Agora

by Nino Davadze - DAVA

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1.	You Arrived 04:30	buy track
2.	Let Her Alone 03:55	buy track
3.	Agora 05:02	buy track
4.	Geometry 04:17	buy track
5.	Dante 05:24	buy track
6.	City Of Gods 07:32	buy track
7.	Once 03:27	buy track
8.	Love Song 05:26	buy track

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Debut album - Agora by Nino Davadze [Dava] is an immersive listening experience that explores the dynamics of the post-Soviet city and its culture. The album's title, AGORA, refers to the place where a city ties up all of its complexity, preserves its collective memory, and imprints a social routine. Through processed field recordings and her own vocals, DAVA creates a sonic landscape that exposes the city's diverse audio textures. Georgian archaic temper, choral harmonics, dark industrial beats, and spoken word all come together to form an intricate tapestry of sound.

 The album brings up the feminine narrative in post-Soviet cultures, with DAVA creating bridges between the public and intimate, traditional and utopian, social and vulnerable. The album echoes a sense of anger and desperation for a new reality, one that reflects the experiences of those who have been underestimated in post-soviet society. The album's powerful sound captures the essence of this unwrapped emotion, without conforming to societal or audio norms.

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released April 27, 2023

Cover feature: a scheme of seasonal temporary archaic settlement in Georgia/Abkhazia, with a circular crossroads as a major point where a city creates its heartbeat, dynamics, and forms connections. The roundabout on the cover incorporates a shape of microbiological cell structures, linking the internal and external circular frames to each other, reflecting the architecture of the human microcosm fully reflected in an urban environment that creates the whole beauty of social and individual behavior.

Design: Nino Gavasheli
Label: UNHEARD REC

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Nino Davadze Tbilisi, Georgia

Experimental musician and multimedia artist working with field recordings, sound art and abstract sound sources. Her sonic trajectory repurposes the form of IDM, electronic avant-garde via storytelling and political lyricism to create a musical language used as a tool that expresses the resistance of the contemporary Georgian society in the post-soviet context. ... more

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