We invite you to enter the strange and enchanting world of Nino Gvilia, where nothing is quite what it seems. NICOLE is the first track of the eponymous two EP's project (presented on one disc in March 2024) that will draw you deep into her dreamlike sound-world of hushed late night atmospherics and surreal songwriting.

Born in Poti, near Lake Paliastomi in Georgia, Nino Gvilia is a singer-songwriter whose lyrics offer up meditations on what it is to be human in the 21st Century, and aim to carry us beyond into ecology and the politics of the non-human world.

Her songs are influenced by folk and minimalism and make use of magnetic tapes, field recordings, vocal samples of contemporary thinkers and philosophers, and an array of strange instruments and vintage textures, drawing for us an intense dreamlike atmosphere.

But Nino Gvilia does not exist.

She is a fictional character composing invented to reflect on the question of whether it is still possible to convey sentimental and political content through the song form in these times of crisis.

Songs & lyrics, vocals, harmonium by Nino Gvilia. Hammond, arrangement by Zevi Bordovach. Piano by Pietro Caramelli.

Recorded by Paul Beauchamp at O.F.F. Studio, Turin, March 2023.

Mixed by Paul Beauchamp and Pietro Caramelli. Mastered by Julian Tardo at Church Road Studio, Hove.

Video by Luca Pescaglini and Miha Sagadin. Directed and edited by Luca Pescaglini. Shot at Aquarissima 2000, Turin (IT).

Dedicated to Nicole Bruining.

From https://ninogvilia.bandcamp.com/album/nicole-overwhelmed-by-the-unexplained