{{Short description|Belarusian Christian and pop rock band}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Spasenie | image = Spasenie.jpg | image_size = | image_upright = | landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> | alt = Igor Mukha, Dave Geer, Pavel Shelpuk, Mike Choby (from left to right) from Spasenie in 2011 | caption = Igor Mukha, Dave Geer, Pavel Shelpuk, Mike Choby (from left to right) from Spasenie in 2011 | alias = Спасение | origin = Brest, Belarus | genre = Christian rock, pop rock | years_active = <!-- {{start date|YYYY}}–{{end date|YYYY}} (or –present) -->1989 – present | label = Music Center C, Новое Христианское Творчество | website = <!-- {{URL|www.example.com}} or {{Official URL}} -->{{URL|spasenie.com}} | current_members = Igor Mukha, Pavel Shelpuk, Peter Semenuk, Mike Choby, Dmitriy Golodko | past_members = | module = | module2 = | module3 = }}
'''Spasenie''' is a Belarusian Christian and pop rock band from Brest, which formed in 1989.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://denlepp.wixsite.com/xristianin/spasenie|title=Христианин {{!}} Спасение|website=xristianin|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806175145/http://denlepp.wixsite.com/xristianin/spasenie|archive-date=August 6, 2019|url-status=live|access-date=August 6, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.xristianin.org/spasenie|title=ХрисТанин │ Спасение|website=www.xristianin.org|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806175448/https://www.xristianin.org/spasenie|archive-date=August 6, 2019|url-status=live|access-date=August 6, 2019}}</ref>
==History== The band was formed in August 1989,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nestor.minsk.by/mg//news/2005/07/2801.html|title=Альбом "Crossing the Jordan" брестской группы Spasenie совместно с американцами из Crossroads|last=Агейчик|first=Светлана|year=2005|publisher=Muzykalnaya Gazeta|language=ru|orig-year=2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806140434/http://www.nestor.minsk.by/mg//news/2005/07/2801.html|archive-date=August 6, 2019|access-date=August 6, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> when an impromptu concert they gave in Brest City Park spontaneously gathered about 150 people. After the performance, the players soon formed the band.<ref name="Нести Бога в музыке">{{Cite journal|last=Перлин|first=Евгений|year=2006|orig-year=2006|title=Spasenie Нести Бога в музыке|url=http://www.nestor.minsk.by/mg/2006/49/mg64916.html|url-status=live|journal=Muzykalnaya Gazeta|language=ru|volume=49|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806140939/http://www.nestor.minsk.by/mg/2006/49/mg64916.html|archive-date=August 6, 2019}}</ref>
In the same year, they started to rehearse, wrote the first songs and, a few months later, were invited to tour across Yakutia.<ref name="Нести Бога в музыке" />
For the band's 17th anniversary, they gave a big concert with the orchestra at the Palace of the Republic, which recording was released on the DVD ''17 Live'' in 2006.<ref name="Нести Бога в музыке" />
A feature of the band is that music is written by not one but all members.<ref name="Нести Бога в музыке" />
The band has very often toured abroad: with performances, musicians attended the Baltic countries, Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Germany, Canada, Russia, the US, the UK, South Korea, South Africa, and more regions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.interfax.by/article/13092|title=Гитарист Фила Коллинза продюсирует брестскую группу "Spasenie"|date=June 10, 2005|publisher=Interfax|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807161420/https://www.interfax.by/article/13092|archive-date=August 7, 2019|url-status=live|access-date=August 7, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://virtualbrest.by/news45600.php|title=Брест : Концерт "Любимой женщине" камерного оркестра филармонии и группы "Спасение"|date=March 6, 2017|publisher=Virtual Brest|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807170835/https://virtualbrest.by/news45600.php|archive-date=August 7, 2019|url-status=live|access-date=August 7, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://virtualbrest.by/news3485.php|title=Группе Спасение - 20 лет!|last=Магдысюк|first=Сергей|date=December 30, 2009|publisher=Virtual Brest|language=ru|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922031908/http://virtualbrest.by/news3485.php|archive-date=September 22, 2017|accessdate=December 11, 2019}}</ref>
