ISA Records
Having flown in from Tbilisi, Anushka Chkheidze found herself completely alone inside the empty and as yet unoccupied University of Basel’s Biozentrum: just her, a piano, and the surrounding spaces. Over a two-week period the young Georgian musician and composer was able to explore the building, designed by Ilg Santer architects, with the piano, microphones, a mixing deck, a computer, and her voice. She also assembled a small choir from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis music academy in Basel. Anushka encountered eight very different places in the building, and the spatial acoustics and nonvisible interior spaces all play their part.
Hubertus Adam
CES Records
“Lost Luggage” is a result of Anushka moving from home to another place, feeling nostalgic about people and places she loves. This EP is compiled of 4 track, all written is Utrecht.
CES Records
Move 20-21 "LP" (2021)
As sophomore sets go, Move 20-21 is quietly impressive, with the Georgian artist smartly running through tracks that variously doff a cap to vintage, late ’90s Aphex Twin (the bleeping ‘Try to Be Born’), ambient techno (‘Lazy, We Are’, ‘Torino’) and the breakbeat-driven bliss of ‘Beside Halfie’), drowsy ambient pop (check her manipulated vocals on ‘Baked Face’), sweaty electro-jazz (‘Move Move’), bustling electro (’20-21′), dystopian dancefloor soundscapes (‘OCD’) and Rephlex style ‘braindance’ (‘Love=Survive’).
Juno
CES Records
Halfie "LP" (2020)
“(Her album) “Halfie” is reminiscent of early Warp releases by Seefeel or even Aphex Twin, experimental electronic music of high accessibility, which is due to the engaging combination of striking beat patterns, spherical pads and lots of crystal-pop melodies. For Chkheidze, by the way, “Halfie” is “more than an album,” as she puts it in the liner notes, namely “a precious and fragile persona about to lose its identity.” An avant-garde persona that has a lot in common with its creator in terms of the degree of reflection.”
Thomas Venker
Sleepers Poets Scientists V/A
CES Records
CES Records