Belarusian rock has been developing since the early 1980s. The rock bands include Mroja (later renamed to N.R.M.), Ulis, Daj Darogu!, Kriwi, Lyapis Trubetskoy, Verasy, Open Space, Neuro Dubel, Accent, and Otrazhenie.
Metal bands are Asguard and TT-34. Basovišča was a Belarusian rock music festival organized in Gródek, Poland. Other festivals in the field were "Be Free" and "Rock-kola".
There is another side to Belarusian music life which is censorship. [1] Researchers Maya Medich and Lemez Lovas reported in 2006 that "independent music-making in Belarus today is an increasingly difficult and risky enterprise", and that the Belarusian government "puts pressure on ‘unofficial’ musicians - including ‘banning’ from official media and imposing severe restrictions on live performance." In a video interview on the Freemuse website, the two authors explain the mechanisms of censorship in Belarus. [2]
Another black list became known in 2011, when Krama, Krambambula, Lyapis Trubetskoy, N.R.M., Naka, Palats, Neuro Dubel among others were banned from performing concerts in Belarus. [3] [4]
Belarus is an Eastern European country with a rich tradition of folk and religious music. The country's folk music traditions can be traced back to the times of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The country's musical traditions spread with its people to countries like Russia, Canada, United States, Kazakhstan and Latvia. The people of Belarus were exposed mostly to Russian pop music during this period and also after independence in 1991. In 2002, however, President Alexander Lukashenko has signed a decree requiring 50% of all FM broadcast music to be Belarusian in origin, and since 1 January 2005 the rule has been even stricter. However, it does not regulate the language of the songs, so most of the music which is broadcast is still in Russian.
Belarusian culture is the product of a millennium of development under the impact of a number of diverse factors. These include the physical environment; the ethnographic background of Belarusians ; the paganism of the early settlers and their hosts; Eastern Orthodox Christianity as a link to the Byzantine literary and cultural traditions; the country's lack of natural borders; the flow of rivers toward both the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea; and the variety of religions in the region.
Basóvišča is the festival of Belarusian alternative and rock music, which is annually conducted by the Belarusian Association of Students since 1990.
Lyapis Trubetskoy is a Belarusian rock band. It was named after the comical hero from Ilya Ilf's and Yevgeny Petrov's novel "The Twelve Chairs", poet and potboiler Nikifor Lyapis, who used the pseudonym Trubetskoy.
Leanid Arturavich Zeudel-Volski, better known as Lavon Volski, is a Belarusian musician, writer, painter, and founder of the Belarusian rock groups Mroja, N.R.M., Zet, and Krambambula.
Be2gether or B2G was the largest annual music and arts festival in Baltic countries. Established in 2007, it took place in Norviliškės, Lithuania, just a few meters from the border with Belarus. In 2007, attendance was estimated at around 7,000–8,000 people, with an increase to 12,000 in 2008.
Krambambula is a Belarusian band from Minsk, started by Lavon Volski in 2001. The name of the band is derived from a popular Belarusian alcoholic tincture of the same name. The band performs humorous and satirical songs, often on an alcoholic theme. Krambambula was banned in Belarus from 2011 to 2017.
Siarhei Mikhalok is a Belarusian rock musician and actor. He was the frontman of the ska punk band Lyapis Trubetskoy that he dissolved on September 1, 2014. He was the frontman of the band Brutto, now leads Drezden.
Neuro Dubel is a Belarusian punk rock band originating from Minsk signed by West Records. It was founded by Alaksandar Kulinkovič and his brother-in-law Hienadź Ahiejčyk on 17 July 1989. The band was recognized as Rock-Kings twice at the Rock Coronation Belarusian Music Awards.
Autoradio was the first independent radio station in the independent Belarus. Autoradio was the first radio station in Belarus to broadcast after the Dissolution of the Soviet Union. It was broadcast from Minsk on the frequency 105.1 MHz from 7 August 1992 to 12 January 2011.
Hair Peace Salon is a power pop band from Minsk, Belarus, influenced by Britpop bands and British indie rock. Hair Peace Salon's music is notable in Belarus rock music by its use of English lyrics. The group was founded in 1998, and they have released one full-length album Gentleman, and numerous singles and EPs. In 2013, the members took a break when frontman and co-founder Aleh Vial created another band, Bristeil.
Budzma The Best Rock / Budzma The Best Rock/New is a two-disc compilation album by Belarusian rock bands. Both invited musicians and the winners of selection were put on the compilation. CDs were published by the public movement Budzma Belarusians! together with European Radio for Belarus in November 2009, and a few months later all of the FM-radio stations, regional and district Houses of Culture of Belarus received them. The compiler and mastering engineer is Slava Korań, the frontman of the ULIS band.
Tuzin.fm is a private non-profit Belarusian web-portal, which was created in 2003 to cover musical creativity in Belarus. Among its objectives, the site promotes music written in Belarus and motivates to listen to Belarusian songs as large an audience as possible. It initiates and implements music projects and is the information partner of the most significant events of the Belarusian independent music scene. Independently determining its information policy, the nature and content of the information, advertising, audio, and video materials, in 2009 the mass media had more than 50 thousand monthly visitors who downloaded more than 80 thousand songs.
Rusya is a Belarusian vocalist of the band Indiga, a "rock-princess" according to the results of the tenth Rock Coronation. She is additionally the vocalist of the band Šuma and also takes part in the bands such as Akana-NHS.
Volha Samusik was a Belarusian rock singer and journalist.
Be Free was a Belarusian rock festival that took place in Ukraine since 2007. Bands from Poland, Ukraine, and France participated in the festival too.
Mikola Jakaŭlievič Ravienski was a Belarusian composer, conductor and music critic who authored music for the famous hymn Mahutny Boža.
Jazep Losik was a Belarusian academic, leading figure of the independence movement and a victim of Stalin's purges.
BN is a Belarusian rock band founded in 1999 in Byaroza, in the Brest Region. The leader of the band is vocalist and guitarist Alaksandr Lutycz, the only member who has remained in the group continuously since its inception. The lyrics of BN's songs are written in the Belarusian language, with most of them authored by Siarhiej Maszkowicz. The band's musical style can be characterized as alternative rock with elements of grunge, punk rock, and alternative metal. Apart from Belarus, the group has also performed multiple times in Poland.
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