33ა (33a) is a Georgian folk-rock band based out of Tbilisi. It was founded in 1994, during the troubled “dark 90s” of post-Soviet Georgia, led by Niaz Diasamidze. The name of the band, in fact, comes from the address of Diasamidze’s Tbilisi Apartment – 33a Paliashvili Street. All of the band members are Georgian. Diasamidze performs lead vocals and plays guitar, keyboard, and a traditional stringed instrument called a panduri, Spartak Kacharava plays drums, Achiko Tsimakuridze is lead guitar, and Ramaz Khatiashvili is on bass guitar. 33a’s musical genre can be best described as blend of folk, blues and soft rock. Drawing from Georgian and French traditional music styles, 33a fuses classic sounds with influences of pop, funk, and reggae. 33a is well known for soundtracks to films and TV shows, including the 2013 film Tangerines (Mandarinebi) about the 1992-1993 War in Abkhazia, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at both the Academy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards