BY Fest 2023
Feel the real Belarusian vibe at the first BY Fest music festival in Cyprus! The magic atmosphere will be created for you by:
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Šuma – Belarusian ethnic electronics. The project collects ancient pagan chants and broadcasts them through electronic music, thus Shuma preserves the cultural code of Belarus and popularizes the traditional culture of the descendants of the VKL. Music genre: electronica with elements of ethno, ambient, deep, hypnotic techno and abstract IDM.
The band's masterpieces is created on the border between ancient culture and current electronic music. Sometimes the vocalist of the band also performs pagan songs exactly as they were sung during rituals in ancient times.
The Šuma project is developing dynamically and attracting the attention of a growing audience from all over the world.
Watch the video ➙ DREVA ➙ KUPALINKA
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NaviBand is an indie-pop/indie-folk band from Belarus. Currently located in Poland. After the political protests of the 20th year, they were banned in Belarus and were forced to leave the country. Now they are actively touring the European cities with concerts in support of victims of the war in Ukraine.
Bright voices, a mixture of pop melodies with folk motifs, acoustic instruments with synthesizers and drum machines in a trio format. From atmospheric and emotional vocal ambients to melodic pop tracks.
In 2017, NaviBand took first place in the finals of the national selection and received the right to represent Belarus at the International Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in May 2017 in Kyiv, becoming the first participant in the history of the contest to perform a song in Belarusian.
Watch the video ➙ Historyja Majho Zyccia ➙ Biažy
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Piotr Klueev aka Love Machine was born in Grodno, Belarus in 1989. He is a pianist, singer, musician, author, composer and performer. In the 10th grade he began to play the piano, training for 7-8 hours a day. His teachers were well-known musicians from Belarus. Piotr studied philosophy, social sciences and international relations.
He was a member of various musical projects, including LSP, Stop Time, New Jerusalem, Amplitude Smelasci and others. He toured extensively in Belarus, Poland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine and Estonia. The war in Ukraine forced Piotr to leave for Poland, where he now experiments and creates a variety of music with the aim to spread a message of love and the establishment of peace.
Official website ➙ https://thereallovemachine.com/
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Look forward to see you at the fest! It will be epic;)
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