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Ambavi (often stylized as Ambavi - ამბავი) is an audio-visual project created in collaboration between musicians Toresa Mossy, Anri Lomia and visual artist Nati Ideni.

Establishment and first steps
Project authors first met in 2014 when Anri and Nati released a track “you cannot teach me” by Toresa Mossy on the Label Future Records. Hence the idea of creating a collaborative project was born. According to the original plan, Ambavi represents a synthesis of Georgian folk themes, electronic sounds and rhythms characteristic for techno that is performed live partly by combining traditional instruments and vocals and by electronic sounds and beats on the other hand. Visually, Ambavi is a combination of montage, visual effects and painting elements which follows the character of a particular composition and visually follows the story told by the music, intensifies the characters conveyed in the composition and creates an additional content layer.

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Daigvianes EP
In 2015, Ambavi began working on its first EP, released by Future Record on May 5, 2017 called: “Daigvianes.” The EP includes five tracks and one bonus record: 1. Daigvianes; 2. Shavi Mertskhali; 3. Harali; 4. Dance;5. Heshela and bonus record of Shavi Mertskhali.

While working on the EP, Ambavi invited David Adam (Dato Adamashvili) to perform guitar parts, and Tornike Japiashvili for keyboards. The concept of the EP is built on the theme of expectations, which is often found in Georgian folklore and conveys the mood of anticipation when events happen independently of you and you have nothing left but to wait. When a person is no longer an actor, the course of history does not obey their efforts and they have nothing left but to wait and describe. This transforms the protagonist into a narrator. Therefore, the feeling strongly conveyed in all five tracks of the EP is what we often call the calm before a storm, when a person on the outside seems to be calm, but there is a storm of conflicting feelings in them. In the tracks, the vocals are used as instruments and the text is correspondingly less tied to specific content. Fictional language is also often used that opens a large field of interpretation for the listener and allows them to stay focused on what the music tells you. The language in EP is used as a hint, a reference, an additional sound, and not as a leading. All this together, forms the style of Ambavi, when music retains its main function and it becomes the medium through which we open the door to a world of human feelings that is common to all people regardless of cultural affiliation or the era to which they belong. The visuals created by Nati Ideni intensify the perception of the character of the music. The minimalist shapes used in the visuals and the colors chosen according to the moods allow you to look even deeper into yourself and the feelings that Ambavi tells us about. Framing emphasizes the existence of time, not as a phenomenon divided into past, present and future, but as a whole, eternal present, in which different epochs are gathered at one point and place general human sensations in one dimension.

"Daigvianes" was performed live for the first time in Berlin, in 2017 during the Georgian Poetry Evening within the framework of the Book Festival, and for the second time in 2018, in Frankfurt, within the framework of the book fair, as part of the program of contemporary Georgian music.

Gantiadi EP
The second EP of Ambavi, titled "Gantiadi", was released on December 25, 2020 by Future Record and it includes four compositions: 1. Gantiadi; 2. Intervals; 3. Qalaqshi; 4. Synapse.

Gantiadi is a fresh beginning. It is a link between past, present and future. It conveys feelings that unite people regardless of which era they live in. It is also a dialogue between musical themes conceived at different times, a monologue that is born in solitude, a melancholy that accompanies human existence and a moment of celebration followed by the anticipation of future. This is a dawn, a second, in which a day is born and which holds all the possibilities in itself.

The EP retains the instrumental-sounding vocals, the language plays the role of a conditional reference here as well, and the folk themes merge with the sharply pronounced electronic sounds and repetitively broken rhythms characteristic of techno.

The visuals created by Nati ideni for the tracks included in the EP, repeats the basic concept of the EP. The minimalist style is maintained. New textures are used, such as the canvas texture, which follows the visuals of the first composition. Again, there is a specially selected color gamut, which indicates the identical moods of the stories narrated in the music. Consequently, in each shot, along with the effects, the gradation of colors plays an important role, which is sometimes achieved by rapid alternation of several colors, and sometimes by merging, or using only one color which acquires a symbolic meaning.