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www.ekatbork.comBIO: http://www.ekatbork.com/biography/Ekat Bork is incredibly STRONG. She is physically powerful, willfully relentless, utterly determined. From the day she stole the money to escape her grey Siberian life and find a new life in the West, she has fought the world and won.Her new album “YASДYES” exemplifies that strength of character. Translating from the Russian as “I Am Here Now”, it is not music for the faint-hearted. Departing from the soft, strung out, lush production of her acclaimed debut “Veremellious”, this is dark, deep, electronic, subversive... and yet soulful. Her voice seduces and commands, dominating the pulsing machines, pounding drums and searing guitars that surround her. It comes from somewhere ancient and mysterious. It is the release of pent-up energy, barely contained and often erupting with heart-wrending, volcanic, visceral power in fourteen autobiographical songs.Written on her travels across Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Germany and Portugal, these tracks never surrender to convention or pander to populism. The music is rhythmic, serrated, sensual, unnerving, created by a woman who has battled all her life and is afraid of nothing. Each track challenges the listener, demanding that you raise your game. They are moments of her life stripped bare, “Naked to love” as she says in the first single, “Red Sektor”. They are raw expressions of her feelings and they are not easy listening. “Only those who want to will hear,” she says. When asked to describe each song she dismisses the idea. “It’s up to you to hear what I am saying, to describe it in words.” She adds, “Listen to my song Zhazhda, ‘I want you hear me more...’.”Take a step out of your comfort zone and bathe in the thrill of emotional freedom. Once you let go, you will only want to hear her more.Ekat Bork’s new album, “YASДYES”, preceded by three video singles "RED SEKTOR",”HAPPINESS” and “FEAR”, has been released on November 4th, 2016.See her live and prepare to be challenged.
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Ekat Bork Biography
In the land where Ekat Bork was born (43°48′N 131°58′E) tigers, snow leopards and bears lived in the woods. On the coldest days they might roam into the suburbs, scavenging for food. The neighbouring settlements were Uncle Joe’s gulags or outposts of the Russian military machine. Ekat was too young to remember the Soviet Union.
“Because you make me weird.”*
The people Ekat knew made shoes and soap and sugar and repaired locomotives. The oldest cinema in town was called the Grand Illyuzion. Sometimes, if there was a little money, her mother would take her shopping in China, 35 miles to the west, or she would venture the same distance east to stare out at the ocean towards Japan. Her mother struggled. She lived with her grandmother. She didn’t know her father.
“My mind is falling. I am falling. I might fall down.”*
Like most of Russia, the circus and theatre were embedded in the culture. Her city had a military theatre, 6000 miles away from Moskow. It also had a circus. Ekat learned the trapeze and gymnastics. She sang traditional songs of the Russian far east. She danced wildly. She studied at the university. She watched heavy metal bands but didn’t understand them. She packed all she had, stole the money from her mother’s purse and caught the Trans-Siberian Express to St Petersburg. It took nine days.
“Run away. Swim in the emptiness.”*
She crashed in filthy squats with no-name bands, she sang in the metro for food money. She worked and was fired for singing instead of selling. She escaped again, this time to Switzerland.
She studied “singing and contemporary writing and production” and made contacts within the musical world of Switzerland and Italy. Ekat expresses herself by writing music, lyrics and arrangiaments.
June 2013 she released her first album “Veramellious” produced by the Indie Label GinkhoBox with her manager Silvio Cattaneo and the music producers Francesco Fabris and Sandro Mussida. The album with eleven songs written by herself and recorded in 10 different locations around the EU, from simple like her own bedroom, to the most prominent studios like the Officine Meccaniche in Milan.
In October/ December 2013 she performed with Eric Martin and Jannifer Batten in acoustic and in electric shows on a long tour in Italy, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Hollandand and England.
In 2014 she reached the most important stages in Switzerland like the Gurten Festival, M4music , Label Suisse, while she was composing her new album.
From 2015 she was working on her new album “yasДyes” ( “I am here now”) recorded in different locations in Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Poland and Germany.
January 2016 Album mastering at Calyx studios in Berlin.
“I’m a fire, I’m a fire, burning with the sky”*
Ekat found love. She found music. She found an outlet for her anger, her passion, her uniqueness, her love of people, her desperation, her explosive sensuality. She found collaborators that understood her needs. She found audiences that needed her. She wrote and recorded one remarkable album, “Veremillious” and sucked up the knowledge to make an even better one, one that fully expressed her oblique outlook on the world, “yasДyes”.
NEW Album "YASDYES" OUT NOW!!! Follow her TOUR DATES.
Ekat Bork is still escaping…
“You’re trying to gag me. You never will.”*
* by Album “yasДyes”, Ekat Bork
Read More“Because you make me weird.”*
The people Ekat knew made shoes and soap and sugar and repaired locomotives. The oldest cinema in town was called the Grand Illyuzion. Sometimes, if there was a little money, her mother would take her shopping in China, 35 miles to the west, or she would venture the same distance east to stare out at the ocean towards Japan. Her mother struggled. She lived with her grandmother. She didn’t know her father.
“My mind is falling. I am falling. I might fall down.”*
Like most of Russia, the circus and theatre were embedded in the culture. Her city had a military theatre, 6000 miles away from Moskow. It also had a circus. Ekat learned the trapeze and gymnastics. She sang traditional songs of the Russian far east. She danced wildly. She studied at the university. She watched heavy metal bands but didn’t understand them. She packed all she had, stole the money from her mother’s purse and caught the Trans-Siberian Express to St Petersburg. It took nine days.
“Run away. Swim in the emptiness.”*
She crashed in filthy squats with no-name bands, she sang in the metro for food money. She worked and was fired for singing instead of selling. She escaped again, this time to Switzerland.
She studied “singing and contemporary writing and production” and made contacts within the musical world of Switzerland and Italy. Ekat expresses herself by writing music, lyrics and arrangiaments.
June 2013 she released her first album “Veramellious” produced by the Indie Label GinkhoBox with her manager Silvio Cattaneo and the music producers Francesco Fabris and Sandro Mussida. The album with eleven songs written by herself and recorded in 10 different locations around the EU, from simple like her own bedroom, to the most prominent studios like the Officine Meccaniche in Milan.
In October/ December 2013 she performed with Eric Martin and Jannifer Batten in acoustic and in electric shows on a long tour in Italy, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Hollandand and England.
In 2014 she reached the most important stages in Switzerland like the Gurten Festival, M4music , Label Suisse, while she was composing her new album.
From 2015 she was working on her new album “yasДyes” ( “I am here now”) recorded in different locations in Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Poland and Germany.
January 2016 Album mastering at Calyx studios in Berlin.
“I’m a fire, I’m a fire, burning with the sky”*
Ekat found love. She found music. She found an outlet for her anger, her passion, her uniqueness, her love of people, her desperation, her explosive sensuality. She found collaborators that understood her needs. She found audiences that needed her. She wrote and recorded one remarkable album, “Veremillious” and sucked up the knowledge to make an even better one, one that fully expressed her oblique outlook on the world, “yasДyes”.
NEW Album "YASDYES" OUT NOW!!! Follow her TOUR DATES.
Ekat Bork is still escaping…
“You’re trying to gag me. You never will.”*
* by Album “yasДyes”, Ekat Bork
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