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Georgian Gothic Music

Gothic music is not popular in georgia. I know only one Band called Yorick.

They recorded two albums: "The Rest is Silence" and just released "Plebeian reign". You can find some info's on their Website.

I found on youtube their song: "Time to go! Time to go!". Main theme of the album is based on Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita". Other two songs are based on Lermontov's "Demon" and Tolstoi's "Anna Karenina".

In this song featuring Artist is "Pecho" ex-vocalist of Soft Eject, who sings The Master's part.

Folk&Classic Music on MySpace

Soft Eject

Soft Eject on MySpace
Is 6 member band from Tbilisi, Georgia. Founded in 1989. The first performance at Batumi, Georgia rock festival 1990. 1995 the band made their first music video Please Just Carry On in Tbilisi, and still appears on top Georgian musical TVs along with other videos of the band. 1996 SOFT EJECT established own S.E.Studio in Tbilisi. 1996-2000 - the band experimented with synthesizing rock, folk and classical music genres. Experimental music was successfully performed at the Tbilisi Guitar Festival 2000. Soft Eject performed number of solo and joint concerts throughout Georgia. June of 2001 SOFT EJECT performed in The Central Philharmonic Hall in Tbilisi. The concert had a live TV and online broadcast. In 2002 the film Soft Eject Wanderer by Nino Dalaqishvili was released. In September 2002 Soft Eject visited the UK, participated in, the In The City festival in Manchester and performed on Georgian Night concert featuring 4 bands from Georgia. Afterwards the band performed in various clubs in Greater Manchester and Liverpool. 2003 The second trip to UK featuring 19 performances in 22 days. In 2003 the band worked on their new CD Caucasus Dances. 2003 September - the band organized and performed the public project called Vote For Your Future and intensively toured around Georgia with other leading bands of the country. November 2003 organized and participated in the concert Help Your Country in Tbilisi. The gig was broadcasted all over the country. 2003 During the Rose Revolution the band actively participated in the revolutionary movement, supporting the peaceful manifestations in Tbilisi in cold and rain days of Late November. As a result Soft Eject, along with few other performers, were nicknamed The Rain Musicians. 24 November 2003 - The band organized and participated in the concert held in front of the Parliament House of Georgia celebrating the anniversary of the Rose Revolution. 2003-2004 organized and participated in the tour supporting the newly elected President. Performed during the 2004 New Years Eve concert on the central square of Tbilisi. 2004 - Extensively toured across Georgia. May 2004 organized and participated in the concert at the Batumi Stadium with over 100 000 audience, which was broadcasted countrywide. 2004 participated in Georgian Folk Festival ArtGeni. 2005 Soft Eject participated intensively in various live TV and radio shows. 2005 August - Participated in Kvariati Summer Festival Print on the Sea, organized by company Step Records. 2005 September - Tbilisi Days In Kiev concert in Baboon Cafe with Green Room 2005 September Prelude Festival, Kennedy Center, Washington USA, Gig in Iota Club, Arlington VA. Discography: Nine mountains Away 2002 Night - 2002 Wanderer 2001 Collection - 1995 Now! 1995 Something New 1994 Everybody 1993 Bottom of Form.

The Shin

The Shin on MySpace
The Shin are Zaza Miminoshvili (guitars, panduri), Zurab J. Gagnidze (electric and acoustic bass, vocals) and Mamuka Gaganidze (vocals, percussion). In their Georgian homeland, these musicians belong to the artistic elite of the country and are well known as leading composers and musicians. They have scripted pieces for productions at the Tbilisi State Theatre, numerous film, TV, and radio projects in Georgia and around the world, have taken part in several international projects, working together with great composers, directors and artists such as Gia Kancheli, Robert Sturua, Giora Feidman, Chaka Khan, Randy Brecker, Okay Temiz, Fuat Saka and many others. Musicians have lead several workshops on Georgian polyphony polyrhythmic and improvisation-theory. The Shin has participated in various festivals and won several prizes in recognition of their work. In Georgian Shin means "the road home". Even though each of us has our own personal road home and our own personal home, the music of The Shin has the amazing ability of leading everyone "home". The music leads you to somewhere you know you've been before, where the windows are fogged over from the rain and it smells of kitchen smells, where you hear voices and, even though you might not understand what they are saying, you understand everything anyway. This music leads you home, no matter how far away it is.