On August 3, 2019, the band celebrated the 30th anniversary with a major concert with the orchestra at Lenin Square in Brest.<ref name="Скрипка со">{{Cite web|url=http://www.vb.by/|title=Скрипка со столетней брестской историей. На концерте "Спасения" произошло чудо возвращения|last=Мощик|first=Сергей|date=August 4, 2019|publisher=Vecherniy Brest|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808100736/https://vb.by/culture/music/koncert_30_let_spaseniya.html|archive-date=August 8, 2019|url-status=live|access-date=August 8, 2019}}</ref>
==Name== The name "Spasenie" ({{langx|ru|Спасение}}; {{Translation|Salvation}}) was chosen while on a train to Yakutia in the early 1990s to represent that they see music as salvation <ref name="В Музыке 2005">{{Cite web|year=2005|title=Spasenie :: В Музыке|url=http://www.nestor.minsk.by/mg/articles/2005/23/0900.html|url-status=live|language=ru|publisher=Muzykalnaya Gazeta|issue=23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806135047/http://www.nestor.minsk.by/mg/articles/2005/23/0900.html|archive-date=August 6, 2019|access-date=August 6, 2019|last=Самусик|first=Ольга|author-link=Volha Samusik}}</ref>
==Language== For the first 15 years of its existence, the band sang exclusively in Russian, but with the release of the album ''Crossing the Jordan'', the English language became heard much more frequently in their songs. Vocalist Igor Mukha answered Volha Samusik from Muzykalnaya Gazeta on the language, saying {{Blockquote |text=We live in Brest. This is actually the border. Its peculiar feature is the mixture of languages. There are a lot of words from Ukrainian, Polish... There was never neither the clean Belarusian nor the Russian language. Therefore, we sang not in the native but in the Russian language. Although I recognize the indisputable melodicism of Belarusian, English is also very musically flexible. If we compare it with Russian, then to sing in the last one is harder because of all these combinations of letters "br," "str," etc. So it was not difficult to switch for us.}} <ref name="В Музыке 2005" />
==Social activity== Every year since 2005 the band holds the rock music festival-competition "X-Star" and organizes an annual large youth concert in Brest called "The City of Light" ({{langx|ru|"Город света"}}) since 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vb.by/culture/music/igor_muha_o_muzyke.html|title=Лидер группы "Спасение" Игорь МУХА: "После "Песняров" у нас нет никого..."|last=Мощик|first=Сергей|date=August 3, 2019|publisher=Vecherniy Brest|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806140009/https://vb.by/culture/music/igor_muha_o_muzyke.html|archive-date=August 6, 2019|access-date=August 6, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> The participants also oppose abortion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.tut.by/culture/53634.html|title=Интервью с солистом группы "Spasenie" Игорем Мухой накануне концерта 1 июня в клубе "Реактор"|last=Зробок|first=Ольга|work=TUT.BY |date=May 26, 2005|publisher=TUT.BY|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830072634/https://news.tut.by/culture/53634.html|archive-date=August 30, 2019|url-status=dead|access-date=August 30, 2019}}</ref>
In 2019 the band prepared and launched a guided tour together with National Academy of Sciences of Belarus named "Brest is the city of the Bible."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Полякова|first=Виктория|date=October 25, 2019|orig-year=2019|title=Лидер группы "Спасение" Игорь Муха: "Мы выросли в раю"|journal=Брестская Газета|type=newspaper|language=ru|volume=43|issue=880|pages=8–9}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=БГ|date=2020-01-17|orig-year=2020|title=В новый год с надеждами и "осторожным, тревожным оптимизмом"|journal=Брестская Газета|type=newspaper|language=ru|volume=3|issue=892|pages=8}}</ref>
== Discography == === Albums === * ''Хабаровский край'' (1992) * ''Возвращение домой'' (musical) (1992) * ''Старые песни'' (1992) * ''Мой Бог скала'' (1993) * ''Только Ты'' (1995) * ''Человек без зубила'' (1997) * ''Бьют часы'' (1998) * ''Exit'' (1999) * ''Летит безжалостное время'' (2000) * ''...а Солнце за кормой'' (2001) * ''Еврейский альбом'' (2001) * ''Без слов о том же'' (with Igor Rudy) (2003) * ''Кардиограмма'' (2003) * ''Crossing the Jordan'' (feat. Tim Spransy and Becky Sharp) (2004) * ''Acoustic'' (2007) * ''Spasenie'' (2009) * ''Reboot'' (wth Brian Montrey) (2011) * ''Вечные слова'' (2012)
