Giorgi Mikadze
Georgian Microjamz

Taking advantage of this collective drive of us hounds sniffing out fresh originality in new releases, as if deluding ourselves into unsmudging gorgonzola, we should fall into reality by imagining that if time is linear perhaps we are at the terminus, and we are just dismantling old fragments to slap them together haphazardly in front of the rest, with an appearance of a never-seen future. But if time were cyclical, we would no longer be plagued by anxieties, except for understanding how everything could work. Our mind thinks like an assembly line and not according to the rotation of a celestial body.

Giorgi Mikadze is a young musician (1989) from Georgia playing old music, like in this prog jazz rock album, his debut, yet he makes it new and fresh with even older artifices.

He could have invented vapor in opposition, or trap-rock, but being from that place he had to settle for folk music whose roots are lost in time, before music was defined in its precise spaces, thus emerging as something new what has existed from the beginning: microtonality and xenharmony.

I admit I do not have the adequate preparation to delve deeply into these topics, both from a technical and historical perspective, and I regret this as I cannot support my thesis with more elements.

At a simple auditory examination, the first impression conveys a certain curiosity; Mikadze's keyboard seems out of tune, pleasant and annoying at the same time, like a wound that's healing, the itch and the pleasure of scratching combined in a single sensation.

Of course, microtonal music is not new in the rock world, but aside from some exceptions, it has always remained niche; who knows if new generations of musicians will be able to move in this direction, making this approach less unpopular.

Then there are the usual rants like remarkable compositions, refined ensemble, rhythmic base with a twist, excellent technical levels without too much self-indulgence, etc., etc.

Released in the year 2020, it comes out for the intriguing RareNoiseRecords.

You can listen to the album on Bandcamp which is better.

Saravá!