Levan Tskhadadze

Levan on MySpace
Levan Tskhadadze was born in 1983 in Tbilisi; He studied in the E. Mikeladze School of Instrumental Music and V.Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatory with Davit Djishkariani. In 2009 he graduated at the Amsterdam Conservatory, where he studied with Harmen de Boer.

In 2010 he continued his studies with Michel Lethiec in Nice Conservatory, at this moment he is finishing his master studies in Amsterdam Conservatory.

Levan is a founder and artistic director of the Tbilisi Wind Festival, where he collaborates with such musicians as Radovan Vlatkovic, Sergio Azzolini Maurice Bourgue and many others.

He won several prizes during his studies, such as: Georgian President's Scholarship, Francois Leleux Wind Competition in Tbilisi, Scholarship of the foundation "Solo", founded by Elisabeth Leonskaya.

Levan received master classes from Karl Leister, Ralph Manno, Joan-Enric Iluna, Paul Meyer, Anthony Pay, Menahem Pressler and Michel Lethiec. Levan played as principal clarinet in Tbilisi Opera Orchestra, Georgian Chamber Orchestra in Ingolstadt, Europa Philharmonie and Belfast Ulster Orchestra.

He performs with different Georgian Orchestras as a soloist and plays chamber music in various halls of Europe.

Nino Gvetadze

Nino on MySpace
Nino Gvetadze won the Second Prize, Press Prize and Audience Award at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition 2008. She has received a prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award 2010.
Born and raised in Tbilisi , Georgia , Nino Gvetadze studied with Veronika Tumanishvili, Nodar Gabunia and Nana Khubutia. After her graduation in the Tbilisi Conservatory, Nino moved to the Netherlands , where she studied with Paul Komen and Jan Wijn.
During her studies Nino received various awards, among those: Grant of the foundation of "solo" founded by Elisabeth Leonskaya, Grand prize and 2 special prizes at the YPF Piano Competition, Holland.
From the age of 6 Nino has performed with orchestras. She has played with such conductors as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Michel Plasson, Michel Tabachnik, Otto Tausk, Etienne Siebens, Jansug Kakhidze and John Axelrod, and performed with such orchestras as the Brussels Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Dutch Radio Philharmonic and Radio Chamber Philharmonic, the Hague Residence Orchestra, Limburg- and Brabants Symphony, Rheinische Philharmonie and Seoul Philharmonic.
She has participated in various music festivals around the world including chamber music with Jean-Yves Thibaudet at the Spoleto Festival, recital in Bayreuth, Germany on the Grand piano of Franz Liszt, Recital in the Pro Musica Preisträger am Klavier-Zyklus in Hannover, a China/Korea tour in July 2010, concert with the Georgian Sinfonietta on the Young Euro Classic Festival in Berlin, Germany, recitals and chamber music on the Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam, Holland, Concert with Brussels Philharmonic during the Brahms Festival in Brussels, Belgium and many others.
In March 2010 she performed on the famous Grand piano of Vladimir Horowitz live on Dutch Television. In 2009 Brilliant Classics released a CD of Nino Gvetadze featuring the piano repertoire of Modest Mussorgsky. Together with violinist Frederieke Saeijs, she recorded complete Sonatas of Carl Maria von Weber for Naxos. Her radio recordings are frequently broadcast by different channels of European TV and Radio.

