Kategoria: Trupa Trupa

Of The Sun uznano za “the most unexpected revelation” 2019 roku przez brytyjski dziennik The Morning Star.

“It’s been a year of pleasant and rewarding surprises, with Polish outfit Trupa Trupa’s Of The Sun (Glitterbeats Records) being perhaps the most unexpected revelation.

Frontman and poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski has described their music as “a meditative, pessimistic thing,” adding that Don Quixote is an inspiration.

Brimming with sophisticated exploratory rock arrangements, delivered with superb musicianship, overlapping voices, beautiful guitar cadences and a spellbinding syncopation of bass guitar and drums, the sense of innovation is captivating, none more so than on the pulsating Long Time Ago.”

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להקת הפוסט-פאנק הפולנית טרופה-טרופה זוכה להצלחה בינלאומית מפתיעה עם שירים על השואה ועל פוליטיקה ● בראיון נוקב, מסביר אחד מחבריה את משיכתו לנושא – ומביע תקווה כי הגל הפופוליסטי באירופה יחלוף במהרה ● “פעם חשבתי שהרוע נשאר בעבר, אבל עכשיו הוא חוזר”

„It takes you somewhere without really going anywhere.”

Steve Lamacq, BBC Radio 6 Music

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Trupa Trupa vocalist and songwriter Grzegorz Kwiatkowski — shaped by his ancestors’ imprisonment at Stutthof concentration camp — speaks truth to power through punk poetry.

Popular Polish post-punk band Trupa Trupa rages against growing Polish nationalism, historical revisionism and international Holocaust denial.

„Trupa Trupa have not been making friends in their native Poland. They come from Gdańsk, that precariously placed city over which history has so often rolled like a tank. Their big theme is collective memory – the way it is distorted, perverted and suppressed for political ends. They have set their faces against a wave of populism, authoritarianism and the duplicity of collective amnesia. They deserve to make more friends in Britain, however. Plenty of acts are doing post-punk right now, and plenty are doing psych. But few are combining the two, which Trupa Trupa do with tautness and skill. The Beatles sing Joy Division oversimplifies them, but doesn’t misrepresent them. At their recent Brighton show they also had moments strikingly akin to Plastic Ono Band. Their sound was condensed and powerful – a muscular, precise rhythm section overlaid with a flurry of ringing guitars. The songs from this year’s Of The Sun album cut to the heart of the dark road down which historical ignorance or revisionism leads. If this doesn’t sound much fun, be assured, Trupa Trupa are above all a cracking rock group, and they played a blinder. One day, if there’s any justice, the people claiming to have attended these early gigs will far outnumber the people who actually did.”

Four out of five!

David Bennun, Metro

„Filip Łobodziński: Kim jesteś w momencie, gdy słyszysz to pytanie: muzykiem czy poetą? Czy jesteś nimi cały czas naraz, czy jednym lub drugim na przemian, czy tylko okazjonalnie wpadasz do Poezji lub Muzyki, a na co dzień Twoja tożsamość mieszka zupełnie gdzie indziej?

„The Gdansk quartet rail against rightwing hate speech – and have uncovered a dark secret about their country in the Nazi era.

Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, the singer, guitarist and co-songwriter of Polish post-punks Trupa Trupa, is thinking of home. “At first, we said that our environment had nothing to do with our music, but we were wrong,” he says of Gdańsk, the Baltic city the band hail from – and the site of the second world war’s first battle. “The city has a tragic history.”