NATALIE BERIDZE
Live – monika enterprise, room40 / GE-Tbilisi
TECHNICAL RIDER NATALIE BERIDZE
Biography
Natalie “Tusia” Beridze (b. 28 Mar 1979, Tbilisi), formerly known as TBA, is a Georgian experimental electronic music composer, songwriter, and producer. Beridze is a member of Gudrun Gut‘s open artist collective Monika Werkstatt and Georgian creative laboratory Goslab. She teaches songwriting and music production at the Creative Education Studio-CES. Beridze began her artistic career in the early 2000s, initially making short films and music videos. Her video for Nikakoi’s song Game(2001) won the 2nd prize at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen festival. In 2002, Tusia’s early solo tracks appeared on New Georgian Aestethics – A Collection Of Georgian Electronic Music compilation, and in the same year she sang in a duo with Nikakoi on his debut album Sestrichka and 12″ City Lights EP released by German label WMFREC.
From 2002 to 2008, Beridze worked and lived in Cologne, Germany, where she relocated after landing a record deal with Thomas Brinkmann’s label Max Ernst. Tusia adopted a new alias TBA meaning “Lake” (ტბა) in Georgian and also a common abbreviature “to-be-announced” in English. Her debut album as TBA, Georgia Is Like Spiritual Tokyo LP (accompanied by a “self-titled” max.E.-CD5 version), came out in 2003. In 2005, Tusia Beridze was one of four musicians featured on the 4 Women No Cry Vol. 1 2×12″/CD compilation in a new series from German label Monika Enterprise. Independent press hailed her as the first female Georgian electronic musician to reach widespread recognition in Europe. She released four more full-length albums at Max Ernst, including Stupid Rotation under her minimal techno alias TBA_Empty, and an ambitious 2007 trilogy consisting of a conceptual double album inspired by Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland,” Size And Tears, and The Other CD.
When Natalie Beridze returned to Tbilisi, she released her next CD album Pending, credited to TBA_Natalie Beridze, on Laboratory Instinct. The next year, Beridze released What About Things Like Bullets EP on Monika Enterprise, followed in 2011 by her first full-length album for the label, Forget’fulness. In addition to her solo projects, Beridze has collaborated with many renowned artists, including Thomas Brinkmann, Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF), Gudrun Gut, Greie Gut Fraktion, Jörg Follert(Wechsel Garland), Marcus Schmickler, Nika Machaidze (Nikakoi), Gacha Bakradze, Post Industrial Boys, T.Raumschmiere, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. She also participated in an online “mail art” project, Chain Music, initiated by Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian. Natalie Beridze wrote soundtracks for several movies, such as Salome Machaidze’s “Trigger Tiger” (2006) and “Dima” (2009), or Zaza Rusadze’s “A Fold of my Blanket” (2011). Some of her piano compositions were performed by Vera Kappeler.
To date, Natalie Beridze released 14 full-length albums, which recently have been published by renowned Australian ambient label Room40, like Of Which One Knows, In Front of You, If We could Hear, and on CES Records the album Spines.
