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