Egor Azarkevich

Yahor Azarkevich (Belarusian: Яго́р Азарке́вiч; Russian: Его́р Азарке́вич; born 26 June 1997) is a Belarusian musician, producer and columnist. He works in different genres of electronic music, including house, techno and ambient. As a journalist, he contributes to such publications as the Russian edition of Forbes and New Eastern Europe.

Yahor gained his interest in electronic music when being 14 years old, discovering music sequencers. One year later, taught himself to play the piano. The first single Anne was released in June 2013 on the British label Pegasus Digital Records. During next months, Yahor was working on trance music: he made a dance version of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and released Minsk (Redux Recordings) on 16 December. In 2014, Yahor reentered progressive house scene with the single Black Parrot.

Since 2014, he has released three studio albums and a number of singles, working in various genres.

In June 2018, Yahor graduated from the University of Glasgow with the degree in Politics and Central and East European Studies. In autumn of the same year has embarked on the joint program in Central and Eastern European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the universities of Glasgow, Tartu and Jagiellonian University in Kraków. At this time started to write for independent media and larger entries such as Forbes Russia and New Eastern Europe.

Studio albums

Singles

2013

• Anne
• Minsk

2014

• Black Parrot
• Equilibria
• Veritas
• Ursa Minor (met Soundliner)
• Life
• Inception
• Rainfall (met Soundliner)

2015

• The Everytime
• Mars
• The Noir (met Soundliner)
• Haze (met Ayya)
• Two