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N.R.M. (''Niezaležnaja Respublika Mroja'', "Independent Republic of Dreams" in English) are a rock band from Minsk, Belarus, founded in 1981 as Mroja ((ベラルーシ語:Мроя)). They are considered to be the most popular rock band in the country. They perform in the Belarusian language, and are a rallying point for political opposition to the Belarusian government, despite a performance ban used during 2006-2009 against them. == Biography == N.R.M. were founded as Mroja in 1981 at Alexei Glebov University in Minsk by Lavon Volsky (keys, vocals) and Vladimir Davidovsky (guitar). They held their first gig on 7 November 1981. Through the 1980s, there were several lineup changes. A few albums were also released. On 24 September 1989, the group played the Chervona Ruta festival in Chernovtsy, playing the songs "Šmat", "Australijskaja polka", "Mama - Mafija" and "Ziamla". In 1989, they recorded eight songs with producer Alexander Shtilman, released the following year as ''Dvaccać vośmaja zorka'' (28th Star) on Melodiya, the group's only release with the label. The lineup on ''DVZ'' was: Lavon Volsky - keyboards and lead vocals, Benedict Konev-Petushkovich - guitars, Yury Levkov - bass and Oleg Demidovich - drums and backing vocals. Davidovsky had left the group that year and was replaced by Konev-Petushkovich, who stayed on until 1992. He was replaced by Oleg Pipin and a couple of others before settling with Pete Pavlov in 1993. The Volsky-Pavlov-Levkov-Demidovich lineup would rename itself to NRM in late 1994. Their music tends toward melodic hard rock with witty and often indirectly political lyrics. The band's albums and publicity materials generally use the Łacinka alphabet, the Belarusian version of the Latin alphabet that was widely used alongside Cyrillic prior to the establishment of the Soviet Union. Some songs from NRM's debut album, ''LaLaLaLa'', were performed by Mroja as early as 1990. Like several other bands that sing in Belarus, they have expressed their opposition to President Alexander Lukashenko, although they have never mentioned him by name in their lyrics. N.R.M.'s largest crowd was in Kiev in 2004, when they played in support of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, with band members expressing their hope that something similar would happen in their own country. During this years N.R.M., along with many other Belarusian bands, was unofficially banned from FM station broadcast in Belarus. There is no written blacklist, but FM station managers have said they received unofficial "recommendations" from the authorities. Within the next three years the group continued active its concert activity. Numerous performances abroad took place in Poland, Germany, Slovakia, Sweden. In their homeland, however, the group is included into the forbidden list, therefore they give concerts seldom and in underground conditions. In 2007, the long-awaited sixth studio album "06" was released. It was recorded, according to Lavon Volski, under the influence of political events of spring 2006 in Belarus. The album "06" is compiled with songs of different styles. Violoncello, mandoline, keyboard were used, which are new instruments for the group. Besides for the first time songs were sung not only by Lavon Volski, but also by other participants of the group and even children's chorus. After the meeting of Belarusian rock-musicians with the deputy head of the Presidential Administration on ideology Aleh Pralyaskouski in the end of 2007〔http://charter97.org/en/news/hottopic/11〕 the band was unbanned. In 2010, Volsky left the group, who decided to continue as a three-piece. Their next album, ''D.P.B.Č'', was released in 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「N.R.M.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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