Artists
who's who and who's doing what?GURZUF
line up
- Artem Zalesskiy (drums)
- Egor Zabelov (accordion)
- country:Belarus, Republic of
- region or city:Eastern Europe
- style(s):Contemporary World
- label:not signed
- type:Band, Composer/Songwriter
- gender:male
- instrumentation:instrumental
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Gurzuf is an unprecedent duo of accordion and drums. Enough ingredients in the skilled hands of Egor Zabelov and Artem Zalessky, to create a music of unusual intensity, a resounding turmoil that makes you breathless, a torrent of images, evocation and sensations that touch us causing a deep experience of catharsis shared between the musicians and the audience.
An exaltation of melodic beauty, rhythmic ecstasy, pleasure in harmony and definitely in the search for the essence of music.
Gurzuf breaks topics and thrills from the first compass with an unclassifiable and unique, splendid and captivating and amazing music.
To have some impression better to watch videos, their music is hard to describe.
Gurzuf - GBOB Challenge 2007 World Finalist from Belarus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65-t4XGPGk0
Ikra club, Moscow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDqfx-5Uuvw
Yakiza, Poland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AHiVA5dikY
Arsena&322;, Poland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5feRA2-BYkI
L'Usine, Geneva CH Support act for Secret Chiefs 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6jgqpcoW7I
They are playing... well, if I am allowed to add a bit of personal impression here, I'd characterize this as "imagine if King Crimson were to play the tunes of Philip Glass with an accordion".
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 now finally with an invitation to represent our country at the GBOB competition.
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" (Strasburg, France), B-Sides (Lucern, Swizerland), Gena festival (Geneva, Switzerland), Totaal festival (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Slot Art Fest (Wroclaw, Poland), "Global Batlle of the bands" (London, UK)
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