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Artist
Natalie Beridze
12+ albums
electronicambientexperimentalAvant-GardeROOM40
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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 widespre