Nino's Website

Electro Music Boom in Tbilisi

At least if it's not a Boom, it's very "cool" to listen e-Music and if you can also mix some tracks with software called "Traktor" than you are really cool guy here! Clubbing in Tbilisi is popular and cool stuff to do, though their are not lot of clubs. Their is also trend to minimal techno/house style music. I will use again MySpace to present some of georgian Dj's, that I find play interesting music, though I am not big fan of electro music:

Sikha

Sikha's MySpace
Sikha was born in Tbilisi capital of Georgia (small country near Black Sea). As a teenager he was playing in various bands on bass guitar and was studying at the medical school at the same time. In 1994 he founded underground band Afternoon Version together with his close friends, which had success and won prize in 2000 on Georgian music festival. In 2001 Sikha moved to London to pursue his dream of music production. Apart from producing solo work he is also collaborating with other musicians. MOst recently he has started experimenting with laptop DJing and it proved to be a successful experiment. Several of his tracks were included in various compilations in the UK & USA. Released Tracks: Early 2003 - Track Something (original track from Afternoon Version album To-gether) was included in Peoplesound.coms compilation CD complimenting DJ Dave Pearce's new dance column feature in Daily Star newspaper in UK 2003 Track Together car remix (original track from Afternoon Version album Together) was also included in American label Abstrakt Realitys compilation CD Chill Vol 2. www.abstraktreality.com 2004 Sunday Morning remix of original track by Levan on deep touch www.sfprecords.com 2004 All Night Long Levan & Sikha released on KYR Records Netherlands http://www.kyrrecords.nl/ 2004 Summertime revision Sikha & Zuricha (as Guria Revision)- Released on Chica discos label together with another track Dust www.chica-discos.com 2005 Beautiful day D32 Remix - on VIPNIK sounds.

Ekala

Ekala's Myspace she plays minimal techno/house.

Levan

Levan's MySpace he is also based in London.

Georgians on MySpace

I posted in Septemeber, about some georgian musicians on MySpace. I will try to track Georgians on MySpace and give roundups time from time. In this post I will try to give look at some bands who play Indie music.

OTAR my cousin and grandson of georgian composer Otar Taktakishvili. He released two albums: Fuse (2002) and Rebel Record (2006). He plays with the band called The Gglitch.
The Gglitch - International Drinking Song

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Otar's MySpace.

John Jolly is also known as SirG and Gvarj. He's been a part of numerous bands and projects (Sakhli, Genetic Code, Georgian Dance Mpire, Somebodies, SD1, Bibi da Sergi). Sergi is editor in chief of the only music magazine in Georgia (OZONI) and presents two radio shows. MusicHall (Thursdays, FM103.4, TBILISI, GEORGIA) covers newest developments in nearly every genre of electronic music. Muzorama (Sundays, FM106.9 , TBILISI, GEORGIA) is for those who’ve been interested in modern rock, indie, alternative, punk reggae and innovative pop music. Both shows provide information about newest releases, legal MP3 downloads, interesting remixes and cover versions. Listen 2 the shows @ MUZORAMA.

Young Georgian Lolitaz (see my post) recently moved to London and gave their first concert. Here is video

You can read interesting article about Indie music life in Moscow here. eXile complains about low quality music played in Indie clubs.
eXile: ,,the fact is that Moscow's indie scene has almost nothing to do with "indie." And in part, that's because "indie" itself has pretty much become little more than a stance or a fashion choice. The original "indie" grew out of the post-punk college radio scene during the 1980s. It was a mostly Middle American avant-garde movement that took anti-fashion and anti-commercialism as seriously as Middle American Protestants would. That meant wearing worn-out clothes, not combing your hair, and basically not caring. Punk was too fashion-victim. Indie was all about not giving a shit. Or at least pretending to not give a shit,,

,,From what I could tell, the context was all lost on Muscovites. Indie here is just a way of differentiating yourself, of being a bit more Western, a bit more kewl, than the tired old raver hags. As Walter Sobchak might say, Moscow indie in Moscow has no frame of reference, it's like a child wandering in the middle of a movie and...,,

and this?

