Bristeil

Bristeil

Bristeil in November 2014
Background information
Origin Minsk, Belarus
Genres Intelligent rock
Years active 2013–present
Associated acts Hair Peace Salon, Lana Del Rey, Tricky
Website www.bristeil.com
Members Aleh Vial
Max Bykau
Gena Lukashanets
Alex Stepanovich

Bristeil is an independent band, which playing in indie rock style, although they call their music style as intelligent rock[1] and located in Minsk, Belarus.[2] The band sings euphonic rock songs in the Belarusian language.[3] The band was formed in 2013 year by frontman Hair Peace Salon band Aleh Vial, which considered as one of the best rock performers in Belarus.[4] They released their debut EP, Cyruĺnia Svietu (Barbershop of the World into English), on 26 May 2014.[5]

History

Hair Peace Salon background

Roots of Bristeil grow to Hair Peace Salon band. This band was formed in 1998 year and had some success story with self-final place of Global Battle of the Bands in 2007 year and participations in more music festivals.[6] There was a band, which had over 10 years on indie-rock and power-pop Belarusian scene with mostly English language songs.[7] They released a full leigh album Gentleman in 2012 and a lot of singles and EPs during of all times.[8][9] Since last LP release Hair Peace Salon was some inactive on the music stage and in 2013 year their frontman Aleh Vial decided to make his music further. He paused Hair Peace Salon music chapter to make herself music in a new project.[10] Hair Peace Salon band drummer Alex Stepanovich formed the new band with Aleh Vial too.[1]

Bristeil

On the end of 2013 two others members joined to Bristeil: bass player Gena Lukashanets and lead guitarist Max Bykau.[1] The band was completed. On 3 December 2013 the band released their first single "Heta Mahčyma" ("It’s Possible" in English) on Soundcloud that was a part of future debut EP.[10] There was they first music release, which Bristeil announced new Belarusian maxi-single that will be coming out on the spring 2014.[11]

The debut EP Cyruĺnia Svietu was released on 26 May 2014.[5] For this EP Bristeil wrote four Belarusian tracks, two of which are covers: the Lana Del Rey hit song "Video Games" and Hair Peace Salon's song "Out of Time".[12] This release was denoted the end of previous music phase and birth the new music stage of the band.[13]

On 21 September 2014 Bristeil released their first video single called "Muzyka Hučyć" ("Music Sounds" in English).[14] On the start of October this video was rereleased to main version.[15] Bristeil made this music video based on a live session footage of the "Unfinished Song" to Tricky’s contest, which frontman Aleh Vial won a year ago.[16]

The band’s music activities of 2014 were helped by receiving a nomination to «Opening of the Year» award by the biggest belarusian music portal Tuzin.fm.[17] The awards show was on 12 December 2014, on which Bristeil planned to perform, but in the last moment bassist Gena Lukashanets injured her finger. The band did not perform on the live show, but met with their fans on the awards show venue.[18] On the start 2015 Bristeil opened their official website.[19]

The name change

In the same time when the first music video was released the band changed its name. The band name "Bristol" was changed to "Bristeil". The band leader Aleh Vial told about it in a statement to Tuzin.fm music portal:

“ The band name is writing as «Bristeil» now. This correction we made only for practical reasons to make easier find us in the Web, but Bristeil is still a some definite place in which there it is good and music & soul are in him.[20] ”

Band members

Discography

EPs

Singles

Year Title
2013 "Heta Mahčyma"
2014 "Muzyka Hučyć"

Music videos

Year Title
2014 "Muzyka Hučyć"

Awards and nominations

Heroes of the Year awards (presented by Tuzin.fm)

Year Recipient Award Result
2014 Bristeil Opening of the Year style="background: #FDD; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="no table-no2"|Nominated[21]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Text Press Kit" (PDF). Bristeil. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Bristeil Artist Info". Birp.fm. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "Bristeil (Bristol). Тузін Гітоў. Слушны музычны партал" [Bristeil (Bristol). Tuzin Gitoy. Worthwhile musical portal] (in Belarusian). Tuzin.fm. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Константин Карман (группа"Hair Peace Salon"): Бегать по "Динамо" и искать новую маечку - слишком дорого" [Konstantin Karman («Hair Peace Salon» band), «There is too expensive to run around the "Dynamo" stadium and look for a new T-shirt»] (in Russian). Ctv.by. 20 June 2010. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Cyruĺnia Svietu | Bristeil". Bandcamp.com. 26 May 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  6. ↑ Гітоў, Тузін (9 April 2009). "Перазагрузка: Hair Peace Salon" [Reboot: Hair Peace Salon] (in Belarusian). Tut.by. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "Music | HAIR PEACE SALON". Bandcamp.com. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
  8. ↑ "Hair Peace Salon Discography". discogs. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  9. ↑ "Gentleman | HAIR PEACE SALON". Bandcamp.com. 21 March 2012. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Kalesnіkava, Masha (3 December 2013). "Лідар Hair Peace Salon прэзентуе новы гурт (+слухаць)" [Frontman of Hair Peace Salon presents a new band] (in Belarusian). Experty.by. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  11. ↑ "Bristeil (Bristol) - Гэта магчыма. Тузін Гітоў. Слушны музычны партал" [Bristeil (Bristol) - It’s possible. Tuzin Gitoy. Worthwhile musical portal] (in Belarusian). Tuzin.fm. 7 January 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  12. ↑ "Bristol перасьпяваў Hair Peace Salon i Лану Дэль Рэй па-беларуску (аўдыё). Тузін Гітоў. Слушны музычны партал" [Bristol covered Haire Peace Salon and Lana Del Rey on the Belarusian language. Tuzin Gitoy. Worthwhile musical portal] (in Belarusian). Tuzin.fm. 30 May 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  13. ↑ Malinoyski, Ilya (29 May 2014). "Гурт Bristol выдаў дэбютны EP (+слухаць)" [Bristeil band released debut EP (+listen)] (in Belarusian). Experty.by. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  14. ↑ "Олег Вяль и Bristol доделали незавершённый трек Tricky (слушать)" [Aleh Vial and Bristol finished an unfinished track by Tricky (listen)] (in Russian). Euroradio.fm. 23 September 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  15. ↑ Bristeil - Muzyka Hučyć (Live Studio Session). YouTube. 9 November 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  16. ↑ "Спеть вместе с Tricky: миссия не выполнена" [To sing with Trucky: mission is not performed] (in Russian). Euroradio.fm. 12 December 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  17. ↑ ""Герои года — 2014". Шорт-лист премии от Tuzin.fm" [Short-list of Tuzin.fm awards] (in Russian). Tut.by. 3 December 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  18. ↑ Bristeil (25 December 2014). "Happy Holidays from Bristeil band!". Bristeil fans newsletter (Mailing list). Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  19. ↑ "Bristeil | We present our website". Bristeil. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  20. ↑ "Гурт Bristol перайменаваны ў Bristeil" [Bristol band renamed to Bristeil] (in Belarusian). Tuzin.fm. 7 Oct 2014. Retrieved 7 Feb 2015.
  21. ↑ ""Героі году — 2014". Шорт-ліст прэміі ад Tuzin.fm." [Heroes of year 2014. Awards shortlіst presented by Tuzin.fm.] (in Belarusian). Tuzin.fm. 12 November 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2015.

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