Leanid Arturavich Zeudel-Volski (born on 14 September 1965 in Minsk), better known as Lavon Volski, is a Belarusian musician, writer, painter, and founder of the Belarusian rock groups Mroja, N.R.M., Zet, and Krambambula.

Biography

Lavon Volski is a Belarusian rock musician, an author of music and lyrics, poet, artist, group leader of N.R.M. and Krambambula, the owner of numerous musical awards, both personal and as a member of various collectives.

Career

He was a vocalist and a keyboard player of the Belarusian Rock-band Mroja. He wrote lyrics for ULIS, album Pa-nad dachami (1995) and was guitar player and the vocalist of Novaje Nieba. Now he is the rhythm guitar player and the vocalist of N.R.M., Zet and Krambambula. In 2008 he has also started a solo career and released a first album called "Bielaja jablynia hromu" in March 2010. For the Belarusian speaking radioprogramme Radio Svaboda he writes sharp-ironical Cabaret-styled songs about political and social topics. In 2014 he released a solo album Social Science - an author's view of the problems of modern Belarusian society. On the New Year 2019 he acted and directed the musical show “We will be not understood in Moscow” by Tuzin.fm, “Belsat Music Live”, and himself.

Publications

He wrote two books of poetry: Kalidor ("Corridor") (1993) and Fotaalbom ("Photo album") (2000), a prose book Milarus ("Dear + Belarus") (2011) and writes for Nasha Niva and the Teksty magazine.

Discography

With Mroya (1986-1994)

With N.R.M.

With Krambambula

Solo projects

Collaborative albums

Singles and EPs

Compilation albums

Miscellanea

Four songs written by Lavon Volski were performed in the 2006 documentary A Lesson of Belarusian, which dealt with the Belarusian democracy movement and the 2006 re-election of Alexander Lukashenko as president. Three of these were performed by N.R.M., the other by Belarusian students. The song Try čarapachi that he wrote for the namesake album became very popular among Belarusians. It is often performed during opposition protests, among students, and among Belarusians in emigration. At the end of 2023, Belarusian courts added Volsky's Telegram and Instagram pages to the list of extremist materials.

Soundtracks and arrangements

Awards