Festival at Conservatoire

Griboedov str. 8

IX საერთაშორისო ფესტივალი



15 დეკემბერი ტიერი მეშლერი (ორგანი, საფრანგეთი)
პარასკევი პროგრამაშია: მარსელ დიუპრე, ტიერი მეშლერი
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17 დეკემბერი დანიილ ცვეტკოვი (ფორტეპიანო, რუსეთი)
კვირა პროგრამაშია: მოცარტი, შუმანი, ბარტოკი, ბრამსი
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19 დეკემბერი ფლორან ეო (კლარნეტი, საფრანგეთი)
სამშაბათი ჟერომ დიუკრო (ფორტეპიანო, საფრანგეთი)
პროგრამაშია: შუმანი, ვებერი, სენ-სანსი, დებიუსი, პულენკი
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21 დეკემბერი თბილისის კონსერვატორიის სტუდენტური ორკესტრი
ხუთშაბათი დირიჟორი – მიშა რახლევსკი (რუსეთი); სოლისტი - მიშელ პერი (ვალტორნა, აშშ)
პროგრამაშია: ლ. ქერუბინი, ლ. იანაჩეკი, ტ.შნაუბერი, ი.სუკი
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23 დეკემბერი BRAVA MAESTRA! - ლიანა ისაკაძის საიუბილეო საღამო
შაბათი დირიჟორი და სოლისტი – ლიანა ისაკაძე (ვიოლინო)
პროგრამაშია: შოსონი, მენდელსონი
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24 დეკემბერი თბილისის კონსერვატორიის სტუდენტთა ფოლკლორული ანსამბლი
კვირა ხელმძღვანელი ნატო ზუმბაძე
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25 დეკემბერი ბენჯამინ მარკიზ გილმორი (ვიოლინო, დიდი ბრიტანეთი)
ორშაბათი იუ ჰარიუკი (ფორტეპიანო, იაპონია)
პროგრამაშია: ბეთჰოვენი, ბარტოკი, ბრამსი, შილაკაძე
---------------------------------------------კონსერვატორიის მცირე დარბაზი

27 დეკემბერი Classic, Jazz, Rock, Fusion
ოთხშაბათი თემურ ყვითელაშვილი (გიტარა, საქართველო)
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28 დეკემბერი BRAVO MAESTRO! - ეძღვნება შალვა მოსიძის დაბადებიდან 70 წლისთავს
ხუთშაბათი მონაწილეობენ: გორის ქალთა კამერული გუნდი,
თბილისის კონსერვატორიის საგუნდო-სადირიჟორო კათედრის ბაკალავრიატისა და მაგისტრატურის გუნდები, `ბგერის თეატრი~ და შალვა მოსიძის მოწაფეები
პროგრამაშია: ქართველ და დასავლეთევროპელ კომპოზიტორთა საგუნდო ნაწარმოებები
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29 დეკემბერი საფორტეპიანო დუეტების საღამო - ეძღვნება მერი ჭავჭანიძის ხსოვნას
პარასკევი ეთერ ანჯაფარიძე (საქართველო/აშშ) მანანა დოიჯაშვილი(საქართველო)
პროგრამაშია: შუმანი, შუბერტი-პროკოფიევი, რახმანინოვი, პულენკი, მიიო
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კონცერტების დასაწყისი 19 საათზე

Tickets are available at V. Saradjishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire Grand Hall Box-Office.
The Grand Hall provides privileges such as one lari (Gel) tickets for conservatoire students (30). on presentation of valid ID.

Check the Grand Hall plan and choose the seat.

Booking of tickets is available on concert days, or before the concert (personally, or by phone), which is cancelled on the day of concert.

