Michelle Gurevich

Michelle's seventh album, recorded in her bedroom, titled *It Was the Moment*, won't disappoint those expecting a new soundtrack to accompany their melancholy and nostalgia.

It may even be her most vulnerable and expressive work to date, which is unsurprising since it was written and produced during a period of grief and mental instability.

These songs reveal a new level of emotional abandonment, confirming her place in the lineage of dramatic songwriters.

Themes include fatalistic surrender to passion, the ephemeral nature of encounters, the loss of her mother and home, the end of days, and the loss of reason in its best and worst manifestations.

Michelle deploys her full sonic palette here, from Lynch-like dark realism, to refined humor, through the role of epic melodrama queen.

With regularly sold-out concerts in cities like Istanbul, Berlin, Warsaw and Athens, Michelle has carved out a niche encompassing the Eastern European diaspora, the Berlin queer scene and those who appreciate the melodramatic ballads of Charles Aznavour, Zeki Müren and Nikolai Slichenko.

While her concerts feature more live aspects and a band of musicians, she continues to self-produce and self-release her own albums, thus maintaining intimacy and expression singularity – from her bedroom to yours.

A genre based partly on melody and style elements, but above all on a singular approach, both fatalistic and festive, to songwriting.