about the record

Giorgi Koberidze is an electronic and classical music composer from Georgia. His work is rooted in the Georgian musical tradition, cross-pollinating indigenous instrumentation with electronic and Western classical timbres.

Forests, Tales, Cities, Forests premiered at the Kutaisi Film Festival before being showcased at the Tbilisi Film Festival. Working from graphic scores, Giorgi's ensemble includes strings, woodwind, and traditional Caucasian instruments such as the doli and chuniri. Fleeting voices, field recordings, and skittering percussion converge to paint a storied map of Tbilisi and its surrounding terrain of forested polyphony, microtonal peaks, and crags.

The piece is designed to be absorbed in the surround sound of darkened movie theaters, like a dizzying series of sonic inkblot images. In this way, each listen to 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, free of external stimuli.