|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2CD
|
|
MAXE 014CD
|
TBA is Tbilisi, Georgia-based Goslab member Natalie Beridze, and this is her third full-length release on the Max Ernst label. Size and Tears is an ambitious double CD that runs for over 2 hours, describing an entire arc of a whole universe. This is a journey through the looking glass -- a private trip where raves meet molecular subordination and conditional solutions. It rather stands on the side of Proust, who once said, "...the earth, draped in its verdant cloak, makes as little impression upon me as a ghost. It is living and ceasing to live which are imaginary solutions." Sometimes one gets sick of the cultivated level of mediocracy of the modern product, from the peace it brings, from its boring cosmopolitan suitability, and fulfilling of expectations. Opposed to it, Size and Tears is maybe too wrong and too dreamy, but there is no other way to make it comprehensive. It's like landing in Rio in extremely stormy conditions, without knowing if you will land safely or not. This project is just another moment of intimacy from which one blushes, an easy rider of the vulgarly divine utopia. Produced in collaboration with Thomas Brinkmann.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
CD
|
|
MAXE 015CD
|
Natalie Beridze, also known as Tusia Beridze or TBA, is a female music producer from Tbilisi, Georgia. She is also known as a member of Goslab -- a Georgian art laboratory, where she creates video works. The marriage of visual art and music eventually proved to be a strong influence on her releases on Maxernst, starting with her family and ending with friends and people she has worked with, such as Nika Machaidze aka Nikakoi, Erast and Gogi Dzodzuashvili, who have used Tusia's vocals and lyrics in most of their songs. Beridze embraces an eclectic mix of influences, including The Smiths, Lou Reed, Weather Report, David Bowie, Cocteau Twins, Björk, 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. The Other is released at the same time as Size and Tears as a mature counterpoint away from the former's childhood references. "Break," which was originally written for Ryuichi Sakamoto's Chain Music, made Mr. Sakamoto cry. "Hero" is quite brutal and dark, but then it all turns around again with the tenderness of "Father." Guest vocals also appear on the track "Beam Plaster" by Marcus Schmickler. The Other shows Tusia at her strongest and most committed. These tracks are love letters, not just summer kisses.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
CD
|
|
MAXE 008CD
|
"TBA aka Tusia Beridze 25 year old female music producer from Tbilisi / Georgia (also known as a member of Goslab, a Georgian art laboratory, where she contributed with her video works) returns with her second album on max.Ernst. Not until two years before she started producing music on her own has she had a straight connection to it, because 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 challenging surrounding around her, starting from her family, ending with friends and people she worked with, such as Nika Machaidze aka Nikakoi, (wmf 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 record, which is 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."
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
CD
|
|
MAXE 005CD
|
"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 Nikakoi (WFM Rec.) Erast (Laboratory instinct) and Gogi Dzodzuashvili, 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."
|
|
|
|