Irakli Metreveli
a basement apartment in Tbilisi, Georgia
Irakli wakes up in the dim pre-dawn of Tbilisi, feeling both the weight of solitude and responsibility as he drives children safely in a lively school bus across the city's chaotic streets. Nights bring him back to his basement apartment near the sulfur baths, where he plays a well-worn cassette of his grandfather’s voice, nostalgically threading him back to his roots. His heart is a locomotive lost on a journey for the word that eludes him, a vacancy that fills his music, made with tools he invents from the materials of his daily grind.
About
Obsession
The feeling of a word lost in fog
Voice
A whisper under your skin
Genre
Basement Cassette Ambient
Instrumentation
Out-of-tune harmonica, field recordings of bus engine idle, found object percussion, old cassette tape loops
Vocal Style
Intimate, near-whispered tones with deep, warm resonance
Production Style
Recorded in the echoing sulfur-rich confines of his basement using improvised equipment
Influences
Sulfur baths of Tbilisi, grandfather's wisdom, imperfect cassette recordings
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