ven14août
Festival
Openair Stoppelfäld 2026
Wiese beim Vitaparcours, Wohlen
12:00
- Folk / Singer-Songwriter
- Pop
TBA
Tbilisi, GE
À propos
TBA (ტბა) was an alias used by experimental electronic musician Natalie/Tusia Beridze primarily between 2003 and 2011, at the early days of her career. The moniker had varying meanings: "lake" in Georgian, a common abbreviature for "to be announced" in English, and it carries the composer's initials T.B. Beridze's debut album as TBA came out in 2003, soon after she landed a record deal with Thomas Brinkmann's label [l=Max Ernst] and relocated to Cologne, Germany. Two versions, [r=299799] LP and "self-titled/untitled" [r=211405] CD, had a significantly different tracklist. In 2005, TBA presented her sophomore CD album, [r=429173]. Beridze's third full-length work for max.E, [r=700574], came out under TBA EMPTY alias, accompanied by two 12" singles, and characterized by a much more minimalistic, reductionist sound, reminiscent of Brinkmann's "ultra-minimal" techno. Beridze concluded her collaboration with the Max Ernst label by an ambitious "concept album" trilogy, * - ** - ***, spread across two albums: Size And Tears 2xCD (with one of the chapters inspired by [a435140]'s "Alice in Wonderland") and [r=1127474] CD. Both albums carried a joint credit, reading "TBA / Natalie Beridze" on the back cover and "TBA Tusia Beridze" on the shrinkwrap sticker — a design layout that Natalie adopted for the rest of TBA releases. In 2007, Beridze returned to Tbilisi, Georgia. Two years later, Natalie released her sixth album, [r=3702625], on [l=Laboratory Instinct] label. The CD artwork had the artist's name printed as TBA_Natalie Beridze. In 2010, Natalie Beridze / TBA released her digital-only [r=2452509] EP on the German label [l3385] (she first appeared on the label five years prior on the [m=53865] 2x12"/CD compilation). A full-length album [r=2793927] followed in Spring 2011, featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto on one of the tracks. Beridze is still on [l=Monika Enterprise]'s roster and released two more full-length albums and an EP for the label. However, she stopped using TBA as the moniker after 2011, with all current works credited to her full name Natalie Beridze.