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• Natela Svanidze's 1974 undiscovered Synthi - 100 recording featuring HVL, Tamo Nasidze and Mess_Montage reworks

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  I Have Come Early …
  
  Natela Svanidze (1926 - 2017) is an Honored Art Worker and one of the most distinguished Georgian composers, whose creations have not been explored and praised sufficiently to this day. Key period of the artist’s comprehensive work coincided with Soviet times, resulting in a variety of impediments—both in creative and personal realms of her life.
  
  The following issue aims to showcase Natela Svanidze’s electronic music recorded in 1974 for her Georgian Lamentations oratorio, part 5. “Epitaphium”. The groundbreaking for the time being, as it is based on electronic music, developed into four dynamic waves, with rhythmic whispering of the choirs chanting “eternity”. Several aspects make this part exceptional: this is the first electronic music piece in Georgian music, composed by a female composer, and simultaneously recorded on Synthi-100, a popular synthesizer (invented by P. Zinoviev and imported to Moscow from England in the early 1970s) at the time. This very synthesizer was used by E. Artemiev, V. Martinov and I. Bogdanov, as well as famous movie soundtracks, including Stalker by A. Tarkovsky, Sibierade by A. Konchalovsky, A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov by N. Mikhalkov and many more.
  
  Natela Svanidze is an artist with a somewhat tragic story, who never got the chance to fully realize her creative ideas into fruition due to objective impediments of her time. “I regret to say that I have come early… I was born for electronic music, but with virtually no technical capabilities to create such music in my time…”, said she once with regret.
  
  Natela’s credo:
  “I have never violated my principles, agreed to compromise or give up on my inherent aspiration to manifest my intrinsic truth through art for the sake of success, fame or money. I have never sold a counterfeit to my audience. What I have created is something that simply had to be.”
  
  This unique recording from 1974 has been treated with care and supported by 3 young and extremely talented Georgian music producers: HVL; Tamo Nasidze and Mess_Montage.
  
  Credits:
  
  Side A: Composer – Natela Svanidze
  Side A – Track 1 performed by Georgian National Choir / Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra / Conductor-Archil Ushveridze / Producer-Nikoloz Rachveli
  Side B: Inspired by Natela Svanidze by HVL / Tamo Nasidze / Mess_Montage
  All tracks mastered by Gvaji at Leno Records
  Design – Lado Kobakhidze
  Producer – Natia Sartania
  Text - Marika Nadareishvili
  Manufacturing assistance: EQX-Music
  
  Thanks:
  
  Jan Chudozilov (for discovering and bringing the recording to our attention)
  Natela Svanidze’s family (for letting us bring it to you)
  Eka Chabashvili (for being a great student and a friend to Natela and for inspiring us)
  Marika Nadareishvili (for all the information and texts)
  Mziko Lapiashvili
  Natela Gogichaishvili
  Gia Sartania
  Gigi Jikia
  Tamo Nasidze
  Tornike Margvelashvili
  Lado Kobakhidze
  George Gvarjaladze
  Nikoloz Rachveli
  Günter Stöppel
  Creative Education Studio
  Nika Machaidze
  Natalie Beridze
  
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