Donna Summer and Jennifer Hudson with the song "Thinking of Someone Else," how do you intend to continue catching the attention of your fans?
A: To be honest, that’s a very tricky question! I've often been told that a lot of twists and turns that I took in my early career have never really followed a set pattern of a debutante – it all happened ''upside down''.

For example, while most artists become involved in political issues much later, a couple of years ago, the former President of the UN Correspondents' Association, Ian Williams, suggested that I compose a piece of music based on the United Nations Charter as a one-of-a-kind ''UN song''. Less than a year later, I was standing onstage at the UN Headquarters singing "We the Peoples" at the request of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, honoring Sir Richard Branson. It suddenly dawned on me that yes, sometimes we do have the craziest ideas, and yes, everyone will tell you not to do it, but with a little bit of luck, effort and belief, everything is within our reach - even the most insane and ridiculous fantasies!

I suppose trying to calculate the next move, no matter how predictable, is one of the most difficult tasks for me. And while my heart inevitably lies in contemporary music, I consider classical training and particularly bel canto to be an absolute must for any vocalist in any given genre; and needless to say, Maestro Gocha Bezhuashvili has certainly become one of my most trusted mentors.

Q: Do you plan any tours in the future and would Georgia be one of the countries on the list?
A: It is definitely one of my goals to finally return to my roots when the time is right and introduce myself to my audience back home as “one of their own.” The fact that this has not yet happened was certainly not my decision.

These days, I often get fan mail from young Georgian people asking me why I still haven’t made any effort to appear publicly in Georgia and have somehow managed to remain the country’s “best-kept secret for much too long”… I admit that singing foreign songs and working on an English-language project did not necessarily work in my favour in Tbilisi. Some accused me of unpatriotic tendencies, while others simply didn’t care much for American songs sung by a Georgian girl who was being produced by some of the leading European and American scribes and producers. Why? Because I wasn’t singing in Georgian!

I have to be honest and say that, to a certain extent, I was slightly disappointed by the unexpected reaction of my fellow Georgians. There is absolutely nothing wrong with our compatriots achieving success and recognition in other parts of the world – if anything, doesn't their popularity abroad promote our own country and its citizens beyond the ramifications of geography and politics?


Eka Bilanishvili
2009.03.03 18:55

www.myspace.com/tinatinmusic

MUSIC: Giorgi Janiashvili (myspace.com)

Experimentelle Musik / Elektroakustik / Klassik

Giorgi Janiashvili about himself: I am music composition student at Tbilisi State Conservatoire. I am interested in acoustic and electronic music composition, video art and film, multimedia performance, music theatre, installation art and contemporary dance. I have loved jazz, avant-garde music and art in general since my childhood. I often passed my time as a child in copying geometrical abstractions of avant-garde artists (Mondrian, Malevich) in computer. My mother is a professor of art and she often spoke to me about Kandinsky, Picasso, Miro, Klee, Pollock and other great artists. My father is an architect, my brother is a computer graphic designer. When I was born the Georgian avant-garde artist IRAKLI PARJIANI created a painting for me on which he made an inscription: "TO GIORGI, WHO HAS NEWLY DESCENDED FROM STAR!" Under these circumstances I have developed a perception of visual aesthetics. Music has always been the greatest thing for me. I passed hours in listening to Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Joe Zawinul, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, etc. I have been fond of electronic sounds since my childhood. I began learning to play the piano because I wanted to play on a synthesizer. Under the influence of Miles Davis I took trumpet lessons along with piano lessons. John Cage and his book "Silence," especially Karlheinz Stockhausen, also Stravinsky, especially his ballet Sacre Du Printemps, as well as Iannis Xenakis, John Zorn, Frank Zappa...have deeply influenced me and predetermined my decision to become a composer. Cinematography and theatre had also a great impact on me, particularly such directors as Peter Greenway, Andrei Tarkovsky, David Lynch, Lars Von Trier, Robert Sturua. Of great influence were Christianity and Zen Buddhism. The political and social situation in my country affected me deeply as well.

listen here: www.myspace.com/giojaniashvili