Natalia Beridze

Natalie Beridze

Natalie "Tusia" Beridze (also Natalie, born in ნატალია ბერიძე; German transcription Natalia Beridse ; born March 28, 1979 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian musician, best known under her pseudonym TBA . She also publishes under other names such as TB , Tusha , Tusia , Tutta , TBA Empty or Nate Fisher . She is a member of the artist collective Goslab .

Musical career

Beridze studied politics and media studies. In 2002 she could be heard as a singer in a duet with Nika Machaidze on his maxi single Nikakoi - City Lights ( WMF Records ).

Her first album TBA was released in 2003 on Thomas Brinkmann's label Max Ernst . Tba (ტბა) is the Georgian word for lake , but TBA also stands as the English abbreviation for to be announced , a term often used in the music sector for a preliminary announcement: album title, release date, concert location, line-up (or similar) is still to be announced . Only the letters TBA were on Beridze's first album .

In 2005 she was one of four musicians on the compilation Four Women No Cry (based on the Bob Marley piece No Woman No Cry , but without musical reference) on Monika Enterprise , the label of the musician Gudrun Gut . In 2006 she produced the soundtrack for Salome Machaidze's film Trigger Tiger . The following year her last productions appeared on Max Ernst with the albums The Other and Size and Tears (a double album) . In 2009 she released an album on Laboratory Instinct . A year later, an EP was released on Monika Enterprise , followed in 2011 by a remix production for Greie Gut Fraktion and their album Forget'fulness .

As a guest musician or remixer, Beridze has been involved in recordings by Nikakoi , Post Industrial Boys , T. Raumschmiere , Jörg Follert (Wechsel Garland) and Thomas Brinkmann, among others . On the album Forget'fulness there is a cooperation with Ryuichi Sakamoto .

Natalie Beridze is represented by Gabriele Loschelder's Media Loca agency.

style

Natalie Beridze produces electronic music. It is assigned to Leftfield , IDM and Electronica . Her first album in 2003 included 21 more abstract miniatures.

Already on her next album Georgia Is Like Spiritual Tokyo she sang herself. And from release to release, her music became increasingly lyrical. It moves harmoniously in a minor area, often with broken, diminished chord progressions. She found a songwriting that is based on open structures and lies in the border area between electronica, singer-songwriter , Brussels New Wave of the 1980s and soundtrack-like moods and atmospheres.

The fact that she chose the laptop as a tool at all seems to have little to do with the desire to produce electronic music in the sense of club or techno , but rather with the possibility of being able to work independently. The explicitly electronic musicians then appear on the sidelines on a reference list: Beridze is enthusiastic about an eclectic mix of influences: 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 that resounded from the crude loudspeakers from Soviet production into the tiny Goslab studio

For example, she produced the soundtracks for Salome Machaidze's films Trigger Tiger (2006) and Dima (2009) and for Zaza Rusadze's A Fold of my Blanket (2011). With the double album Size And Tears (2007) she deals with Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland .

Discography

Albums

• 2003: TBA (Max Ernst)
• 2003: Georgia Is Like Spiritual Tokyo (Max Ernst)
• 2005: Annulé (Max Ernst)
• 2006: Stupid Rotation (Max Ernst)
• 2007: The Other (Max Ernst)
• 2007: Size And Tears (Max Ernst)
• 2009: Pending (Laboratory Instinct)
• 2011: Forget'fulness (Monika Enterprise)
• 2016: Guliagava (Monika Enterprise)

Singles & EPs

• 2005: Annulé Remixes (Max Ernst)
• 2006: Stupid Rotation 1 (Max Ernst)
• 2006: Stupid Rotation 2 (Max Ernst)
• 2007: Donoteatonlsd (Max Ernst, as Nate Fisher )
• 2010: What About Things Like Bullets (Monika Enterprise)

Others

Natalie Beridze's video for Nikakoi's Song Game, however, received a MuVi Award at the 2002 Oberhausen International Short Film Festival.

Scottish poet Don Paterson wrote a poem entitled Love Poem For Natalie 'Tusja' Beridze , which was awarded the Forward Poetry Prize in 2008 for best poem .

Web links

Commons : Natalia Beridze  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Beridze on Tumblr
• Collection of reviews on media loca
• TBA at Discogs (English)
• Audio samples on Soundcloud.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Illustration of the cover on Discogs
2. ↑ The album on Discogs
3. ↑ Some collaborations by Tusia Beridze on Discogs
4. ↑ Beridze on Media-Loca.com
5. ↑ thaddi in De: Bug : [... You immediately have the feeling of being able to listen directly in the computer case and how everything is overheating there [...] ]
6. ↑ De-Bug about Forget'fulness : (...) small malicious dark crystals between Aphex Twin , Betke and the intelligent side of the Belgian international New Wave (including Minimal Compact , Tuxedomoon ) of the eighties from (...)
7. ↑ 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. Forced exposure through The Other
8. ↑ MuVi Oberhausen - winners are certain : Intro.de ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.