===Compilation albums=== * ''10 лет, The Best'' (1999)
===Live DVD=== * ''17 Live'' (2007)
=== Participation in collections === * ''Серебряный граммофон'' (2006) (All-National TV), (track "Плачет небо").<ref name="unicat.nlb.by" /> * ''Золотая'' 20: зима 2007 (2006) (West Records), (track "Плачет небо").<ref name="unicat.nlb.by">{{Cite web|language=be|url=http://unicat.nlb.by/opac/pls/dict.prn_ref?tu=r&tq=v0&name_view=va_all&a001=BY-NLB-ar2778114&strq=l_siz=20|title="Спасенне", хрысціянская музычная група (Брэст)|publisher=National Library of Belarus|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827054444/http://unicat.nlb.by/opac/pls/dict.prn_ref?tu=r&tq=v0&name_view=va_all&a001=BY-NLB-ar2778114&strq=l_siz=20|archive-date=August 27, 2019|url-status=live|access-date=August 27, 2019}}</ref>
===Music videos=== * Никто кроме Тебя * Расстояние (2003) * На метр от земли (2004) * Плачет небо / The Word Was Spoken (2005) * Осень * Странные сны
==Awards and nominations== 2006 – Alpha-radio Awards "{{langx|ru|Золотое ухо}}".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://vminsk.by/news/30/37692/|title=Артистам добавили ушей|last=Честнова|first=Катерина|date=March 27, 2006|publisher=Vecherniy Minsk|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304135349/http://vminsk.by/news/30/37692/|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead|access-date=August 6, 2019}}</ref>
2009 – nomination in the contest "Just Pain Folks Music Awards" for the song "... а Солнце за кормой".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://naviny.by/rubrics/culture/2006/10/19/ic_articles_117_148410|title=Группа Spasenie номинирована на премию Just Pain Folks Music Awards|last=Руткевич|first=Диана|date=October 19, 2006|language=ru|publisher=BelaPAN|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806140224/https://naviny.by/rubrics/culture/2006/10/19/ic_articles_117_148410|archive-date=August 6, 2019|url-status=live|access-date=August 6, 2019}}</ref>
2009 – nomination in the category "For Contribution to the Development of Music" at the Annual Gospel Music Association Awards.
2010 – the Radio Brest festival "{{langx|ru|Знай Наших - 3}}": Best Band, Best Frontman (Igor Mukha).
2019 – diploma of the Brest City Council of Deputies.<ref name="Скрипка со" />
== Band members == {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} * Igor Mukha – vocals, saxophone, acoustic guitar <small>(1989—)</small> * Pavel Shelpuk – vocals, violin, guitars, bass <small>(1989—)</small> * Peter Semenuk – keyboards, vocals <small>(1989—)</small> * Mike Choby – bass * Dmitriy Golodko – solo guitar {{col-2}} ;Lyricist * Alex Borisyuk – guitar <small>(1989—)</small> ;Sound engineer * Andrey Kovalchuk ;Former members and tour musicians Tatiana Shelpuk (vocals, keyboards), Vadim Semenuk (drums), Vitaly Kalezhinsky (drums), Yezhy Khaichuk (drums), Alex Manetskiy (drums), Dave Geer (drums), Leonid Borisevich (solo guitar), Vasily Mashliakevich (bass), Stanislav Yanchin (bass), Dmitriy Branavitsckiy, Andrey Kleshchov, Danny Platt, Brian Montrey, etc.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://encyclopedia.christian.by/muzykalnye-gruppy-i-ispolniteli/31-gruppa-spasenie-spasenie-band-biografiya.html|title=Группа Спасение (Spasenie band) Биография - Христианская Онлайн Энциклопедия {{!}} Портал Христианин Christian.by|website=encyclopedia.christian.by|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806175709/http://encyclopedia.christian.by/muzykalnye-gruppy-i-ispolniteli/31-gruppa-spasenie-spasenie-band-biografiya.html|archive-date=August 6, 2019|url-status=live|access-date=August 6, 2019|language=ru}}</ref> {{col-end}}
== Literature == * {{cite book| author = Alaksandra Rohach| chapter = «Spasenie»| title = Энцыклапедыя беларускай папулярнай музыкі | others = уклад. Дз. Падбярэзскі і інш | edition = {{nowrap|2000 экз}} |location= Мінск |date = 2008 |publisher= {{ill|Zmicier Kołas|be-x-old|Зміцер Колас}} | pages = 292–293| isbn = 978-985-6783-42-8}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://www.discogs.com/artist/4989011-Spasenie Spasenie on Discogs] {{Authority control}}
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