Working hours:
The day before concert: from 11:00 AM—17:00 PM
Concert Day: from 12:00 - 19:00 p.m.
Break: 14:00 – 15:00

Contacts:
Tel: (+995 32) 934624
Fax: (+995 32) 920176
Address: 8 Griboedov Street, 0108 Tbilisi, Georgia

Conservatoire's Web Page

Georgian Music

Young Georgian Lolitaz - Indie / Electro / Alternative


Photo: D. Meskhi
The Young Georgian Lolitaz is 4 piece band from Tbilisi, Georgia. Formed in 2000

The Young Georgian Lolitaz are:

Nika Kocharov – Guitar/Lid Vocal. Born: 1980, 22 June
Levan Shanshiashvili – Guitar/midi guitar. Born: 1984, 10 November
Radara (Davit Svanidze) – Bass. Born: 1979, 4 August
Goofy (Guram Makalatia) – Drums, Born: 1982, 3 November

Since 2000 “The young Georgian Lolitaz” took part in lots of festivals. “Mziuri”- 2000-2005 Tbilisi, Georgia (Every year rock music festival). In 2004 they were invited to Baku (Azerbaijan)“Az Rock”- festival. In 2005 in Batumi, sea side of Georgia took place a “Local Music Zone” festival, were “YGL” was invited like a main band. The same year in August they took part in festival “Print On The Sea” in Kvariati (small town near Batumi). In September they toured to Yerevan (Armenia), had couple gigs and very interesting performance at “Rock And The People” international festival. In January 2006 they participated in “Live and Digital 2” festival in Baku. Azerbaijan. The same month they participated in “Rock Sine Frontiers”- January 2006. Yerevan, Armenia.

Band plays a lot of gigs in Tbilisi.

Their 1st album called “LEMONJUICE” was released in 2004 (limited edition). Song “Star” from that album was nominated as 2004th best song on MP3 unsigned site and the band was called “the best unsigned band of 2004”. www.mp3unsigned.com/2004Awards.asp

In 2005 band signed the contract with Georgian independent label “Step Records” (www.steprecords.ge). In July of 2005 band released CD named “Radio Live”.

Now they are performing with two programs – live and half live electronic program.

Band has shoot 3 videos: “Mister”, “Sirok” and “Star”.

Listen to their Music on Myspace



Green Mama - Rock / Jazz / Hardcore




Green Mama, four piece rock band was formed in October of 2003 Tbilisi, Georgia
The band: Lasha- guitar,vocals
Zura-guitar,vocals
Alik-bass,vocals
Tornike-drums


Listen to their Music on Myspace



Sikha - Electronica / House

Sikha was born in Tbilisi capital of Georgia. As a teenager he was playing in various bands on bass guitar and was studying at the medical school at the same time. In 1994 he founded underground band Afternoon Version together with his close friends, which had success and won prize in 2000 on Georgian music festival. In 2001 Sikha moved to London to pursue his dream of music production. Apart from producing solo work he is also collaborating with other musicians. MOst recently he has started experimenting with laptop DJing and it proved to be a successful experiment. Several of his tracks were included in various compilations in the UK & USA. Released Tracks: Early 2003 - Track Something (original track from Afternoon Version album To-gether) was included in Peoplesound.coms compilation CD complimenting DJ Dave Pearce's new dance column feature in Daily Star newspaper in UK 2003 Track Together car remix (original track from Afternoon Version album Together) was also included in American label Abstrakt Realitys compilation CD Chill Vol 2. www.abstraktreality.com 2004 Sunday Morning remix of original track by Levan on deep touch www.sfprecords.com 2004 All Night Long Levan & Sikha released on KYR Records Netherlands http://www.kyrrecords.nl/ 2004 Summertime revision Sikha & Zuricha (as Guria Revision)- Released on Chica discos label together with another track Dust www.chica-discos.com 2005 Beautiful day D32 Remix - on VIPNIK sounds.

Listen to his Music on Myspace




Source: Step Records
Myspace