Bez bileta

beZ bileta is a Belarusian alternative music band.

Group members

(valid for December 2006 )
* Vitaly Artist – vocals, music and lyrics
* Sergei Bakovets – guitar
* Denis Shurov – drums
* Pavel Kudrin – keyboards, flute, percussion
* Tanya Kushner – music videos, music, lyrics

About beZ bileta

The group was organized by Vitaly Artist in 1998 and so far has remained one of the most vivid representatives of Belarusian music culture. Having started with Folk songs in Belarusian, by the year 2004 the Minsk band passed on to complicated electronic versions of Indie rock. In 2005 they started towards some simplification of sound, making it even more perfect and rich at the same time. The three periods of creative evolution of "beZ bileta" are reflected in their albums “Up into the sky” (2001), “Drawn” (2004) and the maxi-single «Amendment 22» (2006).

"BeZ bileta" were twice given the prestigious Belarusian Music Award “The Rock Coranation”: in 2000 as “Discovery of the Year” and in 2001 for “Song of the Year” for their hit “My Motherland Belarus”. The group has got valuable experience of performing on the festival stages of Belarus (“Slavyansky Bazar”), Poland "Basóvišča", “Fiesta Borealis”, Italy (“Spirit of Woodstock”), Germany(“Good-By”).

"BeZ bileta" is known for the spectacular visual presentation of its songs in Belarus and abroad. The band’s music videos (most of them made by a talented director Tanya Kushner) have never gone unnoticed. The “video storage” of the group "beZ bileta" contains both animated videos (“Stop Business”, “Went Further”) and art videos (“Drawn”, “What's above”) as well as a lively narrative video “Two Boats”. The animated music video “Went Further” (directed by Tanya Kushner, animated by Denis Volkov) took part in prestigious animation festivals in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Italy, Great Britain, Australian. Experts unanimously claim this video to be one of the best in the history of Belarusian music video making. The music video “A Place for You” that came off in spring 2006 has immediately gained the hieratic status. The video is made up from the photos of the group members, their friends and common people who can’t remain indifferent to "beZ bileta".

The band’s leader Vitaly Artist is known as the author of the sound-track for one of Russia’s most renowned blockbusters of 2006 “Hunting the Piranha”. Vitaly also composes music for soap-operas (“Men don’t cry”), a romantic thriller "A Joke" (2007), theatrical performans (“Thereaflter” staged by the Minsk Theatre “Inzhest”), teleprojects (the new season of the popular TV programme series “Sasha and Sirozha”), cartoons and promos. In Autumn 2006 Artist finished working on the sound-track for the Russian soap-opera “Supermarket” coming out at the beginning of 2007.

Actions

"BeZ bileta" is a music band distinguished for the annual celebration of “Deadhead’s Day”, it being known that not only the members of the group but also their fans and everyone, who wants to join the positive and creative action, take part in the festivities. The list of entertainments prepared by Vitaly Artist and his band includes free disk-for-citation exchange, a mini on-the-phone concert from the leader of the group for everyone, who managed to get through, the band’s songs’ remix contest for musicians from different countries of the world, cover versions competition. Thus, the winner of the “Deadhead’s Day” show had a chance to perform together with "beZ bileta" during their tremendously successful concert on November 10 in the Minsk nightclub “Reactor”.

"BeZ bileta" is always the focus of attention for the press, radio-, tele- and web journalists.

Discography

# 2001—Up into the sky
# 2004—Drawn
# 2006—Amendment-22
# 2007—Kino

External links

* [http://bezbileta.net/ official website]