Nina Nastas­ia is an accom­plished musi­cian, song­writer and per­former who cur­rently makes her home in New York, but she’s play­ing at the Bar Bodega on Fri­day night with Jim White (out of Aus­sie week-long-music­al-wake post-rock­ers The Dirty Three).


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An uncred­ited writer once wrote:

Nina Nastas­i­a’s rare gift of a voice is an intim­ate, winged pres­ence that is able to either freeze or melt your heart, that can power­fully soar and twist, or brush ultra-gently against you, sud­denly sum­mon­ing goose bumps. Mojo com­men­ted on its abil­ity to “suck the air out of the room”. Pick­ing over themes of love, long­ing and loss, child­hood, dreams and human dra­mas, her beau­ti­fully con­cise, hook-laden song­writ­ing and the spare arrange­ments of her band have a cer­tain gritty, rus­tic charm and intens­ity. Sim­ul­tan­eously tough and fra­gile, her songs crackle and smoulder with an intim­ate emo­tion­al hon­esty and a dark under­tow.

NINA NASTASIA AND JIM WHITE
BAR BODEGA
FRIDAY 20th JULY
Pre­s­ales are avail­able from Slow Boat Records