Narrative Vision Of A Dead Snake (2020)

Ganymede's dreary immortality (acoustic improvisation)

Darja Kazimira&Zura - III Studio Improvisations

1. Know your limbs
2. Macedonian dance
3. No name

Visual material: Darja Kazimira
Darja Kazimira - vocals, bass rebec, horn, gong, percussion, drones
Zura Makharadze - double bass Ģiga, drums, xylophone, percussion

Darja Kazimira&Zura - Improvisation I

Darja Kazimira&Zura - Improvisation III

Darja Kazimira&Zura Makharadze - Anima I (Sopor Aeternus cover)

Darja Kazimira&Zura Makharadze - Anima II (Sopor Aeternus cover)

Darja Kazimira&Zura Makharadze - Ceremonial Funeral Of The Son (based On The Funeral Rites Of Svaneti)

Lyrics translated to English:

Vaime (Oh), my son!
Grief to those who lost you. (Vaime to those who lost you)
You gone, you gone and you left us. 
If it would be possible, I would lay instead of you. (If a replacement was possible, I would lay instead of you.) 
Hold on, my son, hold on! 
What can you do, burned, you have to hold on!

*In the original, the performance of this funeral song implies a roll call between two mourners. This song was recorded and transcribed into musical text in the first half of the twentieth century.

Original text:

ვაიმე, შვილო, 
შენს დამკარგავსა! 

წახველ და წახველ, შვილო, და დაგვტოვე,
ნეტა ბადალი იყოს, მე შენ მაგიერათ ჩავწოლილიყავი. 

უძლებ შვილო, უძლებ! 
რას იზავ, დამწვარო, უნდა გაუძლო!

Darja Kazimira&Zura Makharadze - Ceremonial Funeral Of The Son

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The Rustle Of Your Peplos (Soundtrack for "Alicia")

Ghost (soundtrack for "Alicia")

Aldebaran (2015)

Darja Kazimira - Immolation (2018/2019)

Vocal Improvisation With Ottoman Drum. Live. Riga, NOASS.6.08.2020

Improvisation On Double Zhalnik. Live. Riga, NOASS. 6.08.2020

"Darja Kazimira" is a project of the Latvian/Georgian experimental improviser, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and artist Darja Kazimira Zimina. The ideological core of the project is based on the idea of ​​a regular search for a dynamic object-center of the ritual, through the construction and study of the principles of sacred space erection. The search is carried out through self-initiated rites of burial, funeral, sacred violence, fertility (cults of the ground), as the embodiment of the idea of ​​transformation and its irreversibility. For this, the author also uses bodily practices, many of which are of an authentic masochistic nature. The genealogy of the tragic and ancient tragedy also has a great influence here. The main form of the musician's expression is long improvisational cycles of a pseudo-storytelling nature, for which the author uses they own asemiotical, idiosyncratic language, generating semantic keys that cannot be deciphered by the listener, thus supporting the idea of ​​realizable meaning, as well as its complete absence.

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