GURZUF (Belarus)


accordion and drums madness

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gurzuf is a duo of the accordionist Egor Zabelov and the drummer Artem Zalesskiy. The band was created in 2005.

With typical Slavic energy and emotion they guarantee an explosive show and easily make the audience forget that in fact they are just a duo.

These musicians are taking you on their breathtaking roller coaster of melodic beauty, rhythmic ecstasy and joyful play of an unusual intensity with a strong rock-'n-roll attitude. Their music is a happy synthesis of punk, hip hop and rock with classical and folk influences, sometimes minimalistic, the other time bursting out in total chaos. Gurzuf breaks with existing themes from the very first notes with hard-to-label, unique and fascinating music.

The band has been taking part in different music festivals, has performed solo concerts on Russian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, French, German, Swiss, Spanish, Portuguese and British stages. Their first album "Non-existent movie" was recorder in spring 2007 on the record studio of Mosfilm. In 2006 the band was awarded "Breakthrough of the year" and "Professionalism of the year" in Belarus.
Recently "Gurzuf" composed soundtrack for the performance "Moby Dick" which was released in one of the Magdeburg theaters this spring.

In under two years of band's existence guys have managed to achieve quite a lot: they've composed and recorded a couple of sound tracks for the Belarusian puppet theater plays, released a full-length album, achieved a great level of popularity in the neighboring countries - they're now cruising with concerts in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Russia all the time (in fact it is very sad we no longer see that much of them in Belarus).

Their level of professionalism was previously recognized with many awards on Russian and Polish alternative music festivals, and represented Belarus at the "Global Battle of the bands" in London in 2007.

Festivals: SKIF (St.Petersburg, Russia), Pustye holmy (Moscow, Russia), Podwodny Wroclaw (Wroclaw, Poland), Nancy Jazz Pulsations (Nancy, France), accordion festival "Le Grand Soufflet" (Rennes, France), Roulements de Tabour (Rennes, France), CT Jazz (Lublin, Poland), accordion festival "Le Printemps des Bretelles" (Strasbourg, France), B-Sides (Lucern, Switzerland), Gena festival (Geneva, Switzerland), Totaal festival (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Slot Art Fest (Wroclaw, Poland), Global Battle of the bands (London, UK), Accordion festival Vienna (Austria)