Hello,

I'm Levan and currently I am based in south of Amsterdam - Amstelveen and working in a musical venue P60, where I am doing my one year ESC project. I am working as an artist host, so I am meeting the artists and showing them our club. If they need any kind of help they have to approach me. I personally met with artists like: Jan Akkerman, Chris Jagger (the brother of legendary Mick Jagger), Sevdaliza and many other musicians.

I'm always very active, communicative and friendly person. I try to motivate people and give them as much positive energy and emotions as I can.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/levan.katamadze
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ninshu_music/

I have been acting in theatre during 3 years, playing on guitar, piano and singing with my band, volunteering in more than 12 projects around the Europe and in my country, playing in clubs, bars and festivals my produced music.

Currently I am actively freelancing as a Live Performer and DJ/Producer. My musical project is based on improvised Georgian ethnic singing that I sing and perform in live with using a multi instrumental setup with synthesizers and drum machines. So, after releasing my debut LP album "Eri Madlieri" I performed in more that 7 countries. You can listen me on Soundcloud, Spotify, YouTube and other platforms with artist name "Ninshū".

If you are interested here is my music: https://linktr.ee/ninshumusic

I love traveling and meeting people from other countries, cultures and backgrounds and I always want to do and discover something new for me.
Sometimes people may seem very different, but it's so great to realize that you have lots of things in common as well, that is why I always want to meet new people and exchange the experiences we got, because that makes us more tolerant and knowledgeable about other nations. Everyone of us have lots of beautiful and interesting things to share, it just depends what qualities are you searching for in people.

Thanks for attention,
Best regards.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

For discovering new people, new emotions, making friends with creating good and unforgettable memories. Share experiences between each other.
I think everyone who is registered in Couchsufing is very active, communicative, kind and adventurous person, so love to meet and talk with such kind of people.

Interests

• photography
• music festivals
• cooking
• anime
• movies
• traveling
• electronic music
• hiking
• nature
• theatre
• vinyls
• night clubs

Music, Movies, and Books

I love music from old classical movies, especially I love composers like: Nino Rota and Ennio Morricone. Also I really love sci-fi movie composers like: Vangelis, Hans Zimmer, Jóhann Jóhannsson

In electronic music I love: Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Nujabes, Moderat, Apparat, Bicep, Bonobo, Four Tet, Floating Points, Satori, Nicolas Jaar, Weval, Stavroz, Tycho, Trentemoller, Monolink, David August, Rival Consoles, Burial, Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Brian Eno, Recondite, Giorgia Angiuli, Taron Trekka and many others.

Movies: Fantastic Planet, Blade Runner, Matrix, Annihilation, Arrival, Birdman, Whiplash, Eraserhead, 12 Angry Men, No Country for Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Lord of the Rings, American History X, Catch Me If You Can, New Cinema Paradise, It's a Wonderful Life and many others, including most of Quentin Tarantino's and Christopher Nolan's movies!

I am big ANIME and MANGA fan, even my artist name is from one anime. So, I love: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Berserk, Hunter x Hunter, Demon Slayer, Akame ga Kill, Vinland Saga, Death Parade, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Naruto, Samurai Champloo, Attack On Titan, Promised Neverland (I like only season 1), Grave of the Fireflies, Akira and others.

In books I love:
David Hooper – "Six Figure Musician"
David Byrne – "How Music Works"
Alex Novak – “The Book That Doesn’t Exist”
Dale Carnegie- "How to Win Friends and Influence People"
and others

Generally, I prefer reading professional development articles and books.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

During one month at the same time I was working on 2 jobs, volunteering at one NGO, taking piano, guitar and vocal lessons, acting in theatre, writing and then playing my electronic music in bars, studying Marketing at my University.
After one month I was just burned out and somehow I wanted to committee a suicide, but then I started to be focused on less things at the same time and to be more productive.

Teach, Learn, Share

Hello on Georgian language will be: "Gamarjoba" and it's written like this "გამარჯობა"

Georgian language in completely unique from any other languages in the world by the words, letter shapes, pronunciations and we don't have gender identity for 3rd conditional, he or she is the same word for us. Also we have lot`s of interesting, amazing and weird things about our old traditions and culture that I would like to share with a big pleasure.

Sometimes people get confused about who we are, because we all know that in USA there is one state with the same name "Georgia", but that is not only a state, that is also our country name.

Georgia is considered as a wine making country. We entered Guinness
Records book in 2017 as the oldest wine making cultures that have even been discovered by the scientist.
Nearly every family in villages have the vineyards and home made wine. Drinks, Food and Dances are the biggest tradition for us that we are proud of.
The only thing that I don't like is that our nation always thinks and do more for entertainment rather than do their job as it really needs to be done. Yes, we are little bit lazy nation and that is horrible, but all in all, Georgians are very friendly, hospitable, cheerful and artistic people, oh yes, and a bit lazy!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share a knowledge of music production and tell interesting stories about bands and music in general, share some nice albums, share all the experience I got in music and of course share some music. I can also play a little bit on synthesizers and drum machines that I am using. If you will be free you can come on my performance and I will include you in guest list! Also let me know how are your lovely artists and if you have a vinyl player at your house!

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Georgia, Netherlands, Russian Federation