About
The head of the Sol8 project is
Natalie Karpova — multi-instrumentalist, professional sound engineer
and sound designer from Moscow.
Natalie has an attraction for composing since childhood, but fate choosed the profession of physician for her. However, the musical art forever changed her life — she had to leave the main speciality and concentrate on creativity. Having graduated from the Moscow Institute of Television and Radio Ostankino, she began to work on her solo project.
So she dives deeply into the music studying playing ethnic instruments — percussion (djembe, kajon, conga, tabla, wadaiko), piano, guitar and, of course, sitar. In this way, all these instruments can also be heard in sound textures of the Sol8 project.
In several years she began her teaching career and still the musical art remains main profession for her: she shares her knowledge in sound engineering and songwriting with many students and, besides that, Natalie teaches Japanese
and African percussion in the Moscow percussion school.
It’s hard to explain her music style. The atmosphere of the project includes a variety of music styles and the love for creative experiments. Slow rhythms in a mesmerizing harmony, old style ethno-trance or new sense of dubstep, mysterious India or wild Africa — all this can be heard in the magical texture of the Sol8 project.
Let’s spice it with the good portion of subbass and we’ll get the mix of psybass, ethnofusion, psychill, ambient, ethno trap, d’n’b and even dubstep… What are you waiting for?!
«My mission is to open for you the world of perfect, in my opinion, creativity — through the prism of ethnics, rock and ambient.
My final stop is my love of music and everything I do.
My search for myself ended at this point. In the past, I had built a career as a doctor, but inside I didn’t find a response to my actions.
I can honestly and without exaggeration say that I am a victim of music; a victim of its splendor and perfection. I have spent a good part of my life studying all aspects of musical development: sound engineering, arranging, songwriting, and composing.
But I am sure that my curiosity to solve the musical mystery requires more than one life… and therefore our journey will be eternal. And I share my impressions of it with you, my dear Listener.»
- Sol8 -
