Tolstoys are just a couple of good daughters and sons playing their hearts out. Our latest journey with our second album ‘Mirror Me’ embraces the marriage of music and visual art. We release each of its ten chapters accompanied by a music video in collaboration with a different visual artist as well as a remix by a peak talent from our home scene. The album is produced by Berlin based producers Drew Deal and Grammy nominated audio engineer Zino Mikorey melding groovy fretless beats, prickly 80s casio synths and pristine voice of frontwoman Ela with a tailored visual identity fixing up a captivating concoction of emotion, sound and color.

‘Mirror Me’ explores the notion that all of our feelings, habits and patterns stem from how our parents, friends and lovers were treating us in the past. That in reality we are just a reflection mirroring our surroundings. Every song is an attempt to step out of our human body and observe our emotions from a distance, comprehend them and finally make us the masters and true the origin of our own self. It is my attempt to mirror me.

Our first album “Botanika“ won the Debut of the Year at the Radio_Head Awards 2017. We performed repeatedly at the biggest local festivals, such as Pohoda, Grape or Colours of Ostrava and also at important showcase festivals around Europe, such as MENT, BUSH, Waves, or Eurosonic Noorderslag. In the past we supported Tom Odell and Lola Marsh during the Slovak leg of their tours, with the project “Botanika Klasika“ we toured with a string quartet and even performed with a Symphonic Orchestra at the Slovak National Theatre. Our frontwoman Ela was included in the prestigious 30 Under 30 by Forbes.