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Giorgi Koberidze 

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Giorgi Koberidze is an electronic and classical music composer from Georgia. He currently serves as a professor of music at Tbilisi State Conservatoire, and Ilia State University. Giorgi's work is rooted in the Georgian musical tradition, cross-pollinating indigenous instrumentation with electronic and western classical timbres. He recently won first prize in the Tbilisi Conservatoire Composers Awards, and received Georgia's most prestigious cultural gong, the Tsinandali Award.

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"𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔, 𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔, 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔" was premiered in Georgia at the Kutaisi Film Festival, and later showcased at the Tbilisi Film Festival. Working from graphic scores, Giorgi's ensemble includes strings, woodwind and traditional instruments from the Caucasus (doli, chuniri). Fleeting voices, field recordings and skittering percussion converge to paint a storied map of Tbilisi, and its surrounding terrain of forested polyphony and microtonal peaks and crags.

 

The piece is designed to be absorbed in the surround sound of darkened movie theatres, like a dizzying series of sonic inkblot images. In this way, each listen of "𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔, 𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔, 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔" is projectively rich, conjuring a multiverse of narratives in the half-light of sensory acuity. At home, Giorgi invites listeners to set aside time to experience the record in a dark, comfortable space absent of external stimuli.

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“𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔 (𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒖𝒆)” is the follow up EP to Georgian composer Giorgi Koberidze's wonderful “𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔, 𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔, 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔”, an album released on London's Kit Records in 2025.

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Captured during the same recording sessions, and sparking the same cathartic series of graphic scores painted by UK artist Josie Storer, these tracks again find Koberidze melding traditional instruments from the Caucasus with western classical arrangements and avant-garde electronics.

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Where the original was stately, ominous, and weightless, this material packs a chaotic punch, with ratcheting percussion and pizzicato bringing this cartographic journey to a euphoric close.

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Recommended for fans of Pierre Bastien, Roméo Poirier, Jan Jelinek.​

 

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This album was made with the support of the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. The recordings were funded by Nicolas Jaar. Thank you. We are beyond proud to present this incredible project.