As we prepare to premiere (this Thursday!) the first song from her forthcoming double E.P. release on Brighton’s excellent Hive Mind Records, we are happy to present a short video interview with the enigmatic Georgian singer-songwriter Nino Gvilia